Historical DNA analysis reveals living descendants of an extinct species of Galápagos tortoise

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 40, 2008, Pages 15464-15469

  Poulakakis, Nikos ^a   Glaberman, Scott ^a   Russello, Michael ^a,b   Beheregaray, Luciano B ^c   Ciofi, Claudio ^d   Powell, Jeffrey R ^a   Caccone, Adalgisa ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conservation genetics; Cryptic diversity; Evolution; Hybridization; Phylogenetics

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; DATA ANALYSIS; DNA DETERMINATION; EXTINCT SPECIES; GALAPAGOS TORTOISE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HISTORY; INFORMATION CENTER; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECUADOR; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TURTLES;

ELEPHANTOPUS; GEOCHELONE; GEOCHELONE NIGRA; TESTUDINIDAE;

EID: 55749111066     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0805340105     Document Type: Article

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