Data from: The palaeogenetics of cat dispersal in the ancient world

  • Claudio Ottoni (Contributor)
  • Wim Van Neer (Contributor)
  • Bea De Cupere (Contributor)
  • Julien Daligault (Contributor)
  • Silvia Guimaraes (Contributor)
  • Joris Peters (Contributor)
  • Nikolai Spassov (Contributor)
  • Mary E. Prendergast (Contributor)
  • Nicole Boivin (Contributor)
  • Arturo Morales-Muniz (Contributor)
  • Adrian Bălăşescu (Contributor)
  • Cornelia Becker (Contributor)
  • Norbert Benecke (Contributor)
  • Adina Boroneant (Contributor)
  • Hylke Buitenhuis (Contributor)
  • Jwana Chahoud (Contributor)
  • Alison Crowther (Contributor)
  • Laura Llorente (Contributor)
  • Nina Manaseryan (Contributor)
  • Herve Monchot (Contributor)
  • Vedat Onart (Contributor)
  • Marta Osypińska (Contributor)
  • Olivier Putelat (Contributor)
  • Erendira M. Quintana Morales (Contributor)
  • Jacqueline Studer (Contributor)
  • Ursula Wierer (Contributor)
  • Ronny Decorte (Contributor)
  • Thierry Grange (Contributor)
  • Eva-Maria Geigl (Contributor)

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The cat has long been important to human societies as a pest-control agent, object of symbolic value and companion animal, but little is known about its domestication process and early anthropogenic dispersal. Here we show, using ancient DNA analysis of geographically and temporally widespread archaeological cat remains, that both the Near Eastern and Egyptian populations of Felis silvestris lybica contributed to the gene pool of the domestic cat at different historical times. While the cat’s worldwide conquest began during the Neolithic period in the Near East, its dispersal gained momentum during the Classical period, when the Egyptian cat successfully spread throughout the Old World. The expansion patterns and ranges suggest dispersal along human maritime and terrestrial routes of trade and connectivity. A coat-colour variant was found at high frequency only after the Middle Ages, suggesting that directed breeding of cats occurred later than with most other domesticated animals.,Cat mtDNA fragmentsNine ND5 gene fragments were amplified via multiplex PCR and either sequenced by NGS in bulk following the “aMPlex Torrent” workflow, or reamplified individually by nested PCR and sequenced by pyrosequencing (see Ottoni et al, 2017, Nature Ecol Evol in press). The nine sequences obtained by “aMPlex Torrent” for each specimen were concatenated using a 10 N intervening spacer. For the specimen sequences that were obtained only by pyrosequencing, the N spacer was extended to allow alignment of all sequences. The coordinates of the fragments, excluding primers, numbered according to the Felis silvestris mtDNA reference sequence (NC001700) are: Frag_7: 12918-12961; Frag_2: 13052-13102; Frag_8: 13263-13333; Frag_3: 13513-13569; Frag_4: 13746-13807; Frag_1: 13945-13980; Frag_5: 14004-14012; Frag_9: 14170-14228; Frag_6: 15071-15131.cats_TOTAL_to_deposit_mtDNA_final.fastaCat Taqpep gene fragmentsThree fragments allowing genotyping of the T139, D228 and W841 codons of the Taqpep genes controlling the Macquerel or Blotched Tabby coat color pattern were concatenated for each specimen using a 10 N intervening spacer. The coordinates of the fragments, excluding primers, numbered according to the Felis silvestris Taqpep gene (LOC101101437) from the genomic sequence NC018723 are: T139: 21887-21926; D228: 22154-22180; W841: 80673-80731.cats_TOTAL_to_deposit_NUCLEAR_final.fasta,
Datum van beschikbaarheid9-mrt.-2018
UitgeverDRYAD
  • The paleogenetics of cat dispersal in the ancient world

    Ottoni, C., Van Neer, W., De Cupere, B., Daligault, J., Guimaraes, S., Peters, J., Spassov, N., Prendergast, M. E., Boivin, N., Morales-Muniz, A., Balasescu, A., Becker, C., Benecke, N., Boroneant, A., Buitenhuis, H., Chahoud, J., Crowther, A., Llorente, L., Manaseryan, N. & Monchot, H. & 9 anderen, Onar, V., Osypinska, M., Putelat, O., Morales, E. M. Q., Studer, J., Wierer, U., Decorte, R., Grange, T. & Geigl, E.-M., jul.-2017, In: Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1, 7, 7 blz., 0139.

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