Profiling the Dead: Generating Microsatellite Data from Fossil Bones of Extinct Megafauna—Protocols, Problems, and Prospects

• Morten E. Allentoft ,

  * E-mail: morten.allentoft@gmail.com (MEA); m.bunce@murdoch.edu.au (MB)

  Affiliations Ancient DNA Laboratory, School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

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• Charlotte Oskam,

  Affiliation Ancient DNA Laboratory, School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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• Jayne Houston,

  Affiliation Ancient DNA Laboratory, School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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• Marie L. Hale,

  Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

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• M. Thomas P Gilbert,

  Affiliation Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Morten Rasmussen,

  Affiliation Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Peter Spencer,

  Affiliation Wildlife Identification Laboratory, School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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• Christopher Jacomb,

  Affiliation Southern Pacific Archaeological Research, Department of Anthropology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

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• Eske Willerslev,

  Affiliation Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Richard N. Holdaway,

  Affiliations School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, Palaecol Research Ltd, Christchurch, New Zealand

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• Michael Bunce

  * E-mail: morten.allentoft@gmail.com (MEA); m.bunce@murdoch.edu.au (MB)

  Affiliation Ancient DNA Laboratory, School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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