ArticleMolecular ecology resources2025
A High-Throughput Ancient DNA Extraction Method for Large-Scale Sample Screening.
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- Ancient DNA and Human Physiology.Physiology (Bethesda, Md.) · 2026Review
- Paleogenomic sex inference of mammoth remains sheds light on the anthropogenic nature of bone accumulations.Current biology : CB · 2026Article
- Insights into human adaptation from ancient DNA.Nature genetics · 2026Review
- Electroelution Into a Salt Trap: Reviving an Old-School Approach to DNA Purification.Small methods · 2026Article
- Paleogenomics Reveals a Loss of Bovine Lineages in Mid-latitude Asia Over the Last 200,000 Years.Genome biology and evolution · 2025Article
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Large-scale DNA screening of palaeontological and archaeological collections remains a limiting and costly factor for ancient DNA studies. Several DNA extraction protocols are routinely used in ancient DNA laboratories and have even been automated on robotic platforms. Robots offer a solution for high-throughput screening but the costs, as well as necessity for trained technicians and engineers, can be prohibitive for some laboratories. Here, we present a high-throughput alternative to robot-based ancient DNA extraction using a 96-column plate. When compared to routine single MinElute columns, we retrieved highly similar endogenous DNA contents, an important metric in ancient DNA screening. Mitogenomes with a coverage depth greater than 0.1× could be generated and allowed for taxonomic assignment. However, average fragment lengths, DNA damage and library complexities significantly differed between methods but these differences became nonsignificant after modification of our library purification protocol. Our high-throughput extraction method allows generation of 96 extracts within approximately 4 hours of laboratory work while bringing the cost down by ~39% compared to using single columns. Additionally, we formally demonstrate that the addition of Tween-20 during the elution step results in higher complexity libraries, thereby enabling higher genome coverage for the same sequencing effort.
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