Nature Communications (Sep 2020)
American mastodon mitochondrial genomes suggest multiple dispersal events in response to Pleistocene climate oscillations
- Emil Karpinski,
- Dirk Hackenberger,
- Grant Zazula,
- Chris Widga,
- Ana T. Duggan,
- G. Brian Golding,
- Melanie Kuch,
- Jennifer Klunk,
- Christopher N. Jass,
- Pam Groves,
- Patrick Druckenmiller,
- Blaine W. Schubert,
- Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales,
- William F. Simpson,
- John W. Hoganson,
- Daniel C. Fisher,
- Simon Y. W. Ho,
- Ross D. E. MacPhee,
- Hendrik N. Poinar
Affiliations
- Emil Karpinski
- McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, Departments of Anthropology and Biochemistry, McMaster University
- Dirk Hackenberger
- McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, Departments of Anthropology and Biochemistry, McMaster University
- Grant Zazula
- Yukon Palaeontology Program, Department of Tourism and Culture, Government of Yukon
- Chris Widga
- Center of Excellence in Paleontology and Department of Geosciences, East Tennessee State University
- Ana T. Duggan
- McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, Departments of Anthropology and Biochemistry, McMaster University
- G. Brian Golding
- Department of Biology, McMaster University
- Melanie Kuch
- McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, Departments of Anthropology and Biochemistry, McMaster University
- Jennifer Klunk
- McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, Departments of Anthropology and Biochemistry, McMaster University
- Christopher N. Jass
- Quaternary Palaeontology Program, Royal Alberta Museum
- Pam Groves
- Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks
- Patrick Druckenmiller
- Department of Geosciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks
- Blaine W. Schubert
- Center of Excellence in Paleontology and Department of Geosciences, East Tennessee State University
- Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales
- Laboratorio de Arqueozoologia, SLAA, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia
- William F. Simpson
- Gantz Family Collections Center, Field Museum of Natural History
- John W. Hoganson
- North Dakota Geological Survey
- Daniel C. Fisher
- Museum of Paleontology and Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan
- Simon Y. W. Ho
- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney
- Ross D. E. MacPhee
- Department of Mammalogy/Vertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History
- Hendrik N. Poinar
- McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, Departments of Anthropology and Biochemistry, McMaster University
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17893-z
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 11,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 9
Abstract
Pleistocene population dynamics can inform the consequences of current climate change. This phylogeography of 35 complete American mastodon mitochondrial genomes suggests distinct lineages in this species repeatedly expanded northwards and then went locally extinct in response to glacial cycles.
