Ancient DNA Analysis Affirms the Canid from Altai as a Primitive Dog

• Anna S. Druzhkova ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anna S. Druzhkova, Olaf Thalmann

  Affiliation Department of Genomic Diversity and Evolution, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

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• Olaf Thalmann ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anna S. Druzhkova, Olaf Thalmann

  Affiliation Division of Genetics and Physiology, Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

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• Vladimir A. Trifonov ,

  * E-mail: vlad@mcb.nsc.ru

  Affiliation Department of Genomic Diversity and Evolution, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

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• Jennifer A. Leonard,

  Affiliation Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics Group, Estación Biológica de Doñana (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas), Seville, Spain

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• Nadezhda V. Vorobieva,

  Affiliation Department of Genomic Diversity and Evolution, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

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• Nikolai D. Ovodov,

  Affiliation Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

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• Alexander S. Graphodatsky,

  Affiliation Department of Genomic Diversity and Evolution, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

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• Robert K. Wayne

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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