@article {333509,
	title = {Genomic history of early dogs in Europe},
	journal = {Nature},
	volume = {651},
	year = {2026},
	month = {2026/03/25},
	pages = {986-994},
	abstract = {<p><meta charset="UTF-8" />The earliest morphologically identifiable dogs are from Europe and date to at least 14,000 years ago, although early remains are also found in other regions. The origin of early dogs in Europe, and their relationships to other dogs, has remained elusive in the absence of genome-wide data. Similarly, although dogs were the only domestic animal to predate agriculture, little is known about how the arrival of Neolithic farmers from Southwest Asia affected the dogs living with European Mesolithic hunter-gatherers. Here\&nbsp;we analysed 216 canid remains, including 181 from Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Europe. We developed a genome-wide capture approach that enriched endogenous DNA by 10\&ndash;100-fold and could distinguish dog from wolf ancestry for 141 of 216 remains. The oldest dog data that we recovered are from a 14,200-year-old dog from the Kesslerloch site in Switzerland, and we find that it shares ancestry with later worldwide dogs\&mdash;inconsistent with the hypothesis that European Upper Palaeolithic dogs derived wholly from a separate domestication process. The Kesslerloch dog already displays more affinity to Mesolithic, Neolithic and present-day European dogs than to Asian dogs, demonstrating that dog genetic diversification had started well before 14,200 years ago. We find a Neolithic influx of Southwest Asian ancestry into Europe, but this seems to have been of smaller magnitude than in humans, suggesting that Mesolithic dogs contributed substantially to Neolithic, and, ultimately, probably also modern, European dogs.</p>
},
	isbn = {0028-08361476-4687},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10112-7},
	url = {https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10112-7},
	author = {Bergstr{\"o}m, Anders and Furtw{\"a}ngler, Anja and Johnston, Sarah and Rosengren, Erika and Breidenstein, Abagail and Booth, Thomas and McCabe, Jesse B. and Peto, Jessica and Williams, Mia and Kelly, Monica and Tait, Frankie and Baumann, Chris and Radzeviciute, Rita and Barrington, Christopher and Anastasiadou, Kyriaki and Gilardet, Alexandre and Glocke, Isabelle and Sherman, Mattias and Brativnyk, Anastasia and Herbig, Alexander and Pr{\"u}fer, Kay and Pfrengle, Saskia and Gretzinger, Joscha and Feuerborn, Tatiana R. and Reiter, Ella and Linderholm, Anna and Charlton, Sophy and Racimo, Fernando and Mikkola, Lea and Anderson-Whymark, Hugo and Baird, Douglas and Gotfredsen, Anne Birgitte and Bocherens, Herv{\'e} and Bridault, Anne and Brocke, Rainer and Drucker, Doroth{\'e}e G. and Fairbairn, Andrew S. and Frantz, Laurent and Gasparyan, Boris and Giemsch, Liane and Germonpr{\'e}, Mietje and Janssens, Luc and Kandel, Andrew W. and Kj{\ae}r, Kurt and L{\'a}zni{\v c}kov{\'a}-Galetov{\'a}, Martina and Loponte, Daniel and Magnell, Ola and Martin, Louise and M{\"u}nzel, Susanne C. and Mustafao{\u g}lu, G{\"o}khan and M{\r a}ge, Bj{\o}rnar and Perri, Angela and Pfenninger, Franziska and Robl{\'\i}{\v c}kov{\'a}, Martina and Roman-Binois, Annelise and Sar{\i}ta{\c s}, {\"O}zlem and Sch{\"a}ppi, Katharina and Sheridan, J. Alison and Sj{\"o}gren, Karl-G{\"o}ran and Stor{\r a}, Jan and S{\o}rensen, Lasse Vilien and Tafelmaier, Yvonne and Ter-Nedden, Florian and Thalmann, Olaf and Larson, Greger and Schuenemann, Verena J. and Krause, Johannes and Skoglund, Pontus}
}
