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Table 1 Six time-structured mitogenomic data sets analysed in this study

From: A comparison of methods for estimating substitution rates from ancient DNA sequence data

Species

Scientific name

Tips (modern + ancient)

Length (nt)

Age range (years before present)

Outgroupa

Main sourcesb

Adélie penguin

Pygoscelis adeliae

13 + 7

14,198

0–44,000

Pygoscelis antarctica

[23]

Brown/polar bear

Ursus arctos & U. maritimus

31 + 1

14,609

0–122,500

Ursus americanus

[43]

Dog

Canis familiaris

120 + 18

14,596

0–36,000

Canis latrans

[44]

Horse

Equus caballus

147 + 20

14,910

0–42,577

Equus asinus

[45,46,47]

Modern human

Homo sapiens

200 + 37

14,893

0–7134

Homo neanderthalensis

[48]

Woolly mammoth

Mammuthus primigenius

0 + 65

14,951

12,210–46,455

Elephas maximus

[49]

  1. aGenBank accession numbers for outgroup sequences are given in the sequence data files
  2. bMain publications from which the sequence data were obtained