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A Melanocortin 1 Receptor Allele Suggests Varying Pigmentation Among Neanderthals
- Carles Lalueza-Fox1,*,†,
- Holger Römpler2,10,*,
- David Caramelli3,
- Claudia Stäubert2,
- Giulio Catalano3,4,
- David Hughes9,
- Nadin Rohland9,
- Elena Pilli3,
- Laura Longo5,
- Silvana Condemi6,
- Marco de la Rasilla7,
- Javier Fortea7,
- Antonio Rosas8,
- Mark Stoneking9,
- Torsten Schöneberg2,
- Jaume Bertranpetit4,
- Michael Hofreiter9,†
- 1 Departament de Biologia Animal, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.
- 2 Department of Molecular Biochemistry, Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
- 3 Department of Animal Biology and Genetics, Laboratory of Anthropology, University of Florence, Italy.
- 4 Unitat de Biologia Evolutiva, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
- 5 Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Università di Siena, Siena, Italy.
- 6 Unité d'Anthropologie, CNRS, UMR 6578, Marseille, France.
- 7 Área de Prehistoria, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain.
- 8 Departamento de Paleobiología, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Madrid, Spain.
- 9 Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
- 10 Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
- ↵† To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: clalueza{at}ub.edu (C.L.-F.); hofreite{at}eva.mpg.de (M.H.)
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Science 30 Nov 2007:
Vol. 318, Issue 5855, pp. 1453-1455
DOI: 10.1126/science.1147417
