Temporal genetic change in the last remaining population of woolly mammoth

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1692, 2010, Pages 2331-2337

  Nyström, Veronica ^a   Dalén, Love ^b,c,d   Vartanyan, Sergey ^e   Lidén, Kerstin ^a   Ryman, Nils ^a   Angerbjörn, Anders ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^e HERZEN STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY OF RUSSIA   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Genetic variation; Mammuthus primigenius; Mitochondrial DNA; Wrangel Island

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GENETIC VARIATION; HOLOCENE; LOCAL EXTINCTION; MAMMOTH; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREDATION; SURVIVAL;

MAGADAN [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; WRANGEL ISLAND;

MAMMUTHUS PRIMIGENIUS;

EID: 77956484961     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0301     Document Type: Article

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