Publication in Molecular Ecology

 

The ANGEN group has published a paper in the journal Molecular Ecology entitled "Genomic Diversity of Aurochs From a Mediterranean Ice-Age Refugium", where the results of genomic analysis of two aurochs from Šandalja Cave in Istria were presented. The samples are about 11.5 and 14.5 thousand years old, and the paper shows their genomic diversity and genetic relationships with other published ancient sequences of aurochs and cattle from Europe and Asia, which span the period from the Pleistocene to the Middle Ages. This is the first time that ancient aurochs sequences from Croatia have been made public. They significantly enrich the previously modest pool of Pleistocene aurochs sequences and represent a major step forward in the sequencing of ancient cattle and aurochs in the Balkans. You can read more in the publication itself, while the data is publicly available on our website at the following link.