Deeply divergent archaic mitochondrial genome provides lower time boundary for African gene flow into Neanderthals

Posth, Cosimo; Wißing, Christoph; Kitagawa, Keiko; Pagani, Luca; van Holstein, Laura; Racimo, Fernando; Wehrberger, Kurt; J. Conard, Nicholas; Joachim Kind, Claus; Bocherens, Hervé; Krause, Johannes

doi:10.1038/ncomms16046

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Deeply divergent archaic mitochondrial genome provides lower time boundary for African gene flow into Neanderthals

Published in Nature Communications • Jul 4, 2017

Authors:

Cosimo Posth

Christoph Wißing

Keiko Kitagawa

Abstract

Ancient DNA is revealing new insights into the genetic relationship between Pleistocene hominins and modern humans. Nuclear DNA indicated Neanderthals as a sister group of Denisovans after diverging from modern humans. However, the closer affinity of the Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) to mode...

Subject

Neanderthal

Mitochondrial DNA

Introgression

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