Published July 18, 2022 | Version 1
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Inventory of ancient environmental DNA from sedimentary archives: locations, methods, and target taxa

Creators

  • 1. University of Wyoming, USA
  • 2. McGill University, Canada
  • 3. ICM-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
  • 4. EDYTEM, Bourget-du-lac, France
  • 5. University of Toledo, USA
  • 6. The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

Contributors

  • 1. INRAE, CARRTEL, France
  • 2. Cawthron Institute, New Zealand
  • 3. The University of Adelaide, Australia
  • 4. University of Konstanz, Germany
  • 5. CREAF Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications, Spain
  • 6. University of Milano, Italy
  • 7. University of Colorado Boulder, USA
  • 8. University of Tartu, Estonia
  • 9. nstitute for Mummy Studies, Eurac Research, Bolzano, Italy
  • 10. University of Ottawa, Canada
  • 11. LMU Munich, Germany
  • 12. UiT, Tromsø, Norway
  • 13. Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Germany
  • 14. Maria Curie-Skłodowska University: Lublin, Poland
  • 15. Faculty of Law, Matsuyama University, Matsuyama, Ehime 790-8578, Japan
  • 16. GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
  • 17. GFZ German Research Centre For Geosciences, Germany
  • 18. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
  • 19. Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies, Spain

Description

Locations of sampling sites from sedimentary ancient environmental DNA (aeDNA) studies. aeDNA is DNA that has degraded into short fragments, exhibits post-mortem damage signatures, and is recovered from a non-living tissue, organism, or environmental sample. Here we focus on sedimentary archives with contiguous records such as lake and marine sediments, permafrost, middens, cave sediments, soils, and incidental associated surface sediment samples used to interpret sedimentary archives. Studies span historic and ancient time periods using a variety of DNA-based methods (i.e., metabarcoding, shotgun sequencing, target capture, qPCR, ddPCR, and others) to study taxa from microorganisms to plants and mammals.

Notes

Funding sources: National Science Foundation: NSF-2011295, EPS-1655726, and NSF-1625040. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship. Severo Ochao Excellence Program Postdoctoral Fellowship: CEX2019-000928-S. Knut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation - Wallenberg Academy Fellowship.

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