Ancient DNA analysis

L Orlando, R Allaby, P Skoglund… - Nature reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Although the first ancient DNA molecules were extracted more than three decades ago, the
first ancient nuclear genomes could only be characterized after high-throughput sequencing …

[HTML][HTML] The bad and the good—microorganisms in cultural heritage environments—an update on biodeterioration and biotreatment approaches

A Pyzik, K Ciuchcinski, M Dziurzynski, L Dziewit - Materials, 2021 - mdpi.com
Cultural heritage objects constitute a very diverse environment, inhabited by various
bacteria and fungi. The impact of these microorganisms on the degradation of artworks is …

[HTML][HTML] The history and diversity of rice domestication as resolved from 1464 complete plastid genomes

W He, C Chen, K Xiang, J Wang, P Zheng… - Frontiers in plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The plastid is an essential organelle in autotrophic plant cells, descending from free-living
cyanobacteria and acquired by early eukaryotic cells through endosymbiosis roughly one …

Ancient genomes reveal early Andean farmers selected common beans while preserving diversity

E Trucchi, A Benazzo, M Lari, A Iob, S Vai, L Nanni… - Nature Plants, 2021 - nature.com
All crops are the product of a domestication process that started less than 12,000 years ago
from one or more wild populations,. Farmers selected desirable phenotypic traits (such as …

[HTML][HTML] Forest history—New perspectives for an old discipline

B Muigg, W Tegel - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The scientific field of forest history studies the development of woodlands and their
interrelationship with past human societies. During the last decades, the subject has …

[HTML][HTML] Extraction and high-throughput sequencing of oak heartwood DNA: Assessing the feasibility of genome-wide DNA methylation profiling

F Rossi, A Crnjar, F Comitani, R Feliciano, L Jahn… - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Tree ring features are affected by environmental factors and therefore are the basis for
dendrochronological studies to reconstruct past environmental conditions. Oak wood often …

[HTML][HTML] Range-wide assessment of a SNP panel for individualization and geolocalization of bigleaf maple (Acer macrophyllum Pursh)

RC Cronn, KN Finch, LL Hauck… - Forensic Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Illegal logging is a worldwide problem that degrades ecosystems, and even low-risk markets
like the United States report~ 1000 significant hardwood timber theft cases per year. Due to …

Oak population genomics

O Gailing, AL Hipp, C Plomion, JE Carlson - 2021 - Springer
Oaks (genus Quercus) are foundation tree species significantly affecting community
assembly and ecosystem functions. Their ecological importance, high diversity in adaptive …

[HTML][HTML] 基于基因组高通量测序方法精准鉴定植物遗存——河南崔寨遗址案例

牛帼豪, 曹艳朋, 韦蒙, 朱树政, 秦岭, 孔昭宸, 高天刚… - 第四纪研究, 2021 - dsjyj.com.cn
本研究尝试利用基因组高通量测序方法精准鉴定植物遗存, 遗存来自河南周口市崔寨遗址.
本项工作提取了植物遗存材料中的基因组DNA, 使用Illumina 测序平台对该植物遗存的基因组 …

Accurate identification of archaeobotanical remains based on high-throughput genome sequencing methods: A case study from Cuizhai site of Henan Province

G NIU, Y CAO, M WEI, S ZHU, L QIN, Z KONG… - Quaternary …, 2021 - dsjyj.com.cn
In this study, we tried to explore new methods of high-throughput genome sequencing to
accurately identify a plant remains unearthed from the Cuizhai site (33 52'37.09 ″N, 115 …