Diverse plant and animal genetic records from holocene and pleistocene sediments

Science

Volumn 300, Issue 5620, 2003, Pages 791-795

  Willerslev, Eske ^a   Hansen, Anders J ^a   Binladen, Jonas ^a   Brand, Tina B ^a   Gilbert, M Thomas P ^b   Shapiro, Beth ^b   Bunce, Michael ^b   Wiuf, Carsten ^b   Gilichinsky, David A ^c   Cooper, Alan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN SOIL SCIENCE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CAVES; DNA; DNA SEQUENCES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PERMAFROST; PLANTS (BOTANY); VEGETATION;

ANIMALS;

SEDIMENTS;

DNA; GENETICS; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PERMAFROST; PRESERVATION; QUATERNARY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; BUFFALO; DNA SEQUENCE; FAUNA; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOLOCENE; HORSE; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATITE; SEDIMENT; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; VEGETATION;

ANGIOSPERMS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRYOPSIDA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, PLANT; ECOSYSTEM; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GYMNOSPERMS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; MAMMALS; NEW ZEALAND; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIBERIA; SOIL; VERTEBRATES;

NEW ZEALAND; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

ANIMALIA; BISON; BUBALUS; CELLULAR ORGANISMS; EQUUS CABALLUS; PALAEOGNATHAE;

EID: 0037741943     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1084114     Document Type: Article

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