Ancient DNA evidence for old world origin of New World dogs

Science

Volumn 298, Issue 5598, 2002, Pages 1613-1616

  Leonard, Jennifer A ^a,f   Wayne, Robert K ^a   Wheeler, Jane ^b   Valadez, Raúl ^c   Guillén, Sonia ^d   Vilà, Carles ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b c o CONOPA Instituto de Investigación y Desarrollo de Camélidos Sudamericanos   (Peru)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^d The Bioanthropology Foundation Peru   (Peru)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING;

DNA;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

CANID; EVOLUTION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYLOGENETICS; PLEISTOCENE;

ARTICLE; BREEDING; DNA SEQUENCE; DOG; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

ALASKA; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BOLIVIA; BREEDING; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DOGS; EUROPE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; PERU; PHYLOGENY; TIME; WOLVES;

CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037159766     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1076980     Document Type: Article

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