Ancient DNA Comes of Age

2005/02/09 by Henry Nicholls · 27 citations
Arts and Humanities · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Ancient DNA #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Biology #Computational biology #DNA #Demography #Evolutionary biology #Forensic and Genetic Research #Genetics #Paleopathology and ancient diseases

paper · pdf · doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0030056

published in PLoS Biology 3(2), e56 (Public Library of Science)

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Abstract

Ancient DNA enables researchers to study the genetics of populations in the past; despite difficulties in its extraction, aDNA reveals that evolution is even more complex than we had imagined

Citations

• Ancient DNA: Do It Right or Not at All
• A new small-bodied hominin from the Late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia
• Dynamics of Pleistocene Population Extinctions in Beringian Brown Bears
• DNA Sequence from Cretaceous Period Bone Fragments
• Evidence for a genetic discontinuity between Neandertals and 24,000-year-old anatomically modern Europeans
• Rise and Fall of the Beringian Steppe Bison
• Isolation of a 250 million-year-old halotolerant bacterium from a primary salt crystal

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• Ancient DNA [wikipedia]