Mitochondrial lineages reveal intense gene flow between Iberian wild boars and South Iberian pig breeds

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2012

Authors

van Asch, B (Author) Other; Pereira, F (Author) Other; Santos, LS (Author) Other; Carneiro, J (Author) Other; Santos, N (Author) Other; Amorim, A (Author) FCUP

Journal

Title: Animal Genetics

Vol. 43

Pages: 35-41

ISSN: 0268-9146

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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ISI Web of Knowledge - 25 Citations

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Scientific classification

FOS: Agrarian Sciences > Animal and Dairy science

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-002-DNP

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2052.2011.02222.x

Abstract (EN): The phylogeography of wild boars (WB) and domestic pigs (Sus scrofa) has contributed important insights into where and when domestication occurred. The geographic distribution of two core haplotypes (E1a and E1c) of the main European phylogenetic clade suggests that Central Europe was an early domestication centre, although the complexity of the pattern does not exclude the possibility that multiple domestication events occurred in different regions. To investigate the relationships among WB and domestic pig breeds in Iberia, a fragment of the mitochondrial DNA control region from a large sample (n = 409) of WB and local pig breeds was co-analysed with published sequences from other European populations. The Iberian sample revealed a high frequency of a sub-cluster (E1c) of the European haplogroup E1 in 77% of total Iberian samples, 96% of WB, 90% of Alentejano (Portugal) and 87% of Iberian breed pigs (Spain; Black Hairy, Black Hairless and Red varieties). Low genetic distance (FST = 0.105) was observed between Alentejano (Portugal) and Iberian breed pigs (Spain). Alentejano and Iberian breed pigs showed low genetic distances to both Iberian and Central European WB (average FST = 0.345 and 0.215, respectively). This pattern suggests that early pig husbandry in the Iberian Peninsula did not solely rely on imported Central European stock, but also included the recruitment of local WB.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 7