Mediterranean dispersal imposed bottlenecks in Neolithic sheep and goats
Áine Halpin, Jolijn A. M. Erven, Roger Alcàntra, Conor Rossi, Andrew J. Hare, Valeria Mattiangeli, Simon Stoddart, Jarosław Wilczyński, Àngel Bosch, Raquel Piqué, Antoni Palomo, Josep Tarrús Galter, Xavier Terradas-Batlle, María Saña, Daniel G. Bradley, Kevin G. Daly
The paper analyzes palaeogenomes of Neolithic sheep and goats to show that Mediterranean dispersal caused genetic bottlenecks, reducing effective population sizes and increasing homozygosity in Iberian livestock.
bioRxiv · Jul 23, 2026 · PreprintGenomics