Nuclear DNA sequences from the Middle Pleistocene Sima de los Huesos hominins

Nature

Volumn 531, Issue 7595, 2016, Pages 504-507

  Meyer, Matthias ^a   Arsuaga, Juan Luis ^b,c   De Filippo, Cesare ^a   Nagel, Sarah ^a   Aximu Petri, Ayinuer ^a   Nickel, Birgit ^a   Martínez, Ignacio ^b,d   Gracia, Ana ^b,d   De Castro, José María Bermúdez ^e,f   Carbonell, Eudald ^g,h   Viola, Bence ⁱ   Kelso, Janet ^a   Prüfer, Kay ^a   Pääbo, Svante ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Centro UCM ISCIII para la Evolución y Comportamiento Humanos   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^e CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE LA EVOLUCIÓN HUMANA CENIEH   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEOECOLOGIA HUMANA I EVOLUCIÓ SOCIAL   (Spain)

^h UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

DIVERGENCE; DNA; GENOME; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MORPHOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIMATE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONTAMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UPPER PLEISTOCENE; X CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; FOSSIL; GENETICS; HOMINID; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPAIN;

BURGOS [CASTILLA Y LEON]; CASTILLA Y LEON; SIBERIA; SIERRA DE ATAPUERCA; SPAIN;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FOSSILS; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; HOMINIDAE; MALE; NEANDERTHALS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPAIN;

EID: 84961725717     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature17405     Document Type: Article

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