Complete Mitochondrial Genome and Phylogeny of Pleistocene MammothMammuthus primigenius
Phylogenetic relationships between the extinct woolly mammoth(Mammuthus primigenius), and the Asian(Elephas maximus) and African savanna(Loxodonta africana) elephants remain unresolved. Here, we report the sequence of the complete mitochondrial genome (16,842 base pairs) of a woolly mammoth extracte...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:1360101 2023-05-15T17:57:41+02:00 Complete Mitochondrial Genome and Phylogeny of Pleistocene MammothMammuthus primigenius Rogaev, Evgeny I Moliaka, Yuri K Malyarchuk, Boris A Kondrashov, Fyodor A Derenko, Miroslava V Chumakov, Ilya Grigorenko, Anastasia P 2006-03 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1360101 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16448217 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0040073 en eng Public Library of Science http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1360101 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16448217 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0040073 Copyright: © 2006 Rogaev et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. CC-BY Research Article Text 2006 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0040073 2013-08-30T20:44:00Z Phylogenetic relationships between the extinct woolly mammoth(Mammuthus primigenius), and the Asian(Elephas maximus) and African savanna(Loxodonta africana) elephants remain unresolved. Here, we report the sequence of the complete mitochondrial genome (16,842 base pairs) of a woolly mammoth extracted from permafrost-preserved remains from the Pleistocene epoch—the oldest mitochondrial genome sequence determined to date. We demonstrate that well-preserved mitochondrial genome fragments, as long as ~1,600–1700 base pairs, can be retrieved from pre-Holocene remains of an extinct species. Phylogenetic reconstruction of the Elephantinae clade suggests thatM. primigenius andE. maximus are sister species that diverged soon after their common ancestor split from theL. africana lineage. Low nucleotide diversity found between independently determined mitochondrial genomic sequences of woolly mammoths separated geographically and in time suggests that north-eastern Siberia was occupied by a relatively homogeneous population ofM. primigenius throughout the late Pleistocene. Text permafrost Siberia PubMed Central (PMC) PLoS Biology 4 3 e73 |
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Phylogenetic relationships between the extinct woolly mammoth(Mammuthus primigenius), and the Asian(Elephas maximus) and African savanna(Loxodonta africana) elephants remain unresolved. Here, we report the sequence of the complete mitochondrial genome (16,842 base pairs) of a woolly mammoth extracted from permafrost-preserved remains from the Pleistocene epoch—the oldest mitochondrial genome sequence determined to date. We demonstrate that well-preserved mitochondrial genome fragments, as long as ~1,600–1700 base pairs, can be retrieved from pre-Holocene remains of an extinct species. Phylogenetic reconstruction of the Elephantinae clade suggests thatM. primigenius andE. maximus are sister species that diverged soon after their common ancestor split from theL. africana lineage. Low nucleotide diversity found between independently determined mitochondrial genomic sequences of woolly mammoths separated geographically and in time suggests that north-eastern Siberia was occupied by a relatively homogeneous population ofM. primigenius throughout the late Pleistocene. |
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Complete Mitochondrial Genome and Phylogeny of Pleistocene MammothMammuthus primigenius |
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Complete Mitochondrial Genome and Phylogeny of Pleistocene MammothMammuthus primigenius |
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Complete Mitochondrial Genome and Phylogeny of Pleistocene MammothMammuthus primigenius |
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Complete Mitochondrial Genome and Phylogeny of Pleistocene MammothMammuthus primigenius |
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Complete Mitochondrial Genome and Phylogeny of Pleistocene MammothMammuthus primigenius |
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complete mitochondrial genome and phylogeny of pleistocene mammothmammuthus primigenius |
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