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@misc{item_3254049,
title = {{Genomic and dietary transitions during the Mesolithic and Early Neolithic in Sicily}},
author = {Loosdrecht, Marieke Sophia van de and Mannino, Marcello A. and Talamo, Sahra and Villalba-Mouco, Vanessa and Posth, Cosimo and Aron, Franziska and Brandt, Guido and Burri, Marta and Freund, C{\"a}cilia and Radzeviciute, Rita and Stahl, Raphaela and Wissgott, Antje and Klausnitzer, Lysann and Nagel, Sarah and Meyer, Matthias and Tagliacozzo, Antonio and Piperno, Marcello and Tusa, Sebastiano and Collina, Carmine and Schimmenti, Vittoria and Salvo, Rosaria Di and Pr{\"u}fer, Kay and Hublin, Jean-Jacques and Schiffels, Stephan and Jeong, Choongwon and Haak, Wolfgang and Krause, Johannes},
language = {eng},
url = {https://www.biorxiv.org/},
doi = {10.1101/2020.03.11.986158},
year = {2020},
abstract = {{Southern Italy is a key region for understanding the agricultural transition in the Mediterranean due to its central position. We present a genomic transect for 19 prehistoric Sicilians that covers the Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic period. We find that the Early Mesolithic hunter-gatherers (HGs) are a highly drifted sister lineage to Early Holocene western European HGs, whereas a quarter of the Late Mesolithic HGs ancestry is related to HGs from eastern Europe and the Near East. This indicates substantial gene flow from (south-)eastern Europe between the Early and Late Mesolithic. The Early Neolithic farmers are genetically most similar to those from the Balkan and Greece, and carry only a maximum of {\textasciitilde}7{\textpercent} ancestry from Sicilian Mesolithic HGs. Ancestry changes match changes in dietary profile and material culture, except for two individuals who may provide tentative initial evidence that HGs adopted elements of farming in Sicily.}},
journal = {{bioRxiv}},
eid = {986158},
}