Ancient population genomics and the study of evolution

• Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
• Main Authors: Parks, Matthew, Sankarasubramanian, Sankar, Baroni, Carlo, Salvatore, M.C., Zhang, G., Millar, Craig D., Lambert, David
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society Publishing 2015
• Subjects: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified; Griffith; Antarc*; Antarctica; permafrost; Pygoscelis adeliae
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10072/141117; https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2013.0381

Recently, the study of ancient DNA (aDNA) has been greatly enhanced by the development of second-generation DNA sequencing technologies and targeted enrichment strategies. These developments have allowed the recovery of several complete ancient genomes, a result that would have been considered virtu...