Charleen Gaunitz

TL;DR: Data indicate that Przewalski’s horses are the feral descendants of horses herded at Botai and not truly wild horses, which indicates that a massive genomic turnover underpins the expansion of the horse stock that gave rise to modern domesticates, which coincides with large-scale human population expansions during the Early Bronze Age.

TL;DR: This extensive dataset allows us to assess the modern legacy of past equestrian civilizations and finds that two extinct horse lineages existed during early domestication, and the development of modern breeding impacted genetic diversity more dramatically than the previous millennia of human management.

TL;DR: Early domestication selection patterns supporting the neural crest hypothesis are found, which provides a unified developmental origin for common domestic traits and reveals that Iron Age Scythian steppe nomads implemented breeding strategies involving no detectable inbreeding and selection for coat-color variation and robust forelimbs.

TL;DR: It is shown that methods based on the purification of DNA fragments using silica columns are more advantageous than in solution methods and provide a cost‐effective solution for downstream applications, including DNA sequencing on HTS platforms.

TL;DR: Experimental parameters that could impact the efficacy of MYbaits in‐solution capture assays of ~5000 nuclear loci or the whole genome are explored and it is found that varying quantities of the starting probes had only moderate effect on capture outcomes.