Prehistoric introduction of domestic pigs onto the Okinawa islands: Ancient mitochondrial DNA evidence

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 222-231

  Watanobe, Takuma ^a   Ishiguro, Naotaka ^a   Nakano, Masuo ^a   Takamiya, Hiroto ^b   Matsui, Akira ^c   Hongo, Hitomi ^d  

^a OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Sapporo University   (Japan)

^c Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Control region; Mitochondrial DNA; Molecular phylogeny; Sus scrofa

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; ASIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE INSERTION; HAPLOTYPE; HISTORY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SWINE; ANIMAL; ARCHEOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; GENETICS; JAPAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARA; INSERTION SEQUENCES; SUS; SUS SCROFA; SUS SCROFA DOMESTICA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ARCHAEOLOGY; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HAPLOTYPES; JAPAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0036308884     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-002-2320-6     Document Type: Article

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