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Contagious cancer could have wiped out America's first dogs

Ancient-genome study finds that indigenous dogs in North and South America split from other domestic canines around 15,000 years ago.
  1. Colin Barras
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A vast population of indigenous domestic dogs once roamed the Americas, concludes one of the largest studies yet of ancient dog DNA, published in Science on 5 July1. Today, almost nothing remains of this dog family, apart from a bizarre transmissible cancer.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-05645-5

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