Ancient DNA sheds new light on the Svalbard foraminiferal fossil record of the last millennium

• Published in: Geobiology
• Main Authors: Pawłowska, J., Lejzerowicz, F., Esling, P., Szczuciński, W., Zajączkowski, M., Pawlowski, J.
• Other Authors: Swiss National Science Foundation, Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Scientific Exchange Programme between Switzerland and the New Member States of the EU (Sciex-NMS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2014
• Subjects: Hornsund; Svalbard
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12087; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fgbi.12087; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/gbi.12087

Abstract Recent palaeogenetic studies have demonstrated the occurrence of preserved ancient DNA ( aDNA ) in various types of fossilised material. Environmental aDNA sequences assigned to modern species have been recovered from marine sediments dating to the Pleistocene. However, the match between th...