The trans-Saharan slave trade - Clues from interpolation analyses and high-resolution characterization of mitochondrial DNA lineages

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Harich, Nourdin ^a   Costa, Marta D ^b,c   Fernandes, Veránica ^b,c   Kandil, Mostafa ^a   Pereira, Joana B ^b,c   Silva, Nuno M ^b   Pereira, Luísa ^b,d  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d University of Porto   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESERTIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FLOW; GENE TRANSFER; INTERPOLATION; MATERNAL EFFECT; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; POPULATION MIGRATION; SETTLEMENT HISTORY; SLAVE;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ARTICLE; DESERT CLIMATE; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOROCCO; POPULATION GENETICS; SOCIAL PROBLEM;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; DESERT CLIMATE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOROCCO; SOCIAL PROBLEMS;

EID: 77951942611     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-138     Document Type: Article

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