Neandertaler / Genom

Prof. Dr. Svante Pääbo sequenziert mit seinem Team am Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie in Leipzig das Genom des Neandertalers.
Reportage am 27.4.2010
Professor Dr. Svante Pääbo und Team
von links Adrian Briggs, Herman Burbano, Matthias Meyer, Anja Buchholz, Jesse Dabney, Kay Prüfer, Svante Pääbo, Janet Kelso, Tomislav Maricic, Qiaomei Fu, Udo Stenzel, Johannes Krause, Martin Kircher

An international consortium of researchers is sequencing the 3 billion bases that make up the genome of our closest relative – the NeandertalThe sequence is generated from DNA extracted from three Croatian Neandertal fossils, using novel methods developed for this project.The Neandertal genome sequence will clarify the evolutionary relationship between humans and Neandertals as well as help identify those genetic changes that enabled modern humans to leave Africa and rapidly spread around the world, starting around 100.000 years ago.