Genotypes of predomestic horses match phenotypes painted in Paleolithic works of cave art
Por:
Pruvost M., Bellone R., Benecke N., Sandoval-Castellanos E., Cieslak M., Kuznetsova T., Morales-Muniz A., O'Connor T., Reissmann M., Hofreiter M., Ludwig A.
Publicada:
15 nov 2011
Categoría:
Multidisciplinary
Resumen:
Archaeologists often argue whether Paleolithic works of art, cave paintings in particular, constitute reflections of the natural environment of humans at the time. They also debate the extent to which these paintings actually contain creative artistic expression, reflect the phenotypic variation of the surrounding environment, or focus on rare phenotypes. The famous paintings "The Dappled Horses of Pech-Merle," depicting spotted horses on the walls of a cave in Pech-Merle, France, date back similar to 25,000 y, but the coat pattern portrayed in these paintings is remarkably similar to a pattern known as "leopard" in modern horses. We have genotyped nine coat-color loci in 31 predomestic horses from Siberia, Eastern and Western Europe, and the Iberian Peninsula. Eighteen horses had bay coat color, seven were black, and six shared an allele associated with the leopard complex spotting (LP), representing the only spotted phenotype that has been discovered in wild, predomestic horses thus
Filiaciones:
Pruvost M.:
Research Group of Evolutionary Genetics, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, 10252 Berlin, Germany
Department of Natural Sciences, German Archaeological Institute, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Bellone R.:
Department of Biology, University of Tampa, Tampa, FL 33606, United States
Benecke N.:
Department of Natural Sciences, German Archaeological Institute, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Sandoval-Castellanos E.:
Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Inst Ecol, Dept Ecol Evolutiva, Lab Genet Ecol & Evoluc, Mexico City 04510, DF, Mexico
Cieslak M.:
Research Group of Evolutionary Genetics, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, 10252 Berlin, Germany
Kuznetsova T.:
Department of Palaeontology, Faculty of Geology, Moscow State University, Moscow 119899, Russian Federation
Morales-Muniz A.:
Laboratory of Archaeozoology, Universidad Autonoma Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
O'Connor T.:
Department of Archaeology, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, United Kingdom
Reissmann M.:
Department of Crop and Animal Sciences, Humboldt University, 10115 Berlin, Germany
Hofreiter M.:
Department of Biology, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, United Kingdom
Ludwig A.:
Research Group of Evolutionary Genetics, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, 10252 Berlin, Germany
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