Department of Anthropology and School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA.
Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
Science. 2015 Feb 20;347(6224):835. doi: 10.1126/science.1261188.
Prüfer and Meyer raise concerns over the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) results we reported for the Hoyo Negro individual, citing failure of a portion of these data to conform to their expectations of ancient DNA (aDNA). Because damage patterns in aDNA vary, outright rejection of our findings on this basis is unwarranted, especially in light of our other observations.
普鲁弗和迈耶对我们报告的黑柳子个体的线粒体 DNA(mtDNA)结果表示担忧,他们指出这些数据的一部分不符合他们对古代 DNA(aDNA)的预期。由于 aDNA 的损伤模式存在差异,因此基于这一原因完全否定我们的发现是不合理的,尤其是考虑到我们的其他观察结果。