Paging through history: Parchment as a reservoir of ancient DNA for next generation sequencing

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1660, 2015, Pages

  Teasdale, M D ^a   van Doorn, N L ^b   Fiddyment, S ^b   Webb, C C ^b   O'Connor T ^b   Hofreiter, M ^b,c   Collins, M J ^b   Bradley, D G ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Next generation sequencing; Parchment; Sheep; ZooMS

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; GENOME; HOMOLOGY; LIVESTOCK FARMING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PEPTIDE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHEEP; SKIN; TYPE SPECIMEN;

OVIS ARIES;

DNA;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; EVALUATION STUDY; FOSSIL; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HISTORY; LIVESTOCK; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SHEEP; SKIN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRENDS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; ENGLAND; FOSSILS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; LIVESTOCK; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SHEEP; SKIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84916239469     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0379     Document Type: Article

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