Ancient biomolecules from deep ice cores reveal a forested southern Greenland

Science

Volumn 317, Issue 5834, 2007, Pages 111-114

  Willerslev, Eske ^a   Cappellini, Enrico ^b   Boomsma, Wouter ^a   Nielsen, Rasmus ^a   Hebsgaard, Martin B ^a   Brand, Tina B ^a   Hofreiter, Michael ^c   Bunce, Michael ^d,e   Poinar, Hendrik N ^e   Dahl Jensen, Dorthe ^a   Johnsen, Sigfus ^a   Steffensen, Jørgen Peder ^a   Bennike, Ole ^f   Schwenninger, Jean Luc ^g   Nathan, Roger ^g   Armitage, Simon ^h   De Hoog, Cees Jan ⁱ   Alfimov, Vasily ^j   Christl, Marcus ^j   Beer, Juerg ^k   Muscheler, Raimund ^l   Barker, Joel ^m   Sharp, Martin ^m   Penkman, Kirsty E H ^b   Haile, James ⁱ   Taberlet, Pierre ⁿ   Gilbert, M Thomas P ^a   Casoli, Antonella ^o   Campani, Elisa ^o   Collins, Matthew J ^b   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^d MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^j PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^k SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^l LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^m UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

ⁿ UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

^o UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA; ICE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMINO ACID; DNA; FAUNA; FLORA; FOSSIL RECORD; GLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; ICE CORE; ICE SHEET; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RECONSTRUCTION;

ALTITUDE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONIFER; DNA DETERMINATION; FOREST; FOSSIL; GLACIER; GREENLAND; INSECT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CLIMATE; DNA; ECOSYSTEM; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; GREENLAND; HISTORY, ANCIENT; ICE COVER; INVERTEBRATES; PLANTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TIME; TREES;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

CONIFEROPHYTA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 34447337482     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1141758     Document Type: Article

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