Sudden replacement of cave bear mitochondrial DNA in the late Pleistocene

Current Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Hofreiter, Michael ^a   Münzel, Susanne ^b   Conard, Nicholas J ^b   Pollack, Joshua ^c   Slatkin, Montgomery ^c   Weiss, Gunter ^a   Pääbo, Svante ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; BEAR; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FOSSIL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GERMANY; HAPLOTYPE; LETTER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; TOOTH;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; GENETICS, POPULATION; GERMANY; HAPLOTYPES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TOOTH; URSIDAE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

URSUS SPELAEUS;

EID: 33846953911     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.01.026     Document Type: Letter

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