Beringian standstill and spread of Native American founders.

Native Americans derive from a small number of Asian founders who likely arrived to the Americas via Beringia. However, additional details about the initial colonization of the Americas remain unclear. To investigate the pioneering phase in the Americas we analyzed a total of 623 complete mtDNAs fro...

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Main Authors: Erika Tamm, Toomas Kivisild, Maere Reidla, Mait Metspalu, David Glenn Smith, Connie J Mulligan, Claudio M Bravi, Olga Rickards, Cristina Martinez-Labarga, Elsa K Khusnutdinova, Sardana A Fedorova, Maria V Golubenko, Vadim A Stepanov, Marina A Gubina, Sergey I Zhadanov, Ludmila P Ossipova, Larisa Damba, Mikhail I Voevoda, Jose E Dipierri, Richard Villems, Ripan S Malhi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-09-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000829