Jessica E. Thomas, Gary R. Carvalho, James Haile, Michael D. Martin, Jose A. Samaniego Castruita, Jonas Niemann, Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding, Marcela Sandoval-Velasco, Nicolas J. Rawlence, Errol Fuller, Jon Fjeldsa, Michael Hofreiter, John R. Stewart, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Michael Knapp
- One hundred and seventy-three years ago, the last two Great Auks, Pinguinus impennis, ever reliably seen were killed. Their internal organs can be found in the collections of the Natural History Museum of Denmark, but the location of their skins has remained a mystery. In 1999, Great Auk expert Errol Fuller proposed a list of five potential candidate skins in museums around the world. Here we take a palaeogenomic approach to test which—if any—of Fuller’s candidate skins likely belong to either of the two birds. Using mitochondrial genomes from the five candidate birds (housed in museums in Bremen, Brussels, Kiel, Los Angeles, and Oldenburg) and the organs of the last two known individuals, we partially solve the mystery that has been on Great Auk scholars’ minds for generations and make new suggestions as to the whereabouts of the still-missing skin from these two birds.
MetadatenVerfasserangaben: | Jessica E. ThomasORCiD, Gary R. Carvalho, James Haile, Michael D. Martin, Jose A. Samaniego Castruita, Jonas Niemann, Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding, Marcela Sandoval-VelascoORCiD, Nicolas J. Rawlence, Errol Fuller, Jon Fjeldsa, Michael HofreiterORCiDGND, John R. Stewart, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Michael Knapp |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3390/genes8060164 |
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ISSN: | 2073-4425 |
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Titel des übergeordneten Werks (Englisch): | Genes |
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Untertitel (Englisch): | a genetic approach to discover the whereabouts of the Last Great Auks |
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Verlag: | MDPI |
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Verlagsort: | Basel |
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Publikationstyp: | Wissenschaftlicher Artikel |
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Sprache: | Englisch |
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Datum der Erstveröffentlichung: | 15.06.2017 |
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Erscheinungsjahr: | 2017 |
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Datum der Freischaltung: | 19.04.2022 |
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Freies Schlagwort / Tag: | ancient DNA; extinct birds; mitochondrial genome; museum specimens; palaeogenomics |
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Band: | 8 |
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Ausgabe: | 6 |
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Seitenanzahl: | 12 |
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Erste Seite: | 164 |
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Fördernde Institution: | NERC Ph.D. Studentship [NE/L501694/1]; Genetics Society-Heredity Fieldwork Grant; European Society for Evolutionary Biology-Godfrey Hewitt Mobility Award; Rutherford Discovery Fellowship from the Royal Society of New Zealand |
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Organisationseinheiten: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Biochemie und Biologie |
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DDC-Klassifikation: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 57 Biowissenschaften; Biologie / 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie |
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Peer Review: | Referiert |
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Publikationsweg: | Open Access / Gold Open-Access |
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Lizenz (Deutsch): | CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
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