Using palaeoenvironmental DNA to reconstruct past environments: progress and prospects

NJ Rawlence, DJ Lowe, JR Wood… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Palaeoenvironmental DNA (PalEnDNA) is defined as ancient DNA (aDNA) originating from
disseminated genetic material within palaeoenvironmental samples. Sources of PalEnDNA …

On the use of spores of coprophilous fungi preserved in sediments to indicate past herbivore presence

CM Lee, B van Geel, WD Gosling - Quaternary, 2022 - mdpi.com
Fungal spores that grew on the faeces of herbivores in the past can be extracted from
sediments and used to identify the presence of herbivores in former ecosystems. This …

NPP-ID: Non-Pollen Palynomorph Image Database as a research and educational platform

LS Shumilovskikh, ES Shumilovskikh, F Schlütz… - Vegetation History and …, 2022 - Springer
Non-pollen palynomorphs (NPPs) form a large group of biological objects found in
palynological slides besides pollen grains. This includes various remains of algae and fungi …

Late Pleistocene shrub expansion preceded megafauna turnover and extinctions in eastern Beringia

AJ Monteath, BV Gaglioti… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The collapse of the steppe-tundra biome (mammoth steppe) at the end of the Pleistocene is
used as an important example of top-down ecosystem cascades, where human hunting of …

Evidence of Ice Age humans in eastern Beringia suggests early migration to North America

RS Vachula, Y Huang, WM Longo, SG Dee… - Quaternary Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Our understanding of the timing and pathway of human arrival to the Americas remains an
important and polarizing topic of debate in archaeology and anthropology. Traditional …

Fungal palaeodiversity revealed using high‐throughput metabarcoding of ancient DNA from arctic permafrost

E Bellemain, ML Davey, H Kauserud… - Environmental …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The taxonomic and ecological diversity of ancient fungal communities was assessed by
combining next generation sequencing and metabarcoding of DNA preserved in permafrost …

Dung fungi as a proxy for megaherbivores: opportunities and limitations for archaeological applications

AG Perrotti, E Van Asperen - Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 2019 - Springer
The use of spores of coprophilous fungi from sedimentary sequences as proxy evidence for
large herbivore abundance has garnered pronounced attention and scrutiny over the past …

Pollen and non-pollen palynomorph indicators of vegetation and highland grazing activities obtained from modern surface and dung datasets in the eastern Pyrenees

A Ejarque, Y Miras, S Riera - Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper presents the study of modern pollen and non-pollen palynomorph assemblages
carried out along an altitudinal gradient from 1242 to 2541m asl in the south-eastern …

Gamma-aminobutyric acid enriched rice bran diet attenuates insulin resistance and balances energy expenditure via modification of gut microbiota and short-chain …

X Si, W Shang, Z Zhou, G Shui, SM Lam… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2018 - ACS Publications
In this study, gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) enriched rice bran (ERB) was supplemented
to obese rats to investigate the attenuation of metabolic syndromes induced by high-fat diet …

Thresholds for the presence of glacial megafauna in central Europe during the last 60,000 years

F Sirocko, J Albert, S Britzius, F Dreher… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Lake sediment records from Holzmaar and the infilled maar of Auel (Eifel, Germany) are
used to reconstruct landscape changes and megafauna abundances. Our data document a …