Search Results - "Richards, M B"

Phylogeographic investigations: The role of trees in forensic genetics by Salas, A, Bandelt, H.-J, Macaulay, V, Richards, M.B

“…Abstract The human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) genome is commonly analyzed in various disciplines, such as population, medical, and forensic genetics, but…”
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Mitochondrial Portraits of Human Populations Using Median Networks by Bandelt, H. J, Forster, P, Sykes, B. C, Richards, M. B

“…Analysis of variation in the hypervariable region of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has emerged as an important tool for studying human evolution and migration…”
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Untangling Neolithic and Bronze Age mitochondrial lineages in South Asia by Silva, M., Justeau, P., Rodrigues, S., Oteo-Garcia, G., Dulias, K., Foody, G., Fichera, A., Yau, B., Rito, T., Wilson, J. F., Gandini, F., Edwards, C. J., Pala, M., Soares, P. A., Richards, M. B.

“…Two key moments shaped the extant South Asian gene pool within the last 10 thousand years (ka): the Neolithic period, with the advent of agriculture and the…”
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Phylogeography of mitochondrial DNA in western Europe by RICHARDS, M. B., MACAULAY, V. A., BANDELT, H.-J., SYKES, B. C.

“…For most of the past century, prehistorians have had to rely on the fossil and archaeological records in order to reconstruct the past. In the last few…”
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Palaeolithic radiocarbon chronology: quantifying our confidence beyond two half-lives by Pettitt, P.B, Davies, W, Gamble, C.S, Richards, M.B

“…It is now three decades since Waterbolk introduced evaluation criteria to 14C chronology. Despite this, and other subsequent attempts to introduce quality…”
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The effects of temperature on the biophysical properties of optic nerve F-fibres by Austerschmidt, Lavinia J., Khan, Azab, Plant, Dafydd O., Richards, Ella M. B., Knott, Sophie, Baker, Mark D.

“…In multiple sclerosis, exacerbation of symptoms with rising body temperature is associated with impulse conduction failure. The mechanism is not fully…”
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The Expansion of mtDNA Haplogroup L3 within and out of Africa by Soares, Pedro, Alshamali, Farida, Pereira, Joana B., Fernandes, Verónica, Silva, Nuno M., Afonso, Carla, Costa, Marta D., Musilová, Eliska, Macaulay, Vincent, Richards, Martin B., erný, Viktor, Pereira, Luísa

“…Although fossil remains show that anatomically modern humans dispersed out of Africa into the Near East ∼100 to 130 ka, genetic evidence from extant…”
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Genetic diversity in the Iberian Peninsula determined from mitochondrial sequence analysis by Côrte-Real, H B, Macaulay, V A, Richards, M B, Hariti, G, Issad, M S, Cambon-Thomsen, A, Papiha, S, Bertranpetit, J, Sykes, B C

“…We have analysed 302 bp of the first hypervariable region of the mitochondrial D-loop in 271 individuals from different regions of the Iberian Peninsula and 85…”
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Population genetic structure in Indian Austroasiatic speakers: the role of landscape barriers and sex-specific admixture by Chaubey, Gyaneshwer, Metspalu, Mait, Choi, Ying, Mägi, Reedik, Romero, Irene Gallego, Soares, Pedro, van Oven, Mannis, Behar, Doron M, Rootsi, Siiri, Hudjashov, Georgi, Mallick, Chandana Basu, Karmin, Monika, Nelis, Mari, Parik, Jüri, Reddy, Alla Goverdhana, Metspalu, Ene, van Driem, George, Xue, Yali, Tyler-Smith, Chris, Thangaraj, Kumarasamy, Singh, Lalji, Remm, Maido, Richards, Martin B, Lahr, Marta Mirazon, Kayser, Manfred, Villems, Richard, Kivisild, Toomas

“…The geographic origin and time of dispersal of Austroasiatic (AA) speakers, presently settled in south and southeast Asia, remains disputed. Two rival…”
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The effect of rhizosphere dissolved inorganic carbon on gas exchange characteristics and growth rates of tomato seedlings by Cramer, M.D., Richards, M.B.

