Typing single polymorphic nucleotides in mitochondrial DNA as a way to access Middle Pleistocene DNA

Biology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 601-603

  Valdiosera, Cristina ^a   García, Nuria ^a,b,c   Dalén, Love ^a,d   Smith, Colin ^e,h,i   Kahlke, Ralf Dietrich ^f   Lidén, Kerstin ^d   Angerbjörn, Anders ^d   Arsuaga, Juan Luis ^a,b   Götherström, Anders ^a,g  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^f SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

^g UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^h DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Atapuerca; Evolution; Ursidae

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANCESTRY; BEAR; CLADISTICS; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PERMAFROST; PHYLOGENY; PLEISTOCENE; SKELETAL REMAINS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEAR; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENE TARGETING; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

URSIDAE; URSUS; URSUS SPELAEUS;

EID: 33845595152     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0515     Document Type: Article

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