Sabine Felkel

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: Fine-scaled Y-chromosomal haplotyping in horses with biallelic markers is applied and the potential of the approach to address the ancestry of sire lines is demonstrated and a historic controversy over the parentage of the horse ‘Galopin’ is resolved.

TL;DR: The haplotype network resulting from single copy MSY variants using the assembly as a reference revealed sufficient resolution to trace individual male lines in this species and revealed a Y-phylogenetic network with seven haplotypes.

TL;DR: It is concluded that the deep splitting Asian Y haplotypes are remnants of a far more diverse ancient horse population, whose haplotypes were lost in other lineages.