800 000 Year old mammoth DNA, modern elephant DNA or PCR artefact?

Biology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 55-57

  Binladen, Jonas ^a   Gilbert, M Thomas P ^a   Willerslev, Eske ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Crete; Mammoths; Nested PCR; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTIFACT; DANIAN; DNA; FOSSIL RECORD; MAMMOTH; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; ELEPHANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; ANIMAL; BONE; CHEMISTRY; FOSSIL; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NOTE; PHYLOGENY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

CRETE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ELEPHANTIDAE; ELEPHAS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BONE AND BONES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELEPHANTS; FOSSILS; MEDITERRANEAN ISLANDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 34249856093     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0537     Document Type: Article

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