Deciphering past human population movements in Oceania: Provably optimal trees of 127 mtDNA genomes

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1966-1975

  Pierson, Melanie J ^a,b   Martinez Arias, Rosa ^c   Holland, Barbara R ^a   Gemmell, Neil J ^b   Hurles, Matthew E ^d   Penny, David ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human; MMS; mtDNA; Oceania; Prehistory

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MINMAX SQUEEZE APPROACH; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PACIFIC ISLANDS; POPULATION MIGRATION; RELIABILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TAIWAN; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OCEANIA; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33748787438     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msl063     Document Type: Article

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