Microsatellite genotyping reveals end-Pleistocene decline in mammoth autosomal genetic variation

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 3391-3402

  Nyström, Veronica ^a,b   Humphrey, Joanne ^c   Skoglund, Pontus ^d   McKeown, Niall J ^c,e   Vartanyan, Sergey ^f   Shaw, Paul W ^c,e   Lidén, Kerstin ^a   Jakobsson, Mattias ^d,g   Barnes, Ian ^c   Angerbjörn, Anders ^a   Lister, Adrian ^h   Dalén, Love ^b,c  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f Russian Academy of Sciences   (Russian Federation)

^g UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^h DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ancient DNA; extinction; glaciation; Mammuthus primigenius; megafauna; palaeogenetics

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FOSSIL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MAMMOTH; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOSSILS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; MAMMOTHS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIBERIA;

MAMMUTHUS PRIMIGENIUS;

EID: 84863725612     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05525.x     Document Type: Article

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