Scrapheap Challenge: A novel bulk-bone metabarcoding method to investigate ancient DNA in faunal assemblages

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Murray, Dáithí C ^a,d   Haile, James ^a,d   Dortch, Joe ^b   White, Nicole E ^a,d   Haouchar, Dalal ^a   Bellgard, Matthew I ^a   Allcock, Richard J ^b   Prideaux, Gavin J ^c   Bunce, Michael ^a,d  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARCHEOLOGY; AUSTRALIA; BONE; FOSSIL; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ARCHAEOLOGY; AUSTRALIA; BONE AND BONES; DNA; FOSSILS;

EID: 84889583468     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03371     Document Type: Article

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