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- Title
No ancient DNA damage in Actinobacteria from the Neanderthal bone.
- Authors
Zaremba-Niedźwiedzka, Katarzyna; Andersson, Siv G E
- Abstract
The Neanderthal genome was recently sequenced using DNA extracted from a 38,000-year-old fossil. At the start of the project, the fraction of mammalian and bacterial DNA in the sample was estimated to be <6% and 9%, respectively. Treatment with restriction enzymes prior to sequencing increased the relative proportion of mammalian DNA to 15%, but the large majority of sequences remain uncharacterized.
- Publication
PloS one, 2013, Vol 8, Issue 5, pe62799
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0062799