Diverse Plant and Animal Genetic Records from Holocene and Pleistocene Sediments

By Eske Willerslev, A. Hansen, Jonas Binladen, Tina B. Brand, M. Gilbert, Beth Shapiro, M. Bunce, C. Wiuf, D. Gilