Molecular analysis of a 11 700-year-old rodent midden from the Atacama Desert, Chile

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 913-924

  Kuch, Melanie ^a   Rohland, Nadin ^a   Betancourt, Julio L ^b   Latorre, Claudio ^c   Steppan, Scott ^d   Poinar, Hendrik N ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^d FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Atacama Desert; Climate change; Fossil middens; Phyllotis; Phylogeography

Indexed keywords

ABROCOMA; ANIMALIA; ARTIODACTYLA; ATACAMA; AVES; LIMATUS; PASSERIFORMES; PHYLLOTIS; PHYLLOTIS LIMATUS; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA; VICUGNA VICUGNA;

CHLOROPLAST DNA; CYTOCHROME B; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 12S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHILE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES; FOSSIL; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RODENT;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILE; CYTOCHROME B GROUP; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FECES; FOSSILS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RODENTIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0036013409     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294X.2002.01492.x     Document Type: Article

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