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Extinct New Zealand megafauna were not in decline before human colonization

Morten Erik Allentoft, Rasmus Heller, Charlotte L. Oskam, Eline D. Lorenzen, Marie L. Hale, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Christopher Jacomb, Richard N. Holdaway, and Michael Bunce
PNAS first published March 17, 2014; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1314972111
Morten Erik Allentoft
aCentre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen,1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark;
bAncient DNA Laboratory, School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, Perth, WA 6150, Australia;
cSchool of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand;
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Rasmus Heller
dDepartment of Biology, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark;
eInstituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, 6 P-2780-156 Oeiras, Portugal;
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Charlotte L. Oskam
bAncient DNA Laboratory, School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, Perth, WA 6150, Australia;
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Eline D. Lorenzen
aCentre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen,1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark;
fDepartment of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720;
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Marie L. Hale
cSchool of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand;
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M. Thomas P. Gilbert
aCentre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen,1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark;
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Christopher Jacomb
gSouthern Pacific Archaeological Research, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Otago, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand;
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Richard N. Holdaway
cSchool of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand;
hPalaecol Research Ltd., Hornby, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand; and
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Michael Bunce
bAncient DNA Laboratory, School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, Perth, WA 6150, Australia;
iTrace and Environmental DNA Laboratory, Department of Environment and Agriculture, Curtin University, Perth, WA 6102, Australia
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  • For correspondence: morten.allentoft@gmail.com michael.bunce@curtin.edu.au
  1. Edited by Robert E. Ricklefs, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO, and approved February 10, 2014 (received for review August 7, 2013)

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Moa were not in decline before human colonization
Morten Erik Allentoft, Rasmus Heller, Charlotte L. Oskam, Eline D. Lorenzen, Marie L. Hale, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Christopher Jacomb, Richard N. Holdaway, Michael Bunce
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Mar 2014, 201314972; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1314972111

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Morten Erik Allentoft, Rasmus Heller, Charlotte L. Oskam, Eline D. Lorenzen, Marie L. Hale, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Christopher Jacomb, Richard N. Holdaway, Michael Bunce
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Mar 2014, 201314972; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1314972111
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