Research article
Population expansion in the North African Late Pleistocene signalled by mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U6
1 IPATIMUP (Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto), Porto 4200-465, Portugal
2 Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto, Porto 4200-319, Portugal
3 Institute of Integrative and Comparative Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
4 Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1UU, UK
5 Estonian Biocentre and Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
6 Department of Statistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010, 10:390 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-390
Published: 21 December 2010Additional files
Additional file 1:
List of complete U6 and U5 samples and HV-I samples. List of complete U6 and U5 samples used in this work, and of HV-I samples for the spatial smoothing analyses.
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Phylogeny of the complete U6 mtDNA sequences. Phylogenetic tree reconstruction for 89 complete U6 sequences. Integers represent transition; only when a suffix ("A", "G", "C" or "T") is appended is a transversion indicated. Underlined nucleotide positions appear more than once in the tree. The rCRS is indicated.
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