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ArticleeLife2017

Palaeogenomes of Eurasian straight-tusked elephants challenge the current view of elephant evolution.

Matthias Meyer, Eleftheria Palkopoulou, Sina Baleka, Mathias Stiller, Kirsty E H Penkman, Kurt W Alt, Yasuko Ishida, Dietrich Mania, Swapan Mallick, Tom Meijer and 11 more

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Article in eLife, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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28citing papers in PubMed
6.4field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 71 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

21 authors at 11 institutions in 6 countries.

Matthias MeyerMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropolgy, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4760-558X
Eleftheria PalkopoulouDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States.
Sina BalekaEvolutionary Adaptive Genomics, Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, Department for Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany.
Mathias StillerMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropolgy, Leipzig, Germany.
Kirsty E H PenkmanDepartment of Chemistry, University of York, York, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-6226-9799
Kurt W AltCenter of Natural and Cultural History of Man, Danube Private University, Krems-Stein, Austria.
Yasuko IshidaDepartment of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States.
Dietrich ManiaState Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt with State Museum of Prehistory, Halle, Germany.
Swapan MallickDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States.
Tom MeijerNaturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
Harald MellerState Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt with State Museum of Prehistory, Halle, Germany.
Sarah NagelMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropolgy, Leipzig, Germany.
Birgit NickelMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropolgy, Leipzig, Germany.
Sven OstritzThüringisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie, Weimar, Germany.
Nadin RohlandDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States.
Karol SchauerState Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt with State Museum of Prehistory, Halle, Germany.
Tim SchülerThüringisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie, Weimar, Germany.
Alfred L RocaDepartment of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States.
David ReichDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States.
Beth ShapiroDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, United States.
Michael HofreiterEvolutionary Adaptive Genomics, Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, Department for Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany.
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · DEHarvard University · USLower Saxony State Museum · DEThüringer Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie · DEUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · USUniversity of Potsdam · DEBroad Institute · USDanube Private University · ATNaturalis Biodiversity Center · NLUniversity of California, Santa Cruz · USUniversity of York · GB

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The straight-tusked elephants

Indexed as

Evolution, MolecularFossilsGenomicsAnimalsDNA, MitochondrialElephantsGenome, MitochondrialPhylogenySequence Analysis, DNADNA, Mitochondrialancient DNAElephas antiquusevolutionary biologygenomicsPalaeoloxodon antiquuspaleogenomes

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PMID28585920
PMCPMC5461109
OpenAlexW2623359191

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