Molecular dating of caprines using ancient DNA sequences of <Emphasis Type="Italic">Myotragus balearicus</Emphasis>, an extinct endemic Balearic mammal |
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| Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Carles?Lalueza-FoxEmail author Jose?Castresana Lourdes?Sampietro Tomàs?Marquès-Bonet Josep?Antoni?Alcover Jaume?Bertranpetit |
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| Institution: | 1.Unitat de Biologia Evolutiva, Facultat de Ciències de la Salut i de la Vida,Universitat Pompeu Fabra,Barcelona,Spain;2.Unitat d'Antropologia, Dept. Biologia Animal, Facultat de Biologia,Universitat de Barcelona,Barcelona,Spain;3.Department of Physiology and Molecular Biodiversity,Institut de Biologia Molecular de Barcelona, CSIC,Barcelona,Spain;4.Institut Mediterrani d'Estudis Avan?ats de les Illes Balears (CSIC-UIB),Ciutat de Mallorca,Spain |
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| Abstract: | Background
Myotragus balearicus was an endemic bovid from the Balearic Islands (Western Mediterranean) that became extinct around 6,000-4,000 years ago.
The Myotragus evolutionary lineage became isolated in the islands most probably at the end of the Messinian crisis, when the desiccation
of the Mediterranean ended, in a geological date established at 5.35 Mya. Thus, the sequences of Myotragus could be very valuable for calibrating the mammalian mitochondrial DNA clock and, in particular, the tree of the Caprinae
subfamily, to which Myotragus belongs. |
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