jueves, 24 de noviembre de 2011

Dog domesticated in SE Asia (claims new study)

The authors describe this region as "Asia South of the Yangtze" (ASY) but I usually call it SE Asia, your call.

Z-L Ding et al., Origins of domestic dog in Southern East Asia is supported by analysis of Y-chromosome DNA. Nature 2011. (Fully accessed on Nov 24 as advance online publication).

The region, specially what they call SW ASY (Indochina, Guangxi and Yunnan) hosts the largest Y-DNA diversity for the domestic variant of the wolf but this is not true of East Asia north of the Yangtze, what may have confused researchers in the past. Instead the Fertile Crescent and Siberia hold the second and third largest diversity figures...

Dog domesticated in SE Asia (claims new study)

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