Genome data on the extinct Bison schoetensacki establish it as a sister species of the extant European bison (Bison bonasus)
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- 作者：Pauline Palacio ; Véronique Berthonaud ; Claude Guérin…
- 关键词：Ancient DNA ; Bovinae ; Cave hyena ; Coprolite ; Crocuta crocuta ; Mitochondrial genome ; Paleogenomics
- 刊名：BMC Evolutionary Biology
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：December 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：17
- 期：1
- 全文大小：2658KB
- 刊物主题：Evolutionary Biology; Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/ Biogeography; Entomology; Genetics and Population Dynamics; Life Sciences, general;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1471-2148
- 卷排序：17
文摘
BackgroundThe European bison (Bison bonasus), now found in Europe and the Caucasus, has been proposed to originate either from the extinct steppe/extant American bison lineage or from the extinct Bison schoetensacki lineage. Bison schoetensacki remains are documented in Eurasian Middle Pleistocene sites, but their presence in Upper Pleistocene sites has been questioned. Despite extensive genetic studies carried out on the steppe and European bison, no remains from the fossil record morphologically identified as Bison schoetensacki has been analyzed up to now.