| Accession |
PRJCA002765 |
| Title |
Denisovan DNA in Late Pleistocene sediments from Baishiya Karst Cave on the Tibetan Plateau |
| Relevance |
Evolution |
| Data types |
Assembly
|
| Organisms |
Homo sapiens
|
| Description |
A late Middle Pleistocene mandible from Baishiya Karst Cave (BKC) on the Tibetan Plateau carries an amino acid substitution inferred to occur in the Denisovan genome. Little is known about the archaeological context of the mandible or occupation history of BKC. Here we describe the site stratigraphy, chronology and mitochondrial DNA extracted from the sediments in BKC. Denisovan mitochondrial DNA was recovered from sediments deposited ~100 and ~60 thousand years ago (ka), and possibly from sediments deposited as recently as ~45 ka, dated by radiocarbon 14C and optical dating methods. The long-term occupation of BKC by Denisovans suggests that they may have adapted to life at high altitudes and may have contributed such adaptations to modern humans on the Tibetan Plateau. |
| Sample scope |
Multiisolate |
| Release date |
2020-10-29 |
| Grants |
| Agency |
program |
Grant ID |
Grant title |
| Ministry of Science and Technology of the People
|
|
2019QZKK0601
|
|
| National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
|
|
41771225
|
|
| Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
|
|
XDB26000000
|
|
| National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
|
|
91731303
|
|
| National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
|
|
41925009
|
|
|
|
| Submitter |
Qiaomei
Fu (fuqiaomei@ivpp.ac.cn)
|
| Organization |
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Submission date |
2020-05-30 |
