A highly divergent mtDNA sequence in a Neandertal individual from Italy

Current Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 16, 2006, Pages

  Caramelli, David ^a   Lalueza Fox, Carles ^b   Condemi, Silvana ^c   Longo, Laura ^d,e   Milani, Lucio ^a   Manfredini, Alessandro ^a   de Saint Pierre, Michelle ^b   Adoni, Francesca ^a   Lari, Martina ^a   Giunti, Paolo ^e   Ricci, Stefano ^d   Casoli, Antonella ^f   Calafell, Francesc ^g   Mallegni, Francesco ^h   Bertranpetit, Jaume ^g   Stanyon, Roscoe ^a   Bertorelle, Giorgio ⁱ   Barbujani, Guido ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^e Museo Civico di Storia Naturale   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; HOMINID; HUMAN; ITALY; LETTER; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; ITALY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33747152863     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.07.043     Document Type: Letter

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