Mitochondrial Genomes of Giant Deers Suggest their Late Survival in Central Europe
Alexander Immel, Dorothée G. Drucker, Tina K. Jahnke, Susanne C. Münzel, Verena J. Schuenemann, Marion Bonazzi, Alexander Herbig, Claus-Joachim Kind, Johannes Krause
The paper reconstructs mitochondrial genomes of giant deer from 12,000-year-old bones, showing their later survival in Central Europe and phylogenetic relationship to fallow deer.
bioRxiv · Feb 6, 2015Evolutionary Biology