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

• Published in: Geobiology
• Main Authors: Pawłowska, Joanna, Lejzerowicz, F, Esling, Philippe, Szczuciński, Witold, Zajączkowski, Marek, Pawlowski, Jan
• Other Authors: Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences (IO-PAN), Polska Akademia Nauk = Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), Department of Genetics and Evolution Genève, University of Geneva Switzerland, Sciences et Technologies de la Musique et du Son (STMS), Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institute of Geology Poznan, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (UAM)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2014
• Subjects: [SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology; [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]; [SDE]Environmental Sciences; Svalbard; Hornsund
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01577893; https://doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12087

International audience 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 matc...