Genetic Structure of the Western and Eastern African Sahel/Savannah Belt and the Role of Nomadic Pastoralists as Inferred from the Variation of D-Loop Mitochondrial DNA Sequences
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11310/17:10379366
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.13110/humanbiology.89.4.02" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.13110/humanbiology.89.4.02</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.13110/humanbiology.89.4.02" target="_blank" >10.13110/humanbiology.89.4.02</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Genetic Structure of the Western and Eastern African Sahel/Savannah Belt and the Role of Nomadic Pastoralists as Inferred from the Variation of D-Loop Mitochondrial DNA Sequences
Original language description
This study provides deeper knowledge of the maternal genetic structure of the Sahel/Savannah belt in light of recent knowledge on the spread of agropastoral food-producing subsistence lifestyles. Both descriptive and coalescence analyses are performed on newly generated mitochondrial DNA dataset containing almost 2,000 samples. We found lower intra-population diversity measures in pastoralists than in farmers and pointed to significant differences in mating strategies between western and eastern pastoralists - higher gene flow between the Arabic pastoralists and neighboring farmers in the eastern part than between the Fulani pastoralists and their sedentary neighbors in the western part of the Sahel/Savannah belt are suggested by the results of the analyses. The findings are discussed in light of archaeological and linguistic data. It seems that while the process of divergence of the Fulani pastoralists in the west was accompanied by a loss of females to other populations, the Arab pastoralists' immigration to the Sahel/Savannah belt conversely resulted in gain of local females into this Arab population.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60102 - Archaeology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Human Biology
ISSN
0018-7143
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
89
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
22
Pages from-to
281-302
UT code for WoS article
000439963100002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85051623059