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Ancient DNA from marine mammals: studying long-lived species over ecological and evolutionary timescales.
Annals of anatomy = Anatomischer Anzeiger : official organ of the Anatomische Gesellschaft - 20 Jan 2012
Foote Andrew D, Hofreiter Michael, Morin Phillip A
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Marine mammals have long generation times and broad, difficult to sample distributions, which makes inferring evolutionary and demographic changes using field studies of extant populations challenging. However, molecular analyses from sub-fossil or historical materials of marine mammals such as bone, tooth, baleen, skin, fur, whiskers and scrimshaw using ancient DNA (aDNA) approaches provide an opportunity for...
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