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: Received: 5 July 2023 / Approved: 6 July 2023 / Online: 7 July 2023 (08:30:31 CEST)
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Cabrera, V.M. The Canary Islands Aboriginal Maternal Genetic Pool: Haplotype Reanalysis, New Coalescent Ages, and the Roman Mediated Settlement Hypothesis. Preprints2023, 2023070464. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202307.0464.v1
Cabrera, V.M. The Canary Islands Aboriginal Maternal Genetic Pool: Haplotype Reanalysis, New Coalescent Ages, and the Roman Mediated Settlement Hypothesis. Preprints 2023, 2023070464. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202307.0464.v1
Cabrera, V.M. The Canary Islands Aboriginal Maternal Genetic Pool: Haplotype Reanalysis, New Coalescent Ages, and the Roman Mediated Settlement Hypothesis. Preprints2023, 2023070464. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202307.0464.v1
APA Style
Cabrera, V.M. (2023). The Canary Islands Aboriginal Maternal Genetic Pool: Haplotype Reanalysis, New Coalescent Ages, and the Roman Mediated Settlement Hypothesis. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202307.0464.v1
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Cabrera, V.M. 2023 "The Canary Islands Aboriginal Maternal Genetic Pool: Haplotype Reanalysis, New Coalescent Ages, and the Roman Mediated Settlement Hypothesis" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202307.0464.v1
Abstract
Classic mitochondrial DNA phylogenetic and phylogeographic studies on the aboriginal, historical, and extant human populations of the Canary Islands have contributed to reconstructing the origin and settlement on the islands of the pre-European colonizers. The recent use of new ancient DNA targeted enrichment and next-generation sequencing techniques on new Canary Islands samples has greatly improved these molecular results, but it has also revealed significant contamination in the islands' previous aboriginal genetic pool. Following a thorough review of these cases, new phylogeographic analysis revealed the existence of a heterogeneous aboriginal population, asymmetrically distributed across the various islands, and most likely descended from a unique main settlement. These new results and new proposed coalescent ages are compatible with a Roman-mediated arrival driven by the exploitation of the purple on the Canary Islands.
Biology and Life Sciences, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
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