Is amino acid racemization a useful tool for screening for ancient DNA in bone?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1669, 2009, Pages 2971-2977

  Collins, Matthew J ^a   Penkman, Kirsty E H ^a   Rohland, Nadin ^b,e   Shapiro, Beth ^c   Dobberstein, Reimer C ^d   Ritz Timme, Stefanie ^d   Hofreiter, Michael ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Aspartic acid racemization; Bone; Collagen; Screening

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; COLLAGEN; DNA;

AMINO ACID; BONE; COLLAGEN; DNA; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RACEMIZATION; SAMPLING; SURVIVORSHIP;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE; BUFFALO; COW; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACEMIZATION; TOOTH;

EID: 68249101253     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0563     Document Type: Article

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