%0 Journal Article %A Meyer, Matthias %A Palkopoulou, Eleftheria %A Baleka, Sina %A Stiller, Mathias %A Penkman, Kirsty E. H. %A Alt, Kurt W. %A Ishida, Yasuko %A Mania, Dietrich %A Mallick, Swapan %A Meijer, Tom %A Meller, Harald %A Nagel, Sarah %A Nickel, Birgit %A Ostritz, Sven %A Rohland, Nadin %A Schauer, Karol %A Schüler, Tim %A Roca, Alfred L. %A Reich, David %A Shapiro, Beth %A Hofreiter, Michael %+ Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society Advanced DNA Sequencing Techniques, Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society Advanced DNA Sequencing Techniques, Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society %T Palaeogenomes of Eurasian straight-tusked elephants challenge the current view of elephant evolution : %G eng %U https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-002D-59D5-B %R 10.7554/eLife.25413 %7 2017-06-06 %D 2017 %8 06.06.2017 %* Review method: peer-reviewed %X DNA sequences from the Middle Pleistocene reveal that the extinct Eurasian straight-tusked elephants were closely related to today's African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) in Africa. %K Short Report Genomics and Evolutionary Biology Palaeoloxodon antiquus Elephas antiquus ancient DNA paleogenomes %J eLife %] e25413 %I eLife Sciences Publications %C Cambridge