Ancient and modern environmental DNA
DNA obtained from environmental samples such as sediments, ice or water (environmental DNA, eDNA), represents an important source of information on past and present biodiversity. It has revealed an ancient forest in Greenland, extended by several thousand years the survival dates for mainland woolly...
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ftgriffithuniv:oai:research-repository.griffith.edu.au:10072/172183 2023-05-15T15:04:13+02:00 Ancient and modern environmental DNA Pedersen, Mikkel Winther Overballe-Petersen, Soren Ermini, Luca Der Sarkissian, Clio Haile, James Hellstrom, Micaela Spens, Johan Thomsen, Philip Francis Bohmann, Kristine Cappellini, Enrico Schnell, Ida Baerholm Wales, Nathan A. Caroe, Christian Campos, Paula F. Schmidt, Astrid M. Z. Gilbert, M. Thomas P. Hansen, Anders Johannes Orlando, Ludovic Willerslev, Eske 2015 http://hdl.handle.net/10072/172183 https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2013.0383 English eng Royal Society Publishing Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences Molecular Evolution Journal article 2015 ftgriffithuniv https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2013.0383 2018-07-30T10:59:05Z DNA obtained from environmental samples such as sediments, ice or water (environmental DNA, eDNA), represents an important source of information on past and present biodiversity. It has revealed an ancient forest in Greenland, extended by several thousand years the survival dates for mainland woolly mammoth in Alaska, and pushed back the dates for spruce survival in Scandinavian ice-free refugia during the last glaciation. More recently, eDNA was used to uncover the past 50 000 years of vegetation history in the Arctic, revealing massive vegetation turnover at the Pleistocene/Holocene transition, with implications for the extinction of megafauna. Furthermore, eDNA can reflect the biodiversity of extant flora and fauna, both qualitatively and quantitatively, allowing detection of rare species. As such, trace studies of plant and vertebrate DNA in the environment have revolutionized our knowledge of biogeography. However, the approach remains marred by biases related to DNA behaviour in environmental settings, incomplete reference databases and false positive results due to contamination. We provide a review of the field. No Full Text Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Greenland Alaska Griffith University: Griffith Research Online Arctic Greenland Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 370 1660 20130383 |
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DNA obtained from environmental samples such as sediments, ice or water (environmental DNA, eDNA), represents an important source of information on past and present biodiversity. It has revealed an ancient forest in Greenland, extended by several thousand years the survival dates for mainland woolly mammoth in Alaska, and pushed back the dates for spruce survival in Scandinavian ice-free refugia during the last glaciation. More recently, eDNA was used to uncover the past 50 000 years of vegetation history in the Arctic, revealing massive vegetation turnover at the Pleistocene/Holocene transition, with implications for the extinction of megafauna. Furthermore, eDNA can reflect the biodiversity of extant flora and fauna, both qualitatively and quantitatively, allowing detection of rare species. As such, trace studies of plant and vertebrate DNA in the environment have revolutionized our knowledge of biogeography. However, the approach remains marred by biases related to DNA behaviour in environmental settings, incomplete reference databases and false positive results due to contamination. We provide a review of the field. No Full Text |
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Pedersen, Mikkel Winther Overballe-Petersen, Soren Ermini, Luca Der Sarkissian, Clio Haile, James Hellstrom, Micaela Spens, Johan Thomsen, Philip Francis Bohmann, Kristine Cappellini, Enrico Schnell, Ida Baerholm Wales, Nathan A. Caroe, Christian Campos, Paula F. Schmidt, Astrid M. Z. Gilbert, M. Thomas P. Hansen, Anders Johannes Orlando, Ludovic Willerslev, Eske |
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Ancient and modern environmental DNA |
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