Genetic Structure and Extinction of the Woolly Mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius

Current Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1072-1075

  Barnes, Ian ^a   Shapiro, Beth ^b   Lister, Adrian ^c,d   Kuznetsova, Tatiana ^e   Sher, Andrei ^f   Guthrie, Dale ^g   Thomas, Mark G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^e MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^f SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION   (Russian Federation)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

EVO_ECOL

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ELEPHANT; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELEPHANTS; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOSSILS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIBERIA;

MAMMALIA; MAMMUTHUS PRIMIGENIUS;

EID: 34250164597     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.05.035     Document Type: Article

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