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- Title
Evolutionary Patterns and Processes: Lessons from Ancient DNA.
- Authors
LEONARDI, MICHELA; LIBRADO, PABLO; DER SARKISSIAN, CLIO; SCHUBERT, MIKKEL; ALFARHAN, AHMED H.; ALQURAISHI, SALEH A.; AL-RASHEID, KHALED A. S.; GAMBA, CRISTINA; WILLERSLEV, ESKE; ORLANDO, LUDOVIC
- Abstract
Ever since its emergence in 1984, the field of ancient DNA has struggled to overcome the challenges related to the decay of DNA molecules in the fossil record. With the recent development of high-throughput DNA sequencing technologies and molecular techniques tailored to ultra-damaged templates, it has now come of age, merging together approaches in phylogenomics, population genomics, epigenomics, and metagenomics. Leveraging on complete temporal sample series, ancient DNA provides direct access to the most important dimension in evolution-time, allowing awealth of fundamental evolutionary processes to be addressed at unprecedented resolution. This review taps into the most recent findings in ancient DNA research to present analyses of ancient genomic and metagenomic data.
- Subjects
FOSSIL DNA; NUCLEOTIDE sequencing; STATISTICAL methods in evolution; PHYLOGENY; GENOMICS
- Publication
Systematic Biology, 2017, Vol 66, Issue 1, pe1
- ISSN
1063-5157
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/sysbio/syw059