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  • Investigating the Global Dispersal of Chickens in Prehistory Using Ancient Mitochondrial DNA Signatures

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    Author(s)
    Storey, Alice A
    Athens, J Stephen
    Bryant, David
    Carson, Mike
    Emery, Kitty
    deFrance, Susan
    Higham, Charles
    Huynen, Leon
    Intoh, Michiko
    Jones, Sharyn
    Kirch, Patrick V
    Ladefoged, Thegn
    McCoy, Patrick
    Morales-Muniz, Arturo
    Quiroz, Daniel
    Reitz, Elizabeth
    Robins, Judith
    Walter, Richard
    Matisoo-Smith, Elizabeth
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Huynen, Leon
    Year published
    2012
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    Abstract
    Data from morphology, linguistics, history, and archaeology have all been used to trace the dispersal of chickens from Asian domestication centers to their current global distribution. Each provides a unique perspective which can aid in the reconstruction of prehistory. This study expands on previous investigations by adding a temporal component from ancient DNA and, in some cases, direct dating of bones of individual chickens from a variety of sites in Europe, the Pacific, and the Americas. The results from the ancient DNA analyses of forty-eight archaeologically derived chicken bones provide support for archaeological ...
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    Data from morphology, linguistics, history, and archaeology have all been used to trace the dispersal of chickens from Asian domestication centers to their current global distribution. Each provides a unique perspective which can aid in the reconstruction of prehistory. This study expands on previous investigations by adding a temporal component from ancient DNA and, in some cases, direct dating of bones of individual chickens from a variety of sites in Europe, the Pacific, and the Americas. The results from the ancient DNA analyses of forty-eight archaeologically derived chicken bones provide support for archaeological hypotheses about the prehistoric human transport of chickens. Haplogroup E mtDNA signatures have been amplified from directly dated samples originating in Europe at 1000 B.P. and in the Pacific at 3000 B.P. indicating multiple prehistoric dispersals from a single Asian centre. These two dispersal pathways converged in the Americas where chickens were introduced both by Polynesians and later by Europeans. The results of this study also highlight the inappropriate application of the small stretch of D-loop, traditionally amplified for use in phylogenetic studies, to understanding discrete episodes of chicken translocation in the past. The results of this study lead to the proposal of four hypotheses which will require further scrutiny and rigorous future testing.
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    Journal Title
    PloS One
    Volume
    7
    Issue
    7
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0039171
    Copyright Statement
    © 2012 Storey et al. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License CCAL. (http://www.plos.org/journals/license.html)
    Subject
    Animal Systematics and Taxonomy
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/52024
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