Reconciling evidence from ancient and contemporary genomes: a major source for the European Neolithic within Mediterranean Europe

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.1976" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.1976</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.1976" target="_blank" >10.1098/rspb.2016.1976</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Reconciling evidence from ancient and contemporary genomes: a major source for the European Neolithic within Mediterranean Europe

Original language description

Important gaps remain in our understanding of the spread of farming into Europe, due partly to apparent contradictions between studies of contemporary genetic variation and ancient DNA. It seems clear that farming was introduced into central, northern, and eastern Europe from the south by pioneer colonization. It is often argued that these dispersals originated in the Near East, where the potential source genetic pool resembles that of the early European farmers, but clear ancient DNA evidence from Mediterranean Europe is lacking, and there are suggestions that Mediterranean Europe may have resembled the Near East more than the rest of Europe in the Mesolithic. Here, we test this proposal by dating mitogenome founder lineages from the Near East in different regions of Europe. We find that whereas the lineages date mainly to the Neolithic in central Europe and Iberia, they largely date to the Late Glacial period in central/ eastern Mediterranean Europe. This supports a scenario in which the genetic pool of Mediterranean Europe was partly a result of Late Glacial expansions from a Near Eastern refuge, and that this formed an important source pool for subsequent Neolithic expansions into the rest of Europe.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10600 - Biological sciences

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

ISSN

0962-8452

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

284

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1851

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000397884000003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85016117668