Ancient DNA sequences point to a large loss of mitochondrial genetic diversity in the saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica) since the Pleistocene

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 4863-4875

  Campos, Paula F ^a   Kristensen, Tommy ^a   Orlando, Ludovic ^a   Sher, Andrei ^b   Kholodova, Marina V ^b   Götherström, Anders ^c   Hofreiter, Michael ^d,h   Drucker, Dorothée G ^e   Kosintsev, Pavel ^f   Tikhonov, Alexei ^g   Baryshnikov, Gennady F ^g   Willerslev, Eske ^a   Gilbert, M Thomas P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION   (Russian Federation)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^f INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND ANIMAL ECOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^g ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^h UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ancient DNA; LGM; mtDNA; Pleistocene; saiga

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ANTELOPE; ARTICLE; ASIA; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; FOSSIL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; ANTELOPES; ASIA, CENTRAL; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; CLIMATE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FOSSILS; GENETIC VARIATION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

SAIGA; SAIGA TATARICA;

EID: 78449294654     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04826.x     Document Type: Article

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