To date, a large amount of equine genetic data has been obtained regarding (i) extant
domestic horses of various breeds from all over the world,(ii) ancient domestic horses,(iii) …

Background The climatic and cultural diversity of the Italian Peninsula triggered, over time,
the development of a great variety of horse breeds, whose origin and history are still unclear …

Background DNA target enrichment by micro-array capture combined with high throughput
sequencing technologies provides the possibility to obtain large amounts of sequence data …

Since their domestication, horses have accompanied mankind, and humans have constantly
shaped horses according to their needs through stallion-centered breeding. Consequently …

There are three native Portuguese horse breeds: Lusitano, Sorraia and Garrano. This study
compares diversity patterns of 17 protein and 12 microsatellite markers in these three as …

The role of European wild horses in horse domestication is poorly understood. While the
fossil record for wild horses in Europe prior to horse domestication is scarce, there have …

To investigate genetic mechanisms of high altitude adaptations of animals living in the
Tibetan Plateau, three mitochondrial genomes (mt-genome) of Tibetan horses living in Naqu …

Abstract Analysis of the Y chromosome is the best-established way to reconstruct paternal
family history in humans. Here, we applied fine-scaled Y-chromosomal haplotyping in …

Multiple geographical regions have been proposed for the domestication of Equus caballus.
It has been suggested, based on zooarchaeological and genetic analyses that wild horses …

The domestication of the horse in the fourth millennium BC altered the course of mankind's
future. Formerly a source only of meat, horses now became the prime mode of fast transport …