Barking up the wrong tree: Modern northern European dogs fail to explain their origin

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Malmström, Helena ^a   Vilà, Carles ^a   Gilbert, M Thomas P ^c   Storå, Jan ^d   Willerslev, Eske ^c   Holmlund, Gunilla ^b   Götherström, Anders ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b DEPARTMENT OF FORENSIC GENETICS AND FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DOG; DOMESTICATION; EUROPE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FOSSIL; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DOGS; EUROPE; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; PHYLOGENY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 41849099699     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-71     Document Type: Article

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