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Molecular Biology and Evolution, Vol 16, 1466-1473, Copyright © 1999 by Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution

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Nuclear DNA sequences from late Pleistocene megafauna

AD Greenwood, C Capelli, G Possnert and S Paabo
Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. alexgr@amnh.org.

We report the retrieval and characterization of multi- and single-copy nuclear DNA sequences from Alaskan and Siberian mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius). In addition, a nuclear copy of a mitochondrial gene was recovered. Furthermore, a 13,000-year-old ground sloth and a 33,000- year-old cave bear yielded multicopy nuclear DNA sequences. Thus, multicopy and single-copy genes can be analyzed from Pleistocene faunal remains. The results also show that under some circumstances, nucleotide sequence differences between alleles found within one individual can be distinguished from DNA sequence variation caused by postmortem DNA damage. The nuclear sequences retrieved from the mammoths suggest that mammoths were more similar to Asian elephants than to African elephants.
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