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Enzyme-free detection and quantification of double-stranded nucleic acids
We have developed a fully enzyme-free SERRS hybridization assay for specific detection of double-stranded DNA sequences. Although all DNA detection methods ranging from PCR to high-throughput sequencing rely o...
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Palaeogeographic Patterns of A. sturio
Determination of the evolutionary history of the European sturgeon is severely handicapped by its recent decline. Studying ancient biological material such as museum specimens or archaeological remains represe...
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Twelve Years of Neandertal Genetic Discoveries: State-of-the-Art and Future Challenges
The first mitochondrial DNA sequence from a Neandertal specimen was recovered in 1997. Now the completion of the whole Neandertal genome has been announced to be completed in the forthcoming months. About one ...
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A system for sex determination from degraded DNA: a useful tool for palaeogenetics and conservation genetics of ursids
In this paper, we characterise three sex-specific genes (ZFX/Y, SRY, AMLX/Y) for all eight extant bear species and propose a new, robust and accurate molecular procedure to identify the sex of bears from non-i...
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Historical presence of the sturgeon Acipenser sturio in the Rhône basin determined by the analysis of ancient DNA cytochrome b sequences
Sturgeon disappeared from the Rhône River in the mid 70’s without certitude about which species it was and about the existence of a sympatry between European sturgeon, Acipenser sturio, and Adriatic sturgeon, A. ...
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Ancient DNA Clarifies the Evolutionary History of American Late Pleistocene Equids
Hippidions are past members of the equid lineage which appeared in the South American fossil record around 2.5 Ma but then became extinct during the great late Pleistocene megafaunal extinction. According to f...
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Open AccessDNA from extinct giant lemurs links archaeolemurids to extant indriids
Although today 15% of living primates are endemic to Madagascar, their diversity was even greater in the recent past since dozens of extinct species have been recovered from Holocene excavation sites. Among th...
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Neanderthals in central Asia and Siberia
The classic frame of the Neanderthals — stocky, long-headed, with distinctive features of the skull — began to emerge around 400,000 years ago, and disappeared from hominins around 30,000 years ago. However, d...
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Morphological Convergence in Hippidion and Equus (Amerhippus) South American Equids Elucidated by Ancient DNA Analysis
Unusual equids named hippidions inhabited South America for more than 2 MY (million years). Like many other animals they succumbed to the worldwide climatic change that occurred 10 KY (thousand years) ago and ...
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Molecular phylogeny of the ETS gene family
We have constructed a molecular phylogeny of the ETS gene family. By distance and parsimony analysis of the ETS conserved domains we show that the family containing so far 29 different genes in vertebrates can...
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Male sex determination in the spiny rat Tokudaia osimensis (Rodentia: Muridae) is not Sry dependent
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Thyroid Hormone Receptor Genes of Neotenic Amphibians
Since thyroid hormones play a pivotal role in amphibian metamorphosis we used PCR to amplify DNA fragments corresponding to a portion of the ligand-binding domain of the thyroid hormone receptor (TR) genes in...
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Molecular evolutionary relationships of three genera of nesomyinae, endemic rodent taxa from madagascar
The relationships of Nesomyinae, a group of murid rodents endemic to the island of Madagascar, were investigated with two comparative molecular approaches. Compared to those of other muroid rodents representin...
