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Carles Vilà
Researcher at Spanish National Research Council
Publications - 134
Citations - 11089
Carles Vilà is an academic researcher from Spanish National Research Council. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Domestication. The author has an hindex of 52, co-authored 132 publications receiving 10171 citations. Previous affiliations of Carles Vilà include Uppsala University & University of California, Los Angeles.
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Multiple and Ancient Origins of the Domestic Dog
Carles Vilà,Peter Savolainen,Jesús E. Maldonado,Isabel R. Amorim,John Rice,Rodney L. Honeycutt,Keith A. Crandall,Joakim Lundeberg,Robert K. Wayne +8 more
TL;DR: Sequences from both dogs and wolves showed considerable diversity and supported the hypothesis that wolves were the ancestors of dogs, suggesting that dogs originated more than 100,000 years before the present.
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Genome Sequencing Highlights the Dynamic Early History of Dogs
Adam H. Freedman,Ilan Gronau,Rena M. Schweizer,Diego Ortega-Del Vecchyo,Eunjung Han,Pedro Silva,Marco Galaverni,Zhenxin Fan,Peter Marx,Belen Lorente-Galdos,Holly C. Beale,Oscar Ramirez,Fereydoun Hormozdiari,Can Alkan,Carles Vilà,Kevin Squire,Eli Geffen,Josip Kusak,Adam R. Boyko,Heidi G. Parker,Clarence Lee,Vasisht Tadigotla,Adam Siepel,Carlos Bustamante,Timothy T. Harkins,Stanley F. Nelson,Elaine A. Ostrander,Tomas Marques-Bonet,Tomas Marques-Bonet,Robert K. Wayne,John Novembre +30 more
TL;DR: It is found that none of the extant wolf lineages from putative domestication centers is more closely related to dogs, and, instead, the sampled wolves form a sister monophyletic clade, suggesting that a re-evaluation of past hypotheses regarding dog origins is necessary.
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Rescue of a Severely Bottlenecked Wolf (Canis Lupus) Population by a Single Immigrant
Carles Vilà,Anna-Karin Sundqvist,Øystein Flagstad,Jennifer M. Seddon,Susanne Björnerfeldt,Ilpo Kojola,Adriano Casulli,Håkan Sand,Petter Wabakken,Hans Ellegren +9 more
TL;DR: It is shown here that the genetic diversity of the severely bottlenecked and geographically isolated Scandinavian population of grey wolves (Canis lupus), founded by only two individuals, was recovered by the arrival of a single immigrant.
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Widespread Origins of Domestic Horse Lineages
Carles Vilà,Jennifer A. Leonard,Anders Götherström,Stefan L. Marklund,K. Sandberg,Kerstin Lidén,Robert K. Wayne,Hans Ellegren +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the mtDNA control region sequences of 191 domestic horses were analyzed and found a high diversity of matrilines, which implies an unprecedented and widespread integration of mtrilines and an extensive utilization and taming of wild horses.
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Rethinking dog domestication by integrating genetics, archeology, and biogeography
Greger Larson,Elinor K. Karlsson,Angela R. Perri,Matthew T. Webster,Simon Y. W. Ho,Joris Peters,Peter W. Stahl,Philip Piper,Frode Lingaas,Merete Fredholm,Kenine E. Comstock,Jaime F. Modiano,C. Schelling,Alexander I. Agoulnik,Peter A. J. Leegwater,Keith Dobney,Jean-Denis Vigne,Carles Vilà,Leif Andersson,Kerstin Lindblad-Toh +19 more
TL;DR: The results demonstrate that the unifying characteristic among all genetically distinct so-called ancient breeds is a lack of recent admixture with other breeds likely facilitated by geographic and cultural isolation, suggesting that studies of modern breeds have yet to shed light on dog origins.