Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Equine herpesvirus 4 infected domestic horses associated with Sintashta spoke-wheeled chariots around 4,000 years ago
Ophélie Lebrasseur, Kuldeep Dilip More, Ludovic Orlando
The paper detects the first ancient EHV-4 genome from a 3,900-year-old horse, revealing its diversification around 4,000 years ago during the spread of Sintashta chariots.
DOI 10.1093/ve/vead087