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Holarctic genetic structure and range dynamics in the woolly mammoth

Eleftheria Palkopoulou1, Love Dalén, Adrian M Lister

  • 1Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History, , 10405 Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, , Stockholm 10691, Sweden, Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, , London SW7 5BD, UK, Northeast Interdisciplinary Research Institute, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, , Magadan 685000, Russia, Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint-Petersburg 199034, Russia, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, , Moscow 119071, Russia, Department of Forest Mycology and Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, , 10691 Uppsala, Sweden, Operational Direction 'Earth and History of Life', Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, , Vautierstraat 29, 1000 Brussels, Belgium, School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, , Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK.

Proceedings. Biological Sciences
|September 13, 2013
PubMed
Summary

Ancient DNA reveals woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) population dynamics across the Holarctic. A new European lineage emerged and vanished, with significant expansions and a major decline in the Late Pleistocene.

Keywords:
Mammuthus primigeniusancient DNAclimateextinctionrefugia

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