Microsatellites have been popular molecular markers ever since their advent in the late
eighties. Despite growing competition from new genotyping and sequencing techniques, the …

As most biologists are probably aware, technological advances in molecular biology during
the last few years have opened up possibilities to rapidly generate large-scale sequencing …

Claims of extreme survival of DNA have emphasized the need for reliable models of DNA
degradation through time. By analysing mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from 158 radiocarbon …

DNA sequencing technology is undergoing a revolution with the commercialization of
second generation technologies capable of sequencing thousands of millions of nucleotide …

Microsatellites (or SSRs: simple sequence repeats) are among the most frequently used
DNA markers in many areas of research. The use of microsatellite markers is limited by the …

The opening chapters introduce the essential molecular and genetic concepts that underpin
the subject and describe key molecular tools and methods available to the ecologist …

Identification of microsatellites, or simple sequence repeats (SSRs), can be a time-
consuming and costly investment requiring enrichment, cloning, and sequencing of …

In spite of past controversies, the field of ancient DNA is now a reliable research area due to
recent methodological improvements. A series of recent large-scale studies have revealed …

Almost three decades ago Alec Jeffreys published his seminal Nature papers on the use of
minisatellite probes for DNA fingerprinting of humans (Jeffreys and colleagues Nature 1985 …

The invention of next-generation-sequencing has revolutionized almost all fields of genetics,
but few have profited from it as much as the field of ancient DNA research. From its …