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

The straight-tusked elephants Palaeoloxodon spp. were widespread across Eurasia during the Pleistocene. Phylogenetic reconstructions using morphological traits have grouped them with Asian elephants (Elephas maximus), and many paleontologists place Palaeoloxodon within Elephas. Here, we report the r...

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Autores principales: Meyer, Matthias, Palkopoulou, Eleftheria, Baleka, Sina, Stiller, Mathias, Penkman, Kirsty E H, Alt, Kurt W, Ishida, Yasuko, Mania, Dietrich, Mallick, Swapan, Meijer, Tom, Meller, Harald, Nagel, Sarah, Nickel, Birgit, Ostritz, Sven, Rohland, Nadin, Schauer, Karol, Schüler, Tim, Roca, Alfred L, Reich, David, Shapiro, Beth, Hofreiter, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2017
Materias:
Genomics and Evolutionary Biology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5461109/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28585920
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.25413

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5461109/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28585920
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.25413

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