Aboriginal mitogenomes reveal 50,000 years of regionalism in Australia

Nature

Volumn 544, Issue 7649, 2017, Pages 180-184

  Tobler, Ray ^a   Rohrlach, Adam ^a   Soubrier, Julien ^a,b   Bover, Pere ^a   Llamas, Bastien ^a   Tuke, Jonathan ^a   Bean, Nigel ^a   Abdullah Highfold, Ali ^c   Agius, Shane ^c   O'Donoghue, Amy ^c   O'Loughlin, Isabel ^c   Sutton, Peter ^a,c   Zilio, Fran ^c   Walshe, Keryn ^c   Williams, Alan N ^d   Turney, Chris S M ^d   Williams, Matthew ^a,e   Richards, Stephen M ^a   Mitchell, Robert J ^f   Kowal, Emma ^g   Stephen, John R ^a   Williams, Lesley ^h   Haak, Wolfgang ^a,i   Cooper, Alan ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b Genetics and Molecular Pathology   (Australia)

^c SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^d Climate Change Research Centre   (Australia)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^h Waite Research Precinct ^*  (Australia)

ⁱ Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CULTURAL CHANGE; GENOME; HAIR; HOLOCENE; LANGUAGE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION; REGIONALISM;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HAIR; HAPLOTYPE; HOLOCENE; HUMAN; MIGRATION; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASHORE; UPPER PLEISTOCENE; AUSTRALIA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; GENETICS; HISTORY; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP;

NEW GUINEA;

AUSTRALIA; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; HAPLOTYPES; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

EID: 85027942753     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature21416     Document Type: Article

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