Molecular coproscopy: Dung and diet of the extinct ground sloth Nothrotheriops shastensis

Science

Volumn 281, Issue 5375, 1998, Pages 402-406

  Poinar, Hendrik N ^a   Hofreiter, Michael ^a   Spaulding, W Geoffrey ^b   Martin, Paul S ^c   Stankiewicz, B Artur ^d,f   Bland, Helen ^d   Evershed, Richard P ^d   Possnert, Göran ^e   Pääbo, Svante ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Dames and Moore   (United States)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f Shell E and P Technology Co   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIET; FECES; PALEOECOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARTICLE; CROSS LINKING; DIET; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES; GENE AMPLIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIET; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, PLANT; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FECES; FOSSILS; MAILLARD REACTION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SLOTHS; THIAZOLES;

UNITED STATES, NEVADA, GYPSUM CAVE;

EID: 0032540901     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.281.5375.402     Document Type: Article

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