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SUBMITTER: Pedersen MW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4275890 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pedersen Mikkel Winther MW Overballe-Petersen Søren S Ermini Luca L Sarkissian Clio Der CD Haile James J Hellstrom Micaela M Spens Johan J Thomsen Philip Francis PF Bohmann Kristine K Cappellini Enrico E Schnell Ida Bærholm IB Wales Nathan A NA Carøe Christian C Campos Paula F PF Schmidt Astrid M Z AM Gilbert M Thomas P MT Hansen Anders J AJ Orlando Ludovic L Willerslev Eske E
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 20150101 1660
DNA obtained from environmental samples such as sediments, ice or water (environmental DNA, eDNA), represents an important source of information on past and present biodiversity. It has revealed an ancient forest in Greenland, extended by several thousand years the survival dates for mainland woolly mammoth in Alaska, and pushed back the dates for spruce survival in Scandinavian ice-free refugia during the last glaciation. More recently, eDNA was used to uncover the past 50 000 years of vegetati ...[more]