supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDA2004010302);Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research(STEP)Program(2019QZKK0501);National Natural Science Foundation of China(31860305);Sino-Africa Joint Research Center,Chinese Academy of Sciences(SAJC201611);Research Center for Ecology and Environment of Central Asia,Chinese Academy of Sciences.Y.L.was supported by the Young Academic and Technical Leader Raising Foundation of Yunnan Province;Samples used in this study were provided by the Animal Branch of the Germplasm Bank of Wild Species,Chinese Academy of Sciences(Large Research Infrastructure Funding)
Molecular studies on donkey mitochondrial sequences have clearly defined two distinct maternal lineages involved in domestication.However,domestication histories of these two lineages remain enigmatic.We therefore com...