ReviewSystematic biology2017
Evolutionary Patterns and Processes: Lessons from Ancient DNA.
Review in Systematic biology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 37 papers.
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- Target Capture of Ancient Shell DNA Enables Phylogenetic Reconstruction of Deep-Sea Molluscs.Molecular ecology resources · 2026Article
- Ancient DNA as a temporal lens: reconstructing evolution, migration, and disease dynamics.Journal, genetic engineering & biotechnology · 2026Review
- Museum specimens reveal the genomic consequences of long-term population decline in an insect pollinator.Molecular biology and evolution · 2026Article
- Recovery and analysis of ancient DNA: challenges, methods, and applications in forensic and archaeological science.Journal, genetic engineering & biotechnology · 2026Article
- Combining Population Genomics With Ancient DNA to Understand Island Colonisation History of the Madagascar Turtle Dove.Molecular ecology · 2026Article
- A High-Throughput Ancient DNA Extraction Method for Large-Scale Sample Screening.Molecular ecology resources · 2025Article
- Sequencing RNA from old, dried specimens reveals past viromes and properties of long-surviving RNA.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Ancient reindeer mitogenomes reveal island-hopping colonisation of the Arctic archipelagos.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Mitogenomes revealed the history of bison colonization of Northern Plains after the Last Glacial Maximum.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Evolving Perspective on the Origin and Diversification of Cellular Life and the Virosphere.Genome biology and evolution · 2022Review
- Pedigree derived mutation rate across the entire mitochondrial genome of the Norfolk Island population.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Development and Optimization of a Silica Column-Based Extraction Protocol for Ancient DNA.Genes · 2022Article
- Probing the genomic limits of de-extinction in the Christmas Island rat.Current biology : CB · 2022Article
- Performance and automation of ancient DNA capture with RNA hyRAD probes.Molecular ecology resources · 2022Article
- Comprehensive Metabolic and Taxonomic Reconstruction of an Ancient Microbial Mat From the McMurdo Ice Shelf (Antarctica) by Integrating Genetic, Metaproteomic and Lipid Biomarker Analyses.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
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- Predicting sample success for large-scale ancient DNA studies on marine mammals.Molecular ecology resources · 2021Article
- Ancient DNA and paleogenetics: risks and potentiality.Pathologica · 2021Article
- Human molecular evolutionary rate, time dependency and transient polymorphism effects viewed through ancient and modern mitochondrial DNA genomes.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- A manifesto for palaeodemography in the twenty-first century.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issuedErratum.2017
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10 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.
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No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Ever since its emergence in 1984, the field of ancient DNA has struggled to overcome the challenges related to the decay of DNA molecules in the fossil record. With the recent development of high-throughput DNA sequencing technologies and molecular techniques tailored to ultra-damaged templates, it has now come of age, merging together approaches in phylogenomics, population genomics, epigenomics, and metagenomics. Leveraging on complete temporal sample series, ancient DNA provides direct access to the most important dimension in evolution—time, allowing a wealth of fundamental evolutionary processes to be addressed at unprecedented resolution. This review taps into the most recent findings in ancient DNA research to present analyses of ancient genomic and metagenomic data.
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