Sep 2026
Ancient introgression drives wild boar expansion and phenotypic diversification of domestic pigs.
It is demonstrated that wild boar expanded from South Asia during the Middle Pleistocene, preceded by a Pliocene introgression in South Asia from an archaic Suinae lineage that introduced a ~43 megabase X-chromosomal haplotype into the ancestral wild boar population.
Jian-Hai Chen, Xiao-Yong Du, Zhu-Qing Zheng et al.
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