Ancient DNA from marine mammals: Studying long-lived species over ecological and evolutionary timescales

Annals of Anatomy

Volumn 194, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 112-120

  Foote, Andrew D ^a   Hofreiter, Michael ^b   Morin, Phillip A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Distribution; DNA substitution rate; Ecology; Evolution; Marine mammals; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FOSSIL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOLOGICAL TIME; MARINE MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SAMPLE SIZE;

ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; MAMMALS; MARINE BIOLOGY; OTTERS; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SEALS, EARLESS; WALRUSES; WHALES;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84855496491     PISSN: 09409602     EISSN: 16180402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aanat.2011.04.010     Document Type: Article

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