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The trans-Saharan slave trade - clues from interpolation analyses and high-resolution characterization of mitochondrial DNA lineages

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Ecology and Evolution, May 2010
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Title
The trans-Saharan slave trade - clues from interpolation analyses and high-resolution characterization of mitochondrial DNA lineages
Published in
BMC Ecology and Evolution, May 2010
DOI 10.1186/1471-2148-10-138
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Authors

Nourdin Harich, Marta D Costa, Verónica Fernandes, Mostafa Kandil, Joana B Pereira, Nuno M Silva, Luísa Pereira

Abstract

A proportion of 1/4 to 1/2 of North African female pool is made of typical sub-Saharan lineages, in higher frequencies as geographic proximity to sub-Saharan Africa increases. The Sahara was a strong geographical barrier against gene flow, at least since 5,000 years ago, when desertification affected a larger region, but the Arab trans-Saharan slave trade could have facilitate enormously this migration of lineages. Till now, the genetic consequences of these forced trans-Saharan movements of people have not been ascertained.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Germany 1 1%
United Arab Emirates 1 1%
France 1 1%
Brazil 1 1%
United States 1 1%
Unknown 90 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 23 24%
Student > Master 16 17%
Student > Bachelor 11 12%
Researcher 10 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 5%
Other 17 18%
Unknown 13 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 37 39%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 19 20%
Social Sciences 6 6%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 6%
Environmental Science 3 3%
Other 10 11%
Unknown 14 15%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 26. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 February 2024.
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#1,481,570
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Outputs from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#345
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#4,778
of 103,956 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#5
of 51 outputs
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