Evangelos A. Dimopoulos

TL;DR: Results suggest that dogs may have been domesticated independently in Eastern and Western Eurasia from distinct wolf populations, and East Eurasian dogs were then possibly transported to Europe with people, where they partially replaced European Paleolithic dogs.

TL;DR: The analysis indicates that American dogs were not derived from North American wolves but likely originated from a Siberian ancestor, and form a monophyletic lineage that likely originated in Siberia and dispersed into the Americas alongside people.

TL;DR: Faunal remains from 22 eastern African sites are analysed and biomolecular techniques applied to confirm identifications of two Asian taxa: domestic chicken and black rat, supporting a late, mid-first millennium CE introduction of these species.

TL;DR: This chapter reviews how the field of paleogenomics has revolutionised, and will continue to revolutionise, the authors' understanding of animal domestication and shows how DNA, extracted from ancient substrates, has proven to be a crucial source of information to reconstruct the geographic and temporal origin of domestic species.

TL;DR: HAYSTAC is a user-friendly tool to construct databases, based on publicly available genomes, that are used for competitive reads mapping and uses a novel Bayesian framework to infer the abundance and statistical support for each species identification, and provide per-read species classification.