ArticleMolecular ecology2018
High-Throughput DNA sequencing of ancient wood.
Article in Molecular ecology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.
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- Deep tree roots at risk of accelerating groundwater pollution beneath clay-rich aquitards.Nature communications · 2026Article
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- Optimizing ancient DNA recovery from archaeological plant seeds.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Filtering out the noise: metagenomic classifiers optimize ancient DNA mapping.Briefings in bioinformatics · 2024Article
- Tracking population structure and phenology through time using ancient genomes from waterlogged white oak wood.Molecular ecology · 2024Article
- Paleomicrobiology: Tracking the past microbial life from single species to entire microbial communities.Microbial biotechnology · 2024Review
- Microbiome Diversity and Cellulose Decomposition Processes by Microorganisms on the Ancient Wooden Seawall of Qiantang River of Hangzhou, China.Microbial ecology · 2023Article
- Artefact Profiling: Panomics Approaches for Understanding the Materiality of Written Artefacts.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- The untapped potential of macrofossils in ancient plant DNA research.The New phytologist · 2022Article
- Ancient genomes reveal early Andean farmers selected common beans while preserving diversity.Nature plants · 2021Article
- The Bad and the Good-Microorganisms in Cultural Heritage Environments-An Update on Biodeterioration and Biotreatment Approaches.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Extraction and high-throughput sequencing of oak heartwood DNA: Assessing the feasibility of genome-wide DNA methylation profiling.PloS one · 2021Article
- The History and Diversity of Rice Domestication as Resolved From 1464 Complete Plastid Genomes.Frontiers in plant science · 2021Article
- Essential Oils as Alternative Biocides for the Preservation of Waterlogged Archaeological Wood.Microorganisms · 2020Article
- DNA of centuries-old timber can reveal its origin.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Adaptive introgression as a driver of local adaptation to climate in European white oaks.The New phytologist · 2020Article
- Oaks: an evolutionary success story.The New phytologist · 2020Review
- Oak symbolism in the light of genomics.The New phytologist · 2020Review
- Museomics for reconstructing historical floristic exchanges: Divergence of stone oaks across Wallacea.PloS one · 2020Article
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Abstract
Reconstructing the colonization and demographic dynamics that gave rise to extant forests is essential to forecasts of forest responses to environmental changes. Classical approaches to map how population of trees changed through space and time largely rely on pollen distribution patterns, with only a limited number of studies exploiting DNA molecules preserved in wooden tree archaeological and subfossil remains. Here, we advance such analyses by applying high-throughput (HTS) DNA sequencing to wood archaeological and subfossil material for the first time, using a comprehensive sample of 167 European white oak waterlogged remains spanning a large temporal (from 550 to 9,800 years) and geographical range across Europe. The successful characterization of the endogenous DNA and exogenous microbial DNA of 140 (~83%) samples helped the identification of environmental conditions favouring long-term DNA preservation in wood remains, and started to unveil the first trends in the DNA decay process in wood material. Additionally, the maternally inherited chloroplast haplotypes of 21 samples from three periods of forest human-induced use (Neolithic, Bronze Age and Middle Ages) were found to be consistent with those of modern populations growing in the same geographic areas. Our work paves the way for further studies aiming at using ancient DNA preserved in wood to reconstruct the micro-evolutionary response of trees to climate change and human forest management.
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