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Phylogeography of the Tyrrhenian red deer (Cervus elaphus corsicanus) resolved using ancient DNA of radiocarbon-dated subfossils.
Scientific reports - 24 May 2017
Doan K, Zachos F E, Wilkens B, Vigne J-D, Piotrowska N, Stanković A, Jędrzejewska B, Stefaniak K, Niedziałkowska M
Abstract excerpt
We present ancient mitochondrial DNA analyses of 31 complete cytochrome b gene sequences from subfossil red deer remains from the Tyrrhenian islands (Corsica and Sardinia) and mainland Italy in a European-wide phylogeographic framework. Tyrrhenian and North African red deer, both going back to human introductions, were previously the only red deer to harbour the mitochondrial B lineage whose origin, however,...
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