Genetic analyses from ancient DNA

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 38, Issue , 2004, Pages 645-679

  Pääbo, Svante ^a   Poinar, Hendrik ^a,b   Serre, David ^a   Jaenicke Després, Viviane ^a   Hebler, Juliane ^a   Rohland, Nadin ^a   Kuch, Melanie ^a,b   Krause, Johannes ^a   Vigilant, Linda ^a   Hofreiter, Michael ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

DNA damage; Domestication; Neandertal; Population history

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARCHEOLOGY; BEHAVIOR; CONTAMINATION; DIET; DNA DAMAGE; DNA SEQUENCE; DOMESTICATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HISTORY; HOMINID; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEANDERTHAL; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEDIMENT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ARCHAEOLOGY; BEHAVIOR; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEAMINATION; DIET; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MUMMIES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EQUUS QUAGGA; HOMINIDAE;

EID: 19944416873     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.37.110801.143214     Document Type: Review

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