DNA from ancient cedar wood from King Midas' tomb, Turkey, and Al-Aksa Mosque, Israel

Silvae Genetica

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 54-62

  Rogers, S O ^a,b   Kaya, Z ^a,c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Cedrus libani; Gordion; Midas; Wood

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA SEQUENCES; GENE ENCODING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WOOD;

ANCIENT DNA; CEDRUS LIBANI; GORDION; MIDAS;

FORESTRY; DNA;

CEDAR; ENZYMES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; WOOD;

CEDRUS; CEDRUS LIBANI; CONIFEROPHYTA; FUNGI;

ANCIENT DNA; ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE; CEDAR WOOD; CEDRUS LIBANI; GORDION; MIDA; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; RIBOSOMAL DNA; WOOD SAMPLES; WOOD SPECIMENS;

EID: 33744965532     PISSN: 00375349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. AYTUG, B. (1988): Le mobilier funeraire du roi Midas I. Pact 22: 357-368.
2. BOYDAK, M. (2003): Regeneration of Lebanon cedar (Cedrus libani A. Rich.) on karstic lands in Turkey. Forest Ecol. Manag. 178: 231-243.
3. CANO, R. J. and M. K. BORUCKI (1995): Revival and identification of bacterial spores in 25- and 40-million-year-old Dominican amber. Science 268: 1060-1064.
4. DEGUILLOUX, M.-F., M.-H. PEMONG and R. J. PETIT (2002): Novel perspectives in wood certification and forensics: dry wood as a source of DNA. Proc. Royal Soc. Lond. Ser. B 269: 1039-1046.
5. DEGUILLOUX, M.-F., M.-H. PEMONGE and R. J. PETIT (2004): DNA-based control of oak wood geographic origin in the context of the cooperage industry. Annals Forest Sci. 61: 97-104.
6. DEGUILLOUX, M.-F., M.-H. PEMONGE, L. BERTEL, A. KREMER and R. J. PETIT (2003): Checking the geographical origin of oak wood: molecular and statistical tools. Molec. Ecol. 12: 1629-1636.
7. DUMOLIN-LAPÈGUE, S., M.-H. PEMONGE, L. GIELLY, P. TABERLET and R. J. PETIT (1999): Amplification of oak DNA from ancient and modern wood. Molec. Ecol. 8: 2137-2140.
8. FILLEY, T. R., R. A. BLANCHETTE, E. SIMPSON and M. L. FOGEL (2001): Nitrogen cycling by wood decomposing soft-rot fungi in the "King Midas tomb," Gordion, Turkey. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci USA 98: 13346-13350.
9. GUGERLI, F., F. PARDUCCI, L. and R. J. PETIT (2005): Ancient plant DNA: review and prospects. New Phytol. 166: 409-418.
10. HOFREITER, M., D. SERRE, H. N. POINAR, M. KUCH and S. PÄÄBO (2001): Ancient DNA. Nature Rev. Genet. 2: 353-359.
11. IÇGEN, Y. (2002): Genetic composition of Pinus brutia Ten. forests established with seeds from seed stands and orchards determined by using DNA markers. Ph.D. Dissertation, Middle East Technical University, Department of Biological Sciences, Ankara, Turkey.
12. KANDEDMIR, G., I. KANDEMIR and Z. KAYA (2004): The Pattern of Genetic Variation in Turkish red pine (Pinus brutia Ten.) seed stands as determined by RAPD markers. Silvae Genetica 53: 169-175.
13. KAYA, Z. and D. B. NEALE (1995): Linkage map based on randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers in Pinus brutia Ten. Silvae Genetica 44: 110-116.
14. KAYIHAN, G. (2000): The genetic structure of Cedrus libani populations determined by DNA markers. MS Thesis, Middle East Technical University, Department of Biology, Ankara, Turkey.
15. KIM, S., D. E. SOLTIS, P. S. SOLTIS and Y. SUH (2004): DNA sequences from Miocene fossils: an ndhF sequence of Magnolia latahensis (Magnoliaceae) and an rbcL sequence of Persea pseudocarolinensis (Lauraceae). Amer. J. Bot. 91: 615-620.
16. LINDAHL, T. (1993): Instability and decay of the primary structure of DNA. Nature 362: 709-715.
17. LINDAHL, T. (1997): Facts and artifacts of ancient DNA. Cell 90: 1-3.
