BMC Evolutionary Biology

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Tracing the first steps of American sturgeon pioneers in Europe

Arne Ludwig1*, Ursula Arndt1,2,3, Sebastian Lippold1, Norbert Benecke4, Lutz Debus5, Timothy L King6 and Shuichi Matsumura7,8

Author Affiliations

1 Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Evolutionary Genetics, 12561 Berlin, Germany

2 Palaeogenetics Laboratory, Johannes Gutenberg University, 55118 Mainz, Germany

3 Simon Fraser University, Department for Archaeology, Burnaby, BC, Canada

4 German Archaeological Institute, Department of Eurasia, Im Dol 2-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany

5 Aquaculture, Forstweg 1, 31582 Nienburg/Weser, Germany

6 United States Geological Survey, Leetown Science Center, 11649 Leetown Road, Kearneysville, West Virginia, 25430, USA

7 International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria

8 Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, 12567 Berlin, Germany

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:221 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-221

Published: 29 July 2008

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Alignment of partial d-loop sequences of A. sturio (As) and A. oxyrinchus (Ao) (haplotypes AodF-AodK were taken from Ong et al. 1996, Copeia 1996(2):464–9; no accession numbers are archived in Genbank).

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