Most recent scientific research progress in DNA

Most recent scientific research progress in DNA

Metagenomics to Paleogenomics: Large-Scale Sequencing of Mammoth DNA

Hendrik N. Poinar, Carsten Schwarz, Ji Qi, Beth Shapiro, Ross D. E. MacPhee, Bernard Buigues, Alexei Tikhonov, Daniel H. Huson, Lynn P. Tomsho, Alexander Auch, Markus Rampp, Webb Miller, and Stephan C. Schuster
Science 20 January 2006 311: 392-394; published online 20 December 2005 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1123360] (in Reports)

......Paleogenomics: Large-Scale Sequencing of Mammoth DNA Hendrik N. Poinar 1 2 3 * Carsten Schwarz...psu.edu (S.C.S.) 1 McMaster Ancient DNA Center, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street...We sequenced 28 million base pairs of DNA in a metagenomics approach, using a woolly......

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Ancient DNA from the First European Farmers in 7500-Year-Old Neolithic Sites

Wolfgang Haak, Peter Forster, Barbara Bramanti, Shuichi Matsumura, Guido Brandt, Marc Tänzer, Richard Villems, Colin Renfrew, Detlef Gronenborn, Kurt Werner Alt, and Joachim Burger
Science 11 November 2005 310: 1016-1018 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1118725] (in Reports)

......Report Reports ANTHRO Ancient DNA from the First European Farmers in 7500...Here we present an analysis of ancient DNA from early European farmers. We successfully...stretches of maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from 24 out of 57 Neolithic skeletons......

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Ancient DNA Evidence for Old World Origin of New World Dogs

Jennifer A. Leonard, Robert K. Wayne, Jane Wheeler, Raúl Valadez, Sonia Guillén, and Carles Vilà
Science 22 November 2002 298: 1613-1616 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1076980] (in Reports)

...Reports EVOLUTION Ancient DNA Evidence for Old World Origin of New World...DC 20008-0551, USA. Mitochondrial DNA sequences isolated from ancient dog remains...them (13, 14). Consequently, we extracted DNA from bones of 37 dog specimens from archaeological......

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Rates of Evolution in Ancient DNA from Adélie Penguins

D. M. Lambert, P. A. Ritchie, C. D. Millar, B. Holland, A. J. Drummond, and C. Baroni
Science 22 March 2002 295: 2270-2273 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1068105] (in Reports)

......EVOLUTION Rates of Evolution in Ancient DNA from Ad e a lie Penguins D. M...harbor some of the best-preserved ancient DNA yet discovered. From 96 radiocarbon-aged...380 living birds sampled. We demonstrate DNA sequence evolution through time and estimate......

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Sequencing and Analysis of Neanderthal Genomic DNA

James P. Noonan, Graham Coop, Sridhar Kudaravalli, Doug Smith, Johannes Krause, Joe Alessi, Feng Chen, Darren Platt, Svante Pääbo, Jonathan K. Pritchard, and Edward M. Rubin
Science 17 November 2006 314: 1113-1118 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1131412] (in Research Articles)

......Sequencing and Analysis of Neanderthal Genomic DNA James P. Noonan 1 2 Graham Coop 3...targeted method for recovering specific ancient DNA sequences from metagenomic libraries. This...advances in metagenomic analysis of complex DNA mixtures now provide a strategy to recover......

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EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY:
Ancient DNA Untangles Evolutionary Paths

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 22 March 2002 295: 2197 [DOI: 10.1126/science.295.5563.2197] (in News of the Week)

......-week EVOLUTION EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY: Ancient DNA Untangles Evolutionary Paths Elizabeth Pennisi Evolutionary biology. Ancient DNA untangles evolutionary paths. | Comment | News | 0 DNA, Mitochondrial | Science. 2002 Mar 22;295(5563......

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Amino Acid Racemization and the Preservation of Ancient DNA

Hendrik N. Poinar, Matthias Höss, Jeffrey L. Bada, and Svante Pääbo
Science 10 May 1996 272: 864-866 [DOI: 10.1126/science.272.5263.864] (in Reports)

......racemization and the preservation of ancient DNA. | The extent of racemization of aspartic...ancient tissue samples contain endogenous DNA. In samples in which the D/L ratio of aspartic acid exceeds 0.08, ancient DNA sequences could not be retrieved. Paleontological......

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Chloroplast DNA Evidence on the Ancient Evolutionary Split in Vascular Land Plants

LINDA A. RAUBESON and ROBERT K. JANSEN
Science 27 March 1992 255: 1697-1699 [DOI: 10.1126/science.255.5052.1697] (in Articles)

......Science ARTICLE ARTICLE Chloroplast DNA Evidence on the Ancient Evolutionary Split...vascular plant evolution. The chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) gene order is known to contain an...early vascular land plants. Chloroplast DNA Evidence on the Ancient Evolutionary Split......

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Human DNA Repair Genes

Richard D. Wood, Michael Mitchell, John Sgouros, and Tomas Lindahl
Science 16 February 2001 291: 1284-1289 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1056154] (in Reports)

...Reports MOLEC BIOL Human DNA Repair Genes Richard D. Wood Michael...Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA. Cellular DNA is subjected to continual attack, both...pathways of repair, and 130 known human DNA repair genes are described here. Notable......

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Quality Control by DNA Repair

Tomas Lindahl and Richard D. Wood
Science 3 December 1999 286: 1897-1905 [DOI: 10.1126/science.286.5446.1897] (in Review)

...Quality Control by DNA Repair Tomas Lindahl and...crucial to the individual and to species. DNA damage arises from both endogenous sources...that counteract the mutagenic effects of DNA lesions. This serves to maintain the integrity......

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