Comment on "whole-genome shotgun sequencing of mitochondria from ancient hair shafts"

Science

Volumn 322, Issue 5903, 2008, Pages

  Debruyne, Regis ^a   Schwarz, Carsten ^a   Poinar, Hendrik ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; HAIR; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; WHOLE GENOME SHOTGUN SEQUENCING;

ANIMALS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELEPHANTS; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; HAIR; HISTORY, ANCIENT; PRESERVATION, BIOLOGICAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 55849093940     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1158417     Document Type: Note

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14. This work was funded by The Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (grant 299103-2004), the Canadian Research Chairs program, a Quest grant from Discovery Communications, and McMaster University. We thank B. Buigues, D. Mol, and R. MacPhee for providing samples from Jarkov and other mammoths of the Cerpolex collection (Khatanga, Siberia). We are grateful to P. Tassy and C. Sagne for providing samples from the Lyakhov mammoth (French Museum of Natural History). We are grateful to K. Bos, A. Devault, C. King, M. Kuch, J. Okello, D. Poinar, and J. Zurek for their constructive comments.