Ancient biomolecules in Quaternary palaeoecology

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 33, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-13

  Hofreiter, Michael ^a   Collins, Matthew ^b   Stewart, John R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b Archaeology and Chemistry   (United Kingdom)

^c BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ancient biomolecules; Ancient DNA; Ancient proteins; Collagen; Pleistocene; Population dynamics; Quaternary palaeoecology; Taxonomic identification

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL SPECIES; DNA DATA SETS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL DYNAMICS; MICROFOSSILS; PALAEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; PROXY DATA; QUATERNARY SCIENCE; SURVIVAL TIME; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATIONS; TEMPERATE REGIONS;

ANIMALS; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BIOMOLECULES; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLLAGEN; DNA; DYNAMICS; ECOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROFITABILITY; PROTEINS; RESEARCH;

GENE ENCODING;

DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FORECASTING METHOD; FOSSIL RECORD; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROTEIN; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RESEARCH WORK; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84856209745     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.11.018     Document Type: Review

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