Nuclear gene indicates coat-color polymorphism in mammoths

Science

Volumn 313, Issue 5783, 2006, Pages 62-

  Römpler, Holger ^a   Rohland, Nadin ^b   Lalueza Fox, Carles ^c   Willerslev, Eske ^d   Kuznetsova, Tatyana ^e   Rabeder, Gernot ^f   Bertranpetit, Jaume ^g   Schöneberg, Torsten ^a   Hofreiter, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^g UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DNA; DNA SEQUENCES; GENES;

ALLELES; COAT-COLOR; NUCLEAR GENES; POLYMORPHISM;

NUCLEAR PHYSICS;

ALLELE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ELEPHANT; FOSSIL; HAIR; POLYMORPHISM;

ARTICLE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HAIR COLOR; MAMMOTH; NONHUMAN; PLEISTOCENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ALLELES; ALPHA-MSH; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; ELEPHANTS; GENOTYPE; HAIR; HAIR COLOR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 1; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 33745926818     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1128994     Document Type: Article

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8. We thank the members of our research groups and several anonymous reviewers for comments that improved the manuscript. This work was funded by the Max Planck Gesellschaft Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft Forschung und Technologie and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Sequences have been deposited in GenBank under accession nos. DQ648859 to DQ648866.