Diverse plant and animal genetic records from Holocene and Pleistocene sediments

• Published in: Science
• Main Authors: Willerslev, E., Hansen, A., Binladen, J., Brand, T., Gilbert, M., Shapiro, B., Bunce, M., Wiuf, C., Gilichinsky, D., Cooper, A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Amer Assoc Advancement Science 2003
• Subjects: Animals; Vertebrates; Mammals; Plants; Bryopsida; DNA; Chloroplast; Mitochondrial; Plant; Soil; Cloning; Molecular; Polymerase Chain Reaction; Ecosystem; Phylogeny; Base Sequence; Geologic Sediments; Fossils; History; Ancient; Siberia; New Zealand; Magnoliopsida; Cycadopsida; Moa; permafrost
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2440/34233; https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1084114

Copyright © 2003 American Association for the Advancement of Science Genetic analyses of permafrost and temperate sediments reveal that plant and animal DNA may be preserved for considerable time periods, even in the absence of obvious macrofossils. In Siberia, five permafrost cores ranging from 400...