Ancient DNA analyses reveal high mitochondrial DNA sequence diversity and parallel morphological evolution of late pleistocene cave bears

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1244-1250

  Hofreiter, Michael ^a   Capelli, Cristian ^b,c   Krings, Matthias ^a   Waits, Lisette ^b,c   Conard, Nicholas ^d   Münzel, Susanne ^d   Rabeder, Gernot ^e   Nagel, Doris ^e   Paunovic, Maja ^f   Jambresi, Gordana ^f   Meyer, Sonja ^a   Weiss, Gunter ^a   Pääbo, Svante ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^f CROATIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Cave bear; Genetic diversity; MRCA; Parallel evolution; Phylogeography

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BEAR; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE POOL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; POLYPHYLY; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; FOSSIL; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS;

MAMMALIA; URSUS ARCTOS; URSUS SPELAEUS;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; GENETICS, POPULATION; PHYLOGENY; URSIDAE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0036667685     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a004185     Document Type: Article

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