phaidra.vetmeduni.ac.at o:2682 DOI 10.3390/d15060790 Signals of Pig Ancestry in Wild Boar, Sus scrofa, from Eastern Austria: Current Hybridisation or Incomplete Gene Pool Differentiation and Historical Introgressions? In wild boar, Sus scrofa, from Europe, domestic pig-typical ancestry is traced at varying levels. We hypothesised wild boar with pig-typical gene pool characteristics, i.e., "introgression", congregate more in peri-urban habitats, because of less shyness and better adaptation to anthropogenic stress. We used 16 microsatellites to study introgression levels of 375 wild boar from peri-urban Vienna, Austria, and rural regions in comparison to commercial slaughter pigs, Mangaliza, and Turopolje pigs. We also expected more introgression in locations of warmer climates and lower precipitation. Despite discrimination of wild boar and pigs with 99.73% and 97.87% probability, respectively, all wild boars exhibited pig-typical gene pool characteristics, mostly at a very low level. Recent hybridisation was suspected in only 0.53% of wild boar, corresponding to the current largely indoor pig breeding/rearing in the region, with no chance of natural gene exchange between pigs and wild boar. Rather, pig ancestry in wild boar stems from incomplete gene pool differentiation during domestication and/or historical introgressions, when free-ranging pig farming was common. Individual introgression levels were lower in wild boar from peri-urban habitats, possibly reflecting the largely historical absence of pig farms there. Moreover, a marginal precipitation effect, but no temperature effect on introgression was observed. The latter, however, needs to be explored further by a more comprehensive data set. eng Population; Relatedness; Inference; Software 2024-03-06T09:40:14.366Z LOMv1.0 Author BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Böheim;Denise; FN:Denise Böheim END:VCARD BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Suchentrunk;Franz; FN:Franz Suchentrunk X-ORCID:https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9862-5591 END:VCARD BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Smith;Steve; FN:Steve Smith X-ORCID:https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1318-0018 END:VCARD BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Zhelev;Chavdar Dinev; FN:Chavdar Dinev Zhelev END:VCARD BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Veličković;Nevena; FN:Nevena Veličković END:VCARD BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Djan;Mihajla; FN:Mihajla Djan X-ORCID:https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2427-0676 END:VCARD BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Dier;Helmut; FN:Helmut Dier END:VCARD BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Strauss;Verena; FN:Verena Strauss END:VCARD BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Dressler;Andrea; FN:Andrea Dressler END:VCARD BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Beiglböck;Christoph; FN:Christoph Beiglböck END:VCARD BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Posautz;Annika; FN:Annika Posautz X-ORCID:https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4924-6733 END:VCARD BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Kübber-Heiss;Anna; FN:Anna Kübber-Heiss X-ORCID:https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6096-3835 END:VCARD BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Zink;Richard; FN:Richard Zink X-ORCID:https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1286-6309 END:VCARD BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Knauer;Felix; FN:Felix Knauer END:VCARD BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Stefanović;Milomir; FN:Milomir Stefanović X-ORCID:https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6294-3782 END:VCARD https://w3id.org/kim/hcrt/scheme https://w3id.org/kim/hcrt/text Textdokument Text LOMv1.0 yes https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 application/pdf 1024170 https://phaidra.vetmeduni.ac.at/o:2682 https://phaidra.vetmeduni.ac.at/api/object/o:2682/thumbnail LOMv1.0 discipline