High-throughput sequencing of ancient plant and mammal DNA preserved in herbivore middens

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 58, Issue , 2012, Pages 135-145

  Murray, Dáithí C ^a   Pearson, Stuart G ^b   Fullagar, Richard ^c   Chase, Brian M ^d,e   Houston, Jayne ^a   Atchison, Jennifer ^c   White, Nicole E ^a   Bellgard, Matthew I ^a   Clarke, Edward ^f   Macphail, Mike ^g   Gilbert, M Thomas P ^a,h   Haile, James ^a   Bunce, Michael ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^f Rio Tinto Limited Australia   (Australia)

^g AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Arid zone; Herbivore midden; High throughput sequencing; Metabarcoding; Palaeoenvironment

Indexed keywords

ARID ZONES; HERBIVORE MIDDEN; HIGH THROUGHPUT; METABARCODING; PALAEOENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALS; ARID REGIONS; DNA; PLANTS (BOTANY); STREAM FLOW;

GENE ENCODING;

ARID REGION; DNA; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FOSSIL RECORD; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HERBIVORE; LOCAL EXTINCTION; MAMMAL; MIDDEN; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; POLLEN; QUATERNARY; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SURVIVAL;

AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AFRICA; WESTERN CAPE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84868658862     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.10.021     Document Type: Article

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