Anadolu yaban eşeğinin arkeogenomik analizi
Journal: OpenMETU (Middle East Technical University)
Year: 2023

European wild ass (E. h. hydruntinus or hydruntines) puzzled scientists since their first discovery nearly a century ago. Taxonomy, population history, and extinction mechanisms of this species are not clear since they show a mixture of characteristics of other asses and ancient DNA research focusing on hydruntines utilized mitochondrial sequences so far. In this thesis, I present three nuclear genomes of hydruntines excavated from Iron Age Central Anatolia. The material of this work involves th