Title
Bayesian inferences suggest that Amazon Yunga Natives diverged from Andeans less than 5000 ybp: Implications for South American prehistory
Date Issued
30 September 2014
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Scliar M.
Gouveia M.
Benazzo A.
Ghirotto S.
Fagundes N.
Leal T.
Magalhães W.
Pereira L.
Rodrigues M.
Soares-Souza G.
Berg D.
Bertorelle G.
Publisher(s)
BioMed Central Ltd.
Abstract
Background: Archaeology reports millenary cultural contacts between Peruvian Coast-Andes and the Amazon Yunga, a rainforest transitional region between Andes and Lower Amazonia. To clarify the relationships between cultural and biological evolution of these populations, in particular between Amazon Yungas and Andeans, we used DNA-sequence data, a model-based Bayesian approach and several statistical validations to infer a set of demographic parameters.
Volume
14
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Biología (teórica, matemática, térmica, criobiología, ritmo biológico), Biología evolutiva
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84907758666
PubMed ID
Source
BMC Evolutionary Biology
ISSN of the container
1471-2148
Sponsor(s)
We thank Fernando L Soares for preparation of figures, Silvia Fuselli, Guido Barbujani, Rosangela Loschi, Renato Assunção, Ricardo Santos, Celso Teixeira Mendes Junior and Juan C Riveros for discussions. Funding agencies: Fogarty International Center and National Cancer Institute-US (5R01TW007894), Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq), Brazilian CAPES Agency, Brazilian Ministry of Health (PNPD-Saúde Program), and the Minas Gerais State Research Agency (FAPEMIG) to E.T-S group. National Institutes of Health-US R21AI078237 and R21AI088337 to D.E.B.
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