2017
DOI: 10.1111/age.12589
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New insights into the origin and the genetic status of the Balkan donkey from Serbia

Abstract: The Balkan donkey (Equus asinus L.) is commonly regarded as a large-sized, unselected, unstructured and traditionally managed donkey breed. We assessed the current genetic status of the three largest E. asinus populations in the central Balkans (Serbia) by analysing the variability of nuclear microsatellites and the mitochondrial (mtDNA) control region of 77 and 49 individuals respectively. We further analysed our mtDNA dataset along with 209 published mtDNA sequences of ancient and modern individuals from 19 … Show more

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“…The donkey breed present today in the Balkan Peninsula is the Balkan donkey, usually regarded as unselected, unstructured and traditionally managed donkey breed (Kugler, Grunenfelder & Broxham, 2008). However, according to Stanisic et al (2017), the history and the current genetic structure of the endangered and depopulated donkey population in the Balkans was much more complex than previously reported (Pérez-Pardal et al, 2014). Furthermore, genetically distinct sub-populations of the Balkan donkey, as well as new breeds that may be acknowledged (e.g., Ivankovic et al, 2002) or those that are neglected, still uncharacterized and brought to the brink of extinction, may be present in this region (Stanisic et al, 2017).…”
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“…The donkey breed present today in the Balkan Peninsula is the Balkan donkey, usually regarded as unselected, unstructured and traditionally managed donkey breed (Kugler, Grunenfelder & Broxham, 2008). However, according to Stanisic et al (2017), the history and the current genetic structure of the endangered and depopulated donkey population in the Balkans was much more complex than previously reported (Pérez-Pardal et al, 2014). Furthermore, genetically distinct sub-populations of the Balkan donkey, as well as new breeds that may be acknowledged (e.g., Ivankovic et al, 2002) or those that are neglected, still uncharacterized and brought to the brink of extinction, may be present in this region (Stanisic et al, 2017).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 91%
“…Molecular evidence supports two independent domestication events because two distinct lineages, Clade 1 and Clade 2, have been observed based on the variability of maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) Kimura et al, 2011). Molecular data also highlighted ancient Nubian wild donkey as an ancestor of Clade 1 donkeys Kimura et al, 2011), while the ancestors of Clade 2 donkeys are still unknown because the findings that they trace their origin to a relative of the Somali wild donkeys (Equus africanus somaliensis, Noack, 1884), which is probably already extinct Kimura et al, 2011), have been questioned recently by several authors (e.g., Kefena et al, 2014;Rosenbom et al, 2015;Stanisic et al, 2017;Xia et al, 2019).…”
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