The genome of the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father

Nature

Volumn 561, Issue 7721, 2018, Pages 113-116

  Slon, Viviane ^a   Mafessoni, Fabrizio ^a   Vernot, Benjamin ^a   de Filippo, Cesare ^a   Grote, Steffi ^a   Viola, Bence ^b,c   Hajdinjak, Mateja ^a   Peyrégne, Stéphane ^a   Nagel, Sarah ^a   Brown, Samantha ^d   Douka, Katerina ^d,e   Higham, Tom ^e   Kozlikin, Maxim B ^c   Shunkov, Michael V ^c,f   Derevianko, Anatoly P ^c   Kelso, Janet ^a   Meyer, Matthias ^a   Prüfer, Kay ^a   Pääbo, Svante ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^d Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f NOVOSIBIRSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BEAR; BONE; FATHER; FEMALE; GENOME; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROGENY; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; UPPER PLEISTOCENE; ALLELE; ANIMAL; GENE FLOW; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HISTORY; HOMINID; HYBRIDIZATION; MOTHER; TIME FACTOR;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; FATHERS; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENOME; GENOMICS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; MALE; MOTHERS; NEANDERTHALS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 85052909898     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0455-x     Document Type: Article

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