Revising the recent evolutionary history of equids using ancient DNA

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

Volumn 106, Issue 51, 2009, Pages 21754-21759

  Orlando, Ludovic ^a,r   Metcalf, Jessica L ^b   Alberdi, Maria T ^c   Telles Antunes, Miguel ^d   Bonjean, Dominique ^e   Otte, Marcel ^f   Martin, Fabiana ^g   Eisenmann, Véra ^h   Mashkour, Marjan ^h   Morello, Flavia ⁱ   Prado, Jose L ^j   Salas Gismondi, Rodolfo ^k   Shockey, Bruce J ^l,m   Wrinn, Patrick J ⁿ   Vasil'ev, Sergei K ^o   Ovodov, Nikolai D ^p   Cherry, Michael I ^q   Hopwood, Blair ^b   Male, Dean ^b   Austin, Jeremy J ^b   Hänni, Catherine ^a   Cooper, Alan ^b   more..

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^d Academia Das Ciências de Lisboa   (Portugal)

^e Centre de Recherches de la Grotte Scladina and Archéologie Andennaise   (Belgium)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^g Centro de Estudios del Cuaternario de Fuego Patagonia Y Antártica   (Chile)

^h MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSIDAD DE MAGALLANES   (Chile)

^j UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL CENTRO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^k UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL MAYOR DE SAN MARCOS   (Peru)

^l MANHATTAN COLLEGE   (United States)

^m DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^o INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^p ENERGY SYSTEMS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^q STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^r UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

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Author keywords

Ancient DNA; DNA taxonomy; Equid evolution; Macroevolution; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; ASIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; HOLOCENE; HORSE; MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTH AMERICA; TAXONOMY; UPPER PLEISTOCENE;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS; EQUUS CAPENSIS; EQUUS QUAGGA; EQUUS SUBG. HIPPOTIGRIS; HIPPIDION; MAMMALIA; PERISSODACTYLA;

EID: 76049111378     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0903672106     Document Type: Article

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