Climate change and postglacial human dispersals in Southeast Asia

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1209-1218

  Soares, Pedro ^a   Trejaut, Jean Alain ^b   Loo, Jun Hun ^b   Hill, Catherine ^a   Mormina, Maru ^a,c   Lee, Chien Liang ^b   Chen, Yao Ming ^d   Hudjashov, Georgi ^e   Forster, Peter ^f   MacAulay, Vincent ^g   Bulbeck, David ^h   Oppenheimer, Stephen ⁱ   Lin, Marie ^b   Richards, Martin B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b MACKAY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d Tainan Hospital   (Taiwan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^f ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^h AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complete mtDNA genomes; Island Southeast Asia; Late glacial; Neolithic; Postglacial

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEGLACIATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HAPLOTYPE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEA LEVEL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHEAST ASIA; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HISTORY; HUMAN; ICE COVER; MIGRATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HAPLOTYPES; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; ICE COVER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 44649179942     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msn068     Document Type: Article

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