Palaeogenomes of Eurasian straight-tusked elephants challenge the current view of elephant evolution

eLife

Volumn 6, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Meyer, Matthias ^a   Palkopoulou, Eleftheria ^b   Baleka, Sina ^c   Stiller, Mathias ^a   Penkman, Kirsty E H ^d   Alt, Kurt W ^e,f   Ishida, Yasuko ^g   Mania, Dietrich ^h   Mallick, Swapan ^b   Meijer, Tom ⁱ   Meller, Harald ^h   Nagel, Sarah ^a   Nickel, Birgit ^a   Ostritz, Sven ^j   Rohland, Nadin ^b   Schauer, Karol ^h   Schüler, Tim ^j   Roca, Alfred L ^g   Reich, David ^b,k,l   Shapiro, Beth ^m   Hofreiter, Michael ^c   more..

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^e Austria   (Austria)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^h State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology   (Germany)

ⁱ NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^j Thüringisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie   (Germany)

^k MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^l HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; ELEPHANT; FOSSIL; GENOMICS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PALAEOGENOMICS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; ANIMAL; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELEPHANTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOMICS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 85021157060     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.25413     Document Type: Article

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