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Our researchers described the genetic identity of the oldest human-made hybrid animal called “kunga”, a 4,500-year-old equid which was bred for warfare in ancient Mesopotamia. The study concludes that kungas were hybrids between female domestic donkeys and male hemippes.
The article is authored by E. Andrew Bennett, Jill Weber, Wejden Bendhafer, Sophie Champlot, Joris Peters, Glenn M. Schwartz, Thierry Grange, and Eva-Maria Geigl.
The newest article by our researchers traces a complex demographic history in northeastern Asia, together with new research on the ancient occurence of plague-related Y. pestis. The article…
Our researchers led a successful analysis of ancient DNA from petrous bones of this extinct Mediterranean species despite the region’s notoriously adverse environmental conditions for DNA preservation. Their…
Our researchers present palaeogenomes of three morphologically unidentified Anatolian equids dating to the first millennium BCE, sequenced to a coverage of 0.6–6.4×. Mitochondrial DNA haplotypes of the Anatolian…
Researchers from Institut Jacques Monod, including our esteemed colleagues within the NEOMATRIX network, analyzed new genomes together with published ones in their latest study. It allowed them to…