Islands in the ice: Detecting past vegetation on Greenlandic nunataks using historical records and sedimentary ancient DNA Meta-barcoding

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1980-1988

  Jørgensen, Tina ^a   Kjær, Kurt H ^a   Haile, James ^a,b   Rasmussen, Morten ^a   Boessenkool, Sanne ^c   Andersen, Kenneth ^a   Coissac, Eric ^d   Taberlet, Pierre ^d   Brochmann, Christian ^c   Orlando, Ludovic ^a   Gilbert, M Thomas P ^a   Willerslev, Eske ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Arctic; meta barcoding; nunatak; sedimentary plant ancient DNA

Indexed keywords

ICE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PLANT DNA;

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DNA BARCODING; FOSSIL; GENETICS; GREENLAND; HISTORY; ICE COVER; METHODOLOGY; PLANT; SEDIMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ARCTIC REGIONS; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, PLANT; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GREENLAND; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; ICE; ICE COVER; PLANTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84859603942     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05278.x     Document Type: Article

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