Using ancient DNA to understand evolutionary and ecological processes

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 45, Issue , 2014, Pages 573-598

  Orlando, Ludovic ^a   Cooper, Alan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

adaptation; admixture; coalescent; de extinction; demography; extinction; genomics; molecular rates; museomics

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; VERTEBRATE;

EID: 84913598153     PISSN: 1543592X     EISSN: 15452069     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-120213-091712     Document Type: Article

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