Sónia Rosenbom

TL;DR: These findings resolve the long-standing issue of the role of the Nubian wild ass in the domestication of the donkey, but raise new questions regarding the second ancestor for the donkey.

TL;DR: The results support previously proposed northeast Africa as a putative center of origin for the domestic donkey, but the high levels of unique diversity in Yemen opens the possibility of considering this region as yet another center oforigin for this species.

TL;DR: This work introduces a noninvasive DNA extraction method that can be modified and adapted to recover a large amount of DNA from stool samples and concludes that this method can be used to provide DNA for a variety of downstream analyses.

TL;DR: The results highlight the importance of re-assessing the evolutionary history of ass-like equid species, and urge to extend studies at the population level to efficiently design conservation and management actions for these threatened species.

TL;DR: Investigation of mitochondrial DNA sequence polymorphism of six morphologically diverse domestic donkey populations in Ethiopia suggests that Ethiopia could be one of the centers of diversities for domestic donkeys in the Horn of Africa.