ReviewProceedings. Biological sciences2005
Ancient DNA.
Review in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 218 papers.
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- The First Ancient DNA Evidence of Zebu Husbandry in Thailand During the Prehistoric Through the Historic Periods.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Recovery and analysis of ancient DNA: challenges, methods, and applications in forensic and archaeological science.Journal, genetic engineering & biotechnology · 2026Article
- Setting higher standards for reports of microbial species in human cancers.Nature cancer · 2026Review
- AncientProxy: A catalog of ancient proxies for modern genetic variants.American journal of human genetics · 2026Article
- Patterns of aDNA damage through time and environments-lessons from herbarium specimens.GigaScience · 2026Article
- Continuity and discontinuity in Native American populations: Insights from ancient and modern mitochondrial DNA.Genetics and molecular biology · 2026Article
- Lessons learned: Recommendations for reproducible paleogenomic data analyses.American journal of human genetics · 2025Review
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- CarpeDeam: a de novo metagenome assembler for heavily damaged ancient datasets.Genome biology · 2025Article
- Destructive and Non-Destructive Methods for aDNA Isolation from Teeth and Their Analysis: A Comparison.Genes · 2025Article
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- Temperature-Sensitive Lipids Reveal Intraspecific Diversity in Bacteria Isolated from an Ancient Antarctic Microbial Mat.Microbial ecology · 2025Article
- Holocene shifts in marine mammal distributions around Northern Greenland revealed by sedimentary ancient DNA.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Exploring Life Detection on Mars: Understanding Challenges in DNA Amplification in Martian Regolith Analogue After Fe Ion Irradiation.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Cost-effectiveness and other considerations for different research techniques applied in ancient DNA analysis.Anatomy & cell biology · 2025Review
- Use of Ecological Networks to Reveal Interspecific Fungal Interactions from 150 Years of Foray Records.Mycobiology · 2025Article
- Revisiting the Briggs Ancient DNA Damage Model: A Fast Maximum Likelihood Method to Estimate Post-Mortem Damage.Molecular ecology resources · 2025Article
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Abstract
In the past two decades, ancient DNA research has progressed from the retrieval of small fragments of mitochondrial DNA from a few late Holocene specimens, to large-scale studies of ancient populations, phenotypically important nuclear loci, and even whole mitochondrial genome sequences of extinct species. However, the field is still regularly marred by erroneous reports, which underestimate the extent of contamination within laboratories and samples themselves. An improved understanding of these processes and the effects of damage on ancient DNA templates has started to provide a more robust basis for research. Recent methodological advances have included the characterization of Pleistocene mammal populations and discoveries of DNA preserved in ancient sediments. Increasingly, ancient genetic information is providing a unique means to test assumptions used in evolutionary and population genetics studies to reconstruct the past. Initial results have revealed surprisingly complex population histories, and indicate that modern phylogeographic studies may give misleading impressions about even the recent evolutionary past. With the advent and uptake of appropriate methodologies, ancient DNA is now positioned to become a powerful tool in biological research and is also evolving new and unexpected uses, such as in the search for extinct or extant life in the deep biosphere and on other planets.
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