No evidence of Neandertal mtDNA contribution to early modern humans

PLoS Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Serre, David ^a   Langaney, André ^b,c   Chech, Mario ^b   Teschler Nicola, Maria ^d   Paunovic, Maja ^e   Mennecier, Philippe ^b   Hofreiter, Michael ^a   Possnert, Göran ^f   Pääbo, Svante ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MUSÉE DE L HOMME   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM WIEN   (Austria)

^e CROATIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS   (Croatia)

^f UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; FOSSIL; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE POOL; GENETIC DRIFT; HUMAN; PRESERVATION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HOMINID; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PALEONTOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 19344377078     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020057     Document Type: Article

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