BMC Evolutionary Biology

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Genetic variation at hair length candidate genes in elephants and the extinct woolly mammoth

Alfred L Roca1*, Yasuko Ishida1, Nikolas Nikolaidis2, Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis3, Stephen Fratpietro4, Kristin Stewardson4, Shannon Hensley5, Michele Tisdale5, Gennady Boeskorov6 and Alex D Greenwood5*

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA

2 Department of Biological Science, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, California State University at Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92834, USA

3 Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024, USA

4 Paleo-DNA Laboratory, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON P7B 5E1, Canada

5 Department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529, USA

6 Institute for Diamond and Precious Metals Geology, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Yakutsk, Russian Federation

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9:232 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-232

Published: 11 September 2009

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Supplementary information for laboratory and analytical procedures. Ancient DNA laboratory procedures, elephant and mammoth FGF5 primer sequences, FGF5 sequence properties and phylogenetic analysis, and mammoth FGF5 clone sequences.

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