Revisiting Neandertal diversity with a 100,000 year old mtDNA sequence

Current Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

  Orlando, Ludovic ^a   Darlu, Pierre ^b   Toussaint, Michel ^c   Bonjean, Dominique ^d   Otte, Marcel ^e   Hänni, Catherine ^a  

^a CENTRE DE GÉNÉTIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b HÔPITAL PAUL BROUSSE   (France)

^c Ministere de la region Wallone   (Belgium)

^d Scladina   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

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EID: 33744824347     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.05.019     Document Type: Letter

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