Genomic data from extinct north American camelops revise camel evolutionary history

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2433-2440

  Heintzman, Peter D ^a   Zazula, Grant D ^b   Cahill, James A ^a   Reyes, Alberto V ^c   MacPhee, Ross D E ^d   Shapiro, Beth ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Government of Yukon   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^e University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic; Camel evolution; Camelops; Morphology; Paleogenomics; Phylogeny; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

ALPACA; BONE; CAMEL; CLADISTICS; DROMEDARY; LLAMA; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MODEL; NORTH AMERICA; UPPER MIOCENE; UPPER PLEISTOCENE; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; FOSSIL; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CAMELS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOSSILS; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84943622979     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msv128     Document Type: Article

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