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Evolution of Tibetan wild boars

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The analysis presented by Li et al.1 in their report of the genome sequence of the Tibetan wild boar provides interesting insights into the genetic architecture of high-altitude adaptation in this species. However, despite the large volume of novel data, we found shortcomings in several parts of the study, suggesting that some specific findings presented by Li et al. result from overinterpretation of the data. In addition, several of their conclusions contradict those reported in previous analyses2,3,4,5.

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Figure 1: Evolutionary history of Sus species.

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  1. Laurent A F Frantz & Greger Larson

    Present address: Present address: Palaeogenomics and Bio-Archaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,

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  1. Animal Breeding and Genomics Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands

    Laurent A F Frantz, Ole Madsen, Hendrik-Jan Megens, Yogesh Paudel, Mirte Bosse, Richard P M A Crooijmans & Martien A M Groenen

  2. Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA

    Joshua G Schraiber

  3. Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

    Joshua G Schraiber

  4. Department of Archaeology, Durham Evolution and Ancient DNA, Durham University, Durham, UK

    Greger Larson

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Frantz, L., Madsen, O., Megens, HJ. et al. Evolution of Tibetan wild boars. Nat Genet 47, 188–189 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3197

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