Researchclopedia

Research Researchers Institutions Topics Submit About

Command Palette

Search for a command to run...

Researchclopedia

Research Researchers Institutions About

© 2026 Researchclopedia. Powered by OpenAlex under CC0 license.

Peter Savolainen | Researchclopedia

Back to researchers

Peter Savolainen

KTH Royal Institute of Technology ORCID

80

Works

6,144

Citations

30

h-index

45

i10-index

Research Topics

Human-Animal Interaction Studies Rabies epidemiology and control Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

Affiliations

Brigham Young University1997–1997

Los Alamos National Laboratory2004–2004

University of Auckland2004–2004

University of Turku2001–2001

University of California, Los Angeles1997–1997

Top Works

Multiple and Ancient Origins of the Domestic Dog

Carles Vilà,Peter Savolainen,et al.

19971,089 citations

Forensic and Genetic Research

Genetic diversity and population structure

Genetic Evidence for an East Asian Origin of Domestic Dogs

Peter Savolainen,Ya‐Ping Zhang,et al.

2002959 citations

mtDNA Data Indicate a Single Origin for Dogs South of Yangtze River, Less Than 16,300 Years Ago, from Numerous Wolves

Junfeng Pang,C. Kluetsch,et al.

2009391 citations

Out of southern East Asia: the natural history of domestic dogs across the world

Guodong Wang,Weiwei Zhai,et al.

2015386 citations

The genomics of selection in dogs and the parallel evolution between dogs and humans

Guodong Wang,Weiwei Zhai,et al.

2013324 citations

A detailed picture of the origin of the Australian dingo, obtained from the study of mitochondrial DNA

Peter Savolainen,Thomas Leitner,et al.

2004299 citations

Paternal and maternal DNA lineages reveal a bottleneck in the founding of the Finnish population.

Antti Sajantila,Abdel Halim Salem,et al.

1996228 citations

Duplication of FGF3, FGF4, FGF19 and ORAOV1 causes hair ridge and predisposition to dermoid sinus in Ridgeback dogs

N. H. C. Salmon Hillbertz,Magnus Isaksson,et al.

2007220 citations

Mitochondrial DNA data indicate an introduction through Mainland Southeast Asia for Australian dingoes and Polynesian domestic dogs

Mattias Oskarsson,Cornelya F. C. Klütsch,et al.

2011159 citations