BackgroundThe climatic and cultural diversity of the Italian Peninsula triggered, over time, the development of a great variety of horse breeds, whose origin and history are still unclear. To clarify
The European genetic landscape has been shaped by several human migrations occurred since Paleolithic times. The accumulation of archaeological records and the concordance of different lines of geneti
Mecistops and Osteolaemus sequences for all 4 mitochondrial markers. See text file "Shirleyetal_Mecistopssystematics_OTUexplanations.txt" for OTU codes. Refer to Methods text for other relevant deta