“…The possibility that an enhanced supply of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC = CO2 + HCO−3) to the root solution could increase the growth of Lycopersicon…”
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Climate Change and Postglacial Human Dispersals in Southeast Asia by Soares, Pedro, Trejaut, Jean Alain, Loo, Jun-Hun, Hill, Catherine, Mormina, Maru, Lee, Chien-Liang, Chen, Yao-Ming, Hudjashov, Georgi, Forster, Peter, Macaulay, Vincent, Bulbeck, David, Oppenheimer, Stephen, Lin, Marie, Richards, Martin B.

“…Modern humans have been living in Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) for at least 50,000 years. Largely because of the influence of linguistic studies, however,…”
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Authenticating DNA Extracted From Ancient Skeletal Remains by Richards, M.B., Sykes, B.C., Hedges, R.E.M.

“…The survival of DNA, the most informative biological molecule, for periods of at least several thousand years in bone was demonstrated more than four years…”
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expansion of the house mouse into north-western Europe by Jones, E.P, Jóhannesdóttir, F, Gündüz, İ, Richards, M.B, Searle, J.B

“…The western house mouse Mus musculus domesticus is a human commensal, and as such, its phylogeography relates to historical human settlement patterns and…”
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Soil Factors and Competition as Determinants of the Distribution of Six Fynbos Proteaceae Species by Richards, M. B., Cowling, R. M., Stock, W. D.

“…The importance of competition and soil factors in determining the distributions of fynbos species was assessed by means of a three-yr experiment. Three pairs…”
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Ancient DNA Suggests a Recent Expansion of European Cattle from a Diverse Wild Progenitor Species by Bailey, Jillian F., Richards, Martin B., Macaulay, Vincent A., Colson, Isabelle B., James I, Tim, Bradley, Daniel G., Hedges, Robert E. M., Sykes, Bryan C.

“…A total of 11 Bos primigenius and Bos taurus bones from archaeological sites between 500 and 12000 years old were examined for the presence of DNA. It was…”
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Soil nutrient dynamics and community boundaries in the Fynbos vegetation of South Africa by Richards, M.B, Stock, W.D, Cowling, R.M

“…The relationship between changes in soil nutrient characteristics and fynbos community boundaries was investigated near Cape Agulhas, South Africa. Soil…”
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Water Relations of Seedlings and Adults of Two Fynbos Protea Species in Relation to Their Distribution Patterns by Richards, M. B., Stock, W. D., Cowling, R. M.

“…1. To test whether differences in water relations were responsible for differences in species distributions across a landscape, we investigated patterns of…”
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Site 73 in hypervariable region II of the human mitochondrial genome and the origin of European populations by Wilkinson-Herbots, H M, Richards, M B, Forster, P, Sykes, B C

“…The majority of published human mitochondrial DNA sequence data are confined to hypervariable region I in the control region. By contrast, this paper focuses…”
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DNA Analysis of Seven Human Skeletons Excavated from the Terp of Wijnaldum by Colson, I.B., Richards, M.B., Bailey, J.F., Sykes, B.C., Hedges, R.E.M.

“…DNA was extracted from the skeletal remains of seven individuals, six infants and one subadult, excavated from a terp near Wijnaldum, in Friesland…”
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Natural polymorphism in the thrombospondin-related adhesive protein of Plasmodium falciparum by Robson, K J, Dolo, A, Hackford, I R, Doumbo, O, Richards, M B, Keita, M M, Sidibe, T, Bosman, A, Modiano, D, Crisanti, A

“…We have developed a typing system using natural sequence variation in the thrombospondin-related adhesive protein (TRAP) gene of Plasmodium falciparum. This…”
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