Ancient DNA analysis affirms the canid from Altai as a primitive dog

Anna S Druzhkova1, Olaf Thalmann, Vladimir A Trifonov

  • 1Department of Genomic Diversity and Evolution, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia.

Plos One
|March 14, 2013
PubMed

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