Transoceanic drift and the domestication of African bottle gourds in the Americas

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2937-2941

  Kistler, Logan ^a   Montenegro, Álvaro ^b   Smith, Bruce D ^c   Gifford, John A ^d   Green, Richard E ^f   Newsom, Lee A ^a   Shapiro, Beth ^e  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaeogenomics; Long distance dispersal; New world domestication

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASIA; ASIAN; CHLOROPLAST; CUCURBITACEAE; DOMESTICATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INDEL MUTATION; LAGENARIA SICERARIA; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENETICS; PLASTID GENOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ARCHAEOGENOMICS; LONG-DISTANCE DISPERSAL; NEW WORLD DOMESTICATION;

AFRICA; AGRICULTURE; AMERICAS; ASIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CUCURBITACEAE; DEMOGRAPHY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYLOGENY; PLASTIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 84896810700     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1318678111     Document Type: Article

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