Analysis of Mitochondrial DNA Diversity in the Aleuts of the Commander Islands and Its Implications for the Genetic History of Beringia

• Main Authors: Marie T. Lott, Douglas C. Wallace
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Sireniki; aleut; Archipelago; Bering Land Bridge; Chukotka; eskimo*; Eskimo–Aleut; Kamchatka; Sirenik*; Alaska; Beringia; Siberia
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.577.8091; http://www.bionet.nsc.ru/labs/mtgenome/Publications/Derbeneva2002_Aleuts.pdf

The Aleuts are aboriginal inhabitants of the Aleutian archipelago, including Bering and Copper (Medny) Islands of the Commanders, and seem to be the survivors of the inhabitants of the southern belt of the Bering Land Bridge that connected Chukotka/Kamchatka and Alaska during the end of the Ice Age....