Palaeoproteomic analysis of Pleistocene cave hyenas from east Asia

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Palaeoproteomic analysis of Pleistocene cave hyenas from east Asia. / Rao, Huiyun; Yang, Yimin; Liu, Jinyi; Westbury, Michael V.; Zhang, Chi; Shao, Qingfeng.

In: Scientific Reports, Vol. 10, No. 1, 16674, 2020, p. 1-12.

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Rao, H, Yang, Y, Liu, J, Westbury, MV, Zhang, C & Shao, Q 2020, 'Palaeoproteomic analysis of Pleistocene cave hyenas from east Asia', Scientific Reports, vol. 10, no. 1, 16674, pp. 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-73542-x

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Rao, H., Yang, Y., Liu, J., Westbury, M. V., Zhang, C., & Shao, Q. (2020). Palaeoproteomic analysis of Pleistocene cave hyenas from east Asia. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 1-12. [16674]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-73542-x

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Rao H, Yang Y, Liu J, Westbury MV, Zhang C, Shao Q. Palaeoproteomic analysis of Pleistocene cave hyenas from east Asia. Scientific Reports. 2020;10(1):1-12. 16674. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-73542-x

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Rao, Huiyun ; Yang, Yimin ; Liu, Jinyi ; Westbury, Michael V. ; Zhang, Chi ; Shao, Qingfeng. / Palaeoproteomic analysis of Pleistocene cave hyenas from east Asia. In: Scientific Reports. 2020 ; Vol. 10, No. 1. pp. 1-12.

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title = "Palaeoproteomic analysis of Pleistocene cave hyenas from east Asia",
abstract = "The spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) is the only extant species of the genus Crocuta, which once occupied a much wider range during the Pliocene and Pleistocene. However, its origin and evolutionary history is somewhat contentious due to discordances between morphological, nuclear, and mitochondrial data. Due to the limited molecular data from east Asian Crocuta, also known as cave hyena, and the difficulty of extracting ancient DNA from this area, here we present proteomic analysis of cave hyenas from three locations in northern China. This marks the first proteomic data generated from cave hyenas, adding new molecular data to the east Asian populations. Phylogenetic analysis based on these protein sequences reveals two different groups of cave hyenas in east Asia, one of which could not be distinguished from modern spotted hyenas from northern Africa, tentatively the result of previously suggested gene flow between these lineages. With developments of instrumentation and analytical methods, proteomics holds promising potential for molecular phylogenetic reconstructions of ancient fauna previously thought to be unreachable using ancient DNA.",
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