Proxy comparison in ancient peat sediments: Pollen, macrofossil and plant DNA

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1660, 2015, Pages

  Parducci, Laura ^a,b   Väliranta, Minna ^c   Sakari Salonen, J ^c   Ronkainen, Tiina ^c   Matetovici, Irina ^d   Fontana, Sonia L ^e,i   Eskola, Tiina ^f   Sarala, Pertti ^g   Suyama, Yoshihisa ^h  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^e QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^g GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^h TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Barcoding; Holocene; Plant macrofossils; Pollen; Weichselian interstadial

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; FLORISTICS; FOSSIL; HOLOCENE; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOBOTANY; PEAT; POLLEN; SEDIMENT;

EUROPE; POLAND; VISTULA RIVER;

PLANT DNA; SOIL;

CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FINLAND; FOSSIL; GENETICS; HISTORY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLLEN; PROCEDURES; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEDIMENT; SOIL;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, PLANT; FINLAND; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLLEN; RUSSIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL;

EID: 84916232531     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0382     Document Type: Article

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