Indentured migration and differential gender gene flow: The origin and evolution of the East-Indian community of Limón, Costa Rica

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 175-189

  Castrì, Loredana ^a   Otárola, Flory ^b   Blell, Mwenza ^c   Ruiz, Ernesto ^d   Barrantes, Ramiro ^b   Luiselli, Donata ^a   Pettener, Davide ^a   Madrigal, Lorena ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Costa Rica; East Indian diaspora; Gene flow

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AMERICA; CHINA; CHROMOSOME MARKER; COSTA RICA; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GUYANA; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PATERNALISM; POPULATION MIGRATION; SURINAME; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO; Y CHROMOSOME;

AFRICA; ASIA, WESTERN; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; COSTA RICA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; HAPLOTYPES; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 34548811955     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20652     Document Type: Article

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