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Endogenous Retroviral Insertions Indicate a Secondary Introduction of Domestic Sheep Lineages to the Caucasus and Central Asia between the Bronze and Iron Age
- Oskar Schroeder,
- Norbert Benecke,
- Kai Frölich,
- Zuogang Peng,
- Kai Kaniuth,
- Leonid Sverchkov,
- Sabine Reinhold,
- Andrey Belinskiy and
- Arne Ludwig
Sheep were one of the first livestock species domesticated by humans. After initial domestication in the Middle East they were spread across Eurasia. The modern distribution of endogenous Jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus insertions in domestic sheep breed...