18. 14C dating of carved panels and beams from the Al-Aksa Mosque in Jerusalem. J. Archaeolog. Sci. 24: 1045-1050.
19. MA, L. J., S. O. ROGERS, C. CATRANIS and W. T. STARMER (2000): Detection and characterization of ancient fungi entrapped in glacial ice. Mycologia 92: 286-295.
20. MILLER, N. F. (1999): Interpreting ancient environment and patterns of land use: Seeds, charcoal and archaeological context. TUBA-AR II: 15-29.
21. MILLER, N. F. (1998): The macrobotanical evidence for vegetation in the Near East, c 18000/16000 BC to 4000 BC. Plaeorient. 23/2: 197-207.
22. PÄÄBO, S., H. POINAR, D. SERRE, V. JAENICKE-DESPRES, J. HEBLER, N. ROHLAND, M. KUCH, J. KRAUSE, L. VIGILANT and M. HOFREITER (2004): Genetic analyses from ancient DNA. Ann. Rev. Genet. 38: 645-679.
23. PÄÄBO, S. (1993): Ancient DNA. Sci. Amer. 267: 60-66.
24. PÄÄBO, S. (1988): Molecular clonning of Ancient Egyptian Mummy DNA. Nature 314: 644-645.
25. PARDUCCI, L. and R. J. PETIT (2004): Ancient DNA - unlocking plants' fossil secrets. New Phytol. 161: 335-339.
26. ROGERS, S. O. (1994): Phylogenetic and taxonomic information from herbarium and mummified DNA, pp. 47-67 in DNA Utilization, Intellectual Property and Fossil DNA, edited by R. P. ADAMS, J. MILLER, E. GOLENBERG, and J. E. ADAMS, Missouri Botanical Gardens Press, St. Louis/MO.
27. ROGERS, S. O. and A. J. BENDICH (1985): Extraction of DNA from milligram amounts of fresh, herbarium and mummified plant tissues. Plant Mol. Biol. 5: 69-76.
28. ROGERS, S. O. and A. J. BENDICH (1988): Extraction of DNA from plant tissues, pp. A6:1-10. In: Plant Molecular Biology Manual, edited by S. B. GELVIN and R. A. SCHILPEROORT, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston/MA.
29. nd ed., edited by S. B. GELVIN and R. A. SCHILPEROORT, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
30. ROGERS, S. O., L. MA, Y. ZHAO, C. M. CATRANIS, W. T. STARMER and J. D. CASTELLO (2005): Recommendations for elimination of contaminants and authentication of isolates from ancient ice cores, pp. 5-21. In: Life in Ancient Ice, edited by J. D. CASTELLO and S. O. ROGERS, Princeton University Press, Princeton/NJ.
31. ROGERS, S. O., S. REHNER, C. BLEDSOE, G. J. MUELLER and J. F. AMMIRATI (1989): Extraction of DNA from Basidiomycetes for ribosomal DNA hybridizations. Can. J. Bot. 67: 1235-1243.
32. ROGERS, S. O., V. THERAISNATHAN, L. J. MA, Y. ZHAO, G. ZHANG, S. G. SHIN, J. D. CASTELLO and W. T. STARMER (2004): Comparison of protocols to decontaminate environmental ice samples for biological and molecular examinations. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 70: 2540-2544.
33. SAVOLAINEN, V., P. CUÉNOUD, R. SPICHIGER, M. D. P. MARTINEZ, M. CRÈVECOEUR and J.-F. MANEN (1995): The use of herbarium specimens in DNA phylogenetics - evaluation and improvement. Plant Syst. Evol. 197: 87-98.
34. SUYAMA, T., K. KAWAMURO, I. KINOSHITA, K. YOSHIMURA, Y. TSUMURA and H. TAKAHARA (1996): DNA sequence from a fossil pollen of Abies spp. from Pleistocene peat, in http://www.madsci.org/ (University of Washington, Medical School): The MadScientist Network.
35. SWOFFORD, D. L. (2000): PAUP: Phylogenetic Analysis Using Parsimony, Version 4.03, Sinauer Associates, Sunderland/MA.
36. TANI, N., Y. TSUMURA and H. SATO (2003): Nuclear gene sequences and DNA variation of Cryptomeria japonica samples from the postglacial period. Molec. Ecol. 12: 859-868.
37. TAUTZ, D. and M. RENZ (1983): An optimized freeze-squeeze method for recovery of DNA from agarose gels. Anal. Biochem. 132: 14-19.
38. WAYNE, R. K., J. A. LEONARD and A. COOPER (1999): Full of sound and fury: The recent history of ancient DNA. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 30: 457-477.