Publications by authors named "a a Kasparov"
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- - Horses transformed human mobility, but the timeline of their domestication and integration as transport is debated, with new genetic data being used to clarify this history.
- - Analysis of 475 ancient horse genomes indicates that modern domestic horses were shaped by human intervention around 2200 BCE, after a domestication bottleneck began around 2700 BCE, leading to a significant expansion across Eurasia.
- - Evidence also suggests that there was early horse husbandry in central Asia at Botai around 3500 BCE, prior to the establishment of contemporary horse bloodlines, challenging the notion of large herds being linked to migrations around 3000 BCE.
A group of patients was found to have a special form of recurrent corneal erosion caused by types I and II herpes virus. This form represents an independent form of ophthalmic herpes - herpetic recurrent erosion (HRE) of the cornea. The herpetic etiology of recurrent corneal erosion was confirmed by the immunofluorescence study of scraping from the conjunctiva, which revealed a high concentration of the herpes simplex virus antigen.
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- The grey wolf was the first animal to be domesticated into dogs and lived through the last Ice Age when many other animals went extinct.
- Scientists studied 72 ancient wolf genomes from different places to understand how wolves were connected and how they evolved over 100,000 years.
- They found that dogs are more closely related to ancient wolves from eastern Asia, but some dogs in the Near East and Africa share ancestors with different wolves, which means there might have been several ways dogs were domesticated.
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- The domestication of horses significantly changed mobility and warfare, but modern breeds do not trace back to the earliest domestic horses found in Central Asia around 3500 BC.
- Research reestablishes the Western Eurasian steppes, particularly the lower Volga-Don area, as the origin of modern domestic horses, based on genetic analysis from 273 ancient horse genomes.
- The study finds that the spread of modern domestic horses around 2000 BC coincided with the emergence of equestrian cultures, refuting the idea that horseback riding was linked to the expansion of Yamnaya pastoralists in Europe.
Extant Canis lupus genetic diversity can be grouped into three phylogenetically distinct clades: Eurasian and American wolves and domestic dogs. Genetic studies have suggested these groups trace their origins to a wolf population that expanded during the last glacial maximum (LGM) and replaced local wolf populations. Moreover, ancient genomes from the Yana basin and the Taimyr peninsula provided evidence of at least one extinct wolf lineage that dwelled in Siberia during the Pleistocene.
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