Highly skewed sex ratios and biased fossil deposition of moa: ancient DNA provides new insight on New Zealand's extinct megafauna

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 5-6, 2010, Pages 753-762

  Allentoft, Morten E ^a,b   Bunce, Michael ^b   Scofield, R Paul ^c   Hale, Marie L ^a   Holdaway, Richard N ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CANTERBURY MUSEUM   (New Zealand)

^d PALAECOL RESEARCH LTD   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL RECORDS; LATE HOLOCENE; LOCAL ENVIRONMENTS; MEGAFAUNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NEW ZEALAND; NUCLEAR DNA; SEX RATIOS; SINGLE SITES; SOUTH ISLAND; SPACE AND TIME; SPECIES COMPOSITION;

BIOLOGY; DEPOSITS; DNA; GENES;

BIRDS;

BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BIRD; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; GENETIC VARIATION; HOLOCENE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MORTALITY; PALEONTOLOGY; SEX RATIO; TAXONOMY;

NEW ZEALAND;

AVES; DINORNIS ROBUSTUS; DINORNITHIFORMES; EMEUS CRASSUS; EURYAPTERYX CURTUS; PACHYORNIS ELEPHANTOPUS; PALAEOGNATHAE;

EID: 76649138589     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.11.022     Document Type: Article

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