Genomic DNA sequences from mastodon and woolly mammoth reveal deep speciation of forest and savanna elephants

PLoS Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Rohland, Nadin ^a,b,c   Reich, David ^a,b   Mallick, Swapan ^a,b   Meyer, Matthias ^c   Green, Richard E ^c,d   Georgiadis, Nicholas J ^e   Roca, Alfred L ^f   Hofreiter, Michael ^c,g  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^d University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^e Ishawooa Mesa Ranch   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ELEPHANT; FOREST; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MAMMOTH; MASTODON; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION SIZE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMY; ANIMAL; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FOSSIL; GENETICS; GENOME; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION DENSITY;

ELEPHANTIDAE; ELEPHAS MAXIMUS; LOXODONTA; LOXODONTA AFRICANA; LOXODONTA CYCLOTIS; MAMMUT AMERICANUM; MAMMUTHUS PRIMIGENIUS; MASTODON;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; ELEPHANTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; FOSSILS; GENOME; MALE; MAMMOTHS; MASTODONS; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DENSITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 78650472000     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000564     Document Type: Article

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