Broad maternal geographic origin of domestic sheep in Anatolia and the Zagros

Charlotte Her; Hamid Reza Rezaei; Sandrine Hughes; Saeid Naderi; Marilyne Duffraisse; Marjan Mashkour; Hamid Reza Naghash; Adrian Bălășescu; Gordon Luikart; Steve Jordan; Deniz Özüt; Aykut Kence; Michael W. Bruford; Anne Tresset; Jean Denis Vigne; Pierre Taberlet; Catherine Hänni; François Pompanon

doi:10.1111/age.13191

Broad maternal geographic origin of domestic sheep in Anatolia and the Zagros

Charlotte Her
, Hamid Reza Rezaei
, Sandrine Hughes
, Saeid Naderi
, Marilyne Duffraisse
, Marjan Mashkour
, Hamid Reza Naghash
, Adrian Bălășescu
, Gordon Luikart
, Steve Jordan
, Deniz Özüt
, Aykut Kence
, Michael W. Bruford
, Anne Tresset
, Jean Denis Vigne
, Pierre Taberlet
, Catherine Hänni
, François Pompanon

Flathead Lake Biological Station

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Abstract

We investigated the controversial origin of domestic sheep (Ovis aries) using large samples of contemporary and ancient domestic individuals and their closest wild relatives: the Asiatic mouflon (Ovis gmelini), the urial (Ovis vignei) and the argali (Ovis ammon). A phylogeny based on mitochondrial DNA, including 213 new cytochrome-b sequences of wild Ovism confirmed that O. gmelini is the maternal ancestor of sheep and precluded mtDNA contributions from O. vignei (and O. gmelini × O. vignei hybrids) to domestic lineages. We also produced 54 new control region sequences showing shared haplogroups (A, B, C and E) between domestic sheep and wild O. gmelini which localized the domestication center in eastern Anatolia and central Zagros, excluding regions further east where exclusively wild haplogroups were found. This overlaps with the geographic distribution of O. gmelini gmelini, further suggesting that the maternal origin of domestic sheep derives from this subspecies. Additionally, we produced 57 new CR sequences of Neolithic sheep remains from a large area covering Anatolia to Europe, showing the early presence of at least three mitochondrial haplogroups (A, B and D) in Western colonization routes. This confirmed that sheep domestication was a large-scale process that captured diverse maternal lineages (haplogroups).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	452-459
Number of pages	8
Journal	Animal Genetics
Volume	53
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/age.13191
State	Published - Jun 2022

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We would like to thank Benjamin Gillet and Bénédicte Bertrand for help with the ancient DNA experiments. We also are grateful to all of the archaeozoologists who helped to obtain the ancient sheep samples, in particular to Daniel Helmer, Lenka Kovacikova, Rose‐Marie Arbogast and Joris Peters. We would also like to thank our fellow archaeologists who allowed us access to the archaeozoological materials from Armenia (Ruben Badalyan and Christine Chataigner) and Romania (Radian Andreescu, Pavel Mirea, Dragomir Popovici, Valentin Parnic, Cătălin Bem and Florin Vlad). This study has been supported by a grant from the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (Project Chronobos, ANR 05‐GANI‐004‐02).

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ANR 05‐GANI‐004‐02

Keywords

ancient DNA
animal domestication
area of early domestication
maternal genetic origins
mitochondrial DNA
phylogeny
sheep ancestor
wild sheep

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Her, C., Rezaei, H. R., Hughes, S., Naderi, S., Duffraisse, M., Mashkour, M., Naghash, H. R., Bălășescu, A., Luikart, G., Jordan, S., Özüt, D., Kence, A., Bruford, M. W., Tresset, A., Vigne, J. D., Taberlet, P., Hänni, C., & Pompanon, F. (2022). Broad maternal geographic origin of domestic sheep in Anatolia and the Zagros. Animal Genetics, 53(3), 452-459. https://doi.org/10.1111/age.13191

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