Whole-genome SNP genotyping unveils ancestral and recent introgression in wild and domestic goats

Pogorevc, Neža (author), Dotsev, Arsen (author), Upadhyay, Maulik (author), Sandoval-Castellanos, Edson (author), Hannemann, Elisabeth (author), Simčič, Mojca (author), Antoniou, Aglaia (author), Papachristou, Dimitris (author), Koutsouli, Pangiota (author), Rahmatalla, Siham (author), Brockmann, Gudrun A. (author), Sölkner, Johann (author), Burger, Pamela (author), Lymberakis, Petros (author), Poulakakis, Nikos (author), Bizelis, Iosif (author), Zinovieva, Natalia (author), Horvat, Simon (author), Medjugorac, Ivica (author)

After the domestication of goats around 10,000 years before the present (BP), humans transported goats far beyond the range of their wild ancestor, the bezoar goat. This brought domestic goats into contact with many wild goat species such as ibex and markhor, enabling introgression between domestic and wild goats. To investigate this, while shedding light on the taxonomic status of wild and domestic goats, we analysed genome-wide SNP data of 613 specimens from 14 taxonomic units, including Capra hircus, C. pyrenaica, C. ibex (from Switzerland, Austria, Germany and Slovenia), C. aegagrus aegagrus, C. a. cretica, C. h. dorcas, C. caucasica caucasica, C. c. severtzovi, C. c. cylindricornis, C. falconeri, C. sibirica sibirica, C. s. alaiana and C. nubiana, as well as Oreamnos americanus (mountain goat) as an outgroup. To trace gene flow between domestic and wild goats, we integrated genotype data of local goat breeds from the Alps as well as from countries such as Spain, Greece, Türkiye, Egypt, Sudan, Iran, Russia (Caucasus and Altai) and Pakistan. Our phylogenetic analyses displayed a clear separation between bezoar-type and ibex-type clades with wild goats from the Greek islands of Crete and Youra clustered within domestic goats, confirming their feral origin. Our analyses also revealed gene flow between the lineages of Caucasian tur and domestic goats that most likely occurred before or during early domestication. Within the clade of domestic goats, analyses inferred gene flow between African and Iberian goats. The detected events of introgression were consistent with previous reports and offered interesting insights into the historical relationships among domestic and wild goats.

• Language: English
• Keywords: autosomal DNA, Capra hircus, Capra ibex, D-statistics, evolutionary genomics, phylogeny
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: BF - Biotechnical Faculty
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: 15 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 33, art. e17190
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-154380
• UDC: 575:636.39
• ISSN on article: 1365-294X
• DOI: 10.1111/mec.17190
• COBISS.SI-ID: 170594051
• Publication date in RUL: 12.02.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Molecular ecology
• Shortened title: Mol. ecol.
• Publisher: Wiley
• ISSN: 1365-294X
• COBISS.SI-ID: 22959833

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: genetika, inrogresija, divje koze, domače koze, genomika, SNP genotipizacija