Origin of the domestic dog Neolithic dog specimens with sequences from over 5,000 dogs and wolves. These Neolithic dog specimens included a dog sample from the Early Neolithic site in Herxheim, Germany dated 7,000 YBP, one from the Late Neolithic site of Kirschbaum (Cherry Tree) Cave near Forchheim, Germany dated 4,700 YBP, and one found in the Late Neolithic passage grave at Newgrange, Ireland dated 4,800 YBP. The study calculated a mutation rate for the 7,000 YBP Neolithic dog and found that it matched the mutation rate of the Taimyr-1 specimen, and noted that this also matched the mutation rate for the Newgrange dog that
Ticks of domestic animals classification of the Acari, including the two families of ticks of importance to domestic animals is in the article Mites of livestock. "Amblyomma" species are widespread on domestic animals throughout tropical and subtropical regions. Typical "Amblyomma" species are: "Amblyomma americanum", the lone star tick of southern and eastern USA; "Am. cajennense", the Cayenne tick of South America and southern USA; "Amblyomma variegatum", the bont tick of Africa and the Caribbean (see Gallery below for photograph of female and male). A typical "Rhipicephalus" species is "Rhipicephalus sanguineus", the tropical dog tick, specialized to feed only on dogs. It is distributed globally