| paleogenomics in a temperate environment: shotgun sequencing from an extinct mediterranean caprine. | background: numerous endemic mammals, including dwarf elephants, goats, hippos and deers, evolved in isolation in the mediterranean islands during the pliocene and pleistocene. most of them subsequently became extinct during the holocene. recently developed high-throughput sequencing technologies could provide a unique tool for retrieving genomic data from these extinct species, making it possible to study their evolutionary history and the genetic bases underlying their particular, sometimes un ... | 2009 | 19461892 |
| paleoparasitological analysis of the extinct myotragus balearicus bate 1909 (artiodactyla, caprinae) from mallorca (balearic islands, western mediterranean). | myotragus balearicus (artiodactyla, caprinae) is an extinct caprine endemic of the eastern balearic islands or gymnesics (i.e., mallorca, menorca and surrounding islets, western mediterranean sea). in spite of its small size, c. 50cm height at the shoulder, it was the largest mammal inhabiting these islands until the human arrival, and it had peculiar short legs and frontal vision. it disappeared between 2830 and 2210calbce. the coprolites here studied were recovered from cova estreta, in pollen ... | 2017 | 27871871 |