Animal domestication has fascinated biologists since Charles Darwin first drew the parallel between evolution via natural selection and human-mediated breeding of livestock and companion animals. In this review we show how studies of ancient DNA from domestic animals and their wild progenitors and congeners have shed new light on the genetic origins of domesticates, and on the process of domestication itself. High-resolution paleogenomic data sets now provide unprecedented opportunities to explore the development of animal agriculture across the world. In addition, functional population genomics studies of domestic and wild animals can deliver comparative information useful for understanding recent human evolution.

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利用古代 DNA 和古基因组学解开家畜的起源和生物学。


自从查尔斯·达尔文首次将自然选择的进化与人类介导的牲畜和伴侣动物的繁殖进行比较以来，动物驯化一直让生物学家着迷。在这篇综述中，我们展示了对家畜及其野生祖先和同类的古代 DNA 的研究如何为驯化动物的遗传起源以及驯化本身的过程提供新的线索。高分辨率古基因组数据集现在为探索世界各地畜牧业的发展提供了前所未有的机会。此外，家养动物和野生动物的功能群体基因组学研究可以提供有助于了解近期人类进化的比较信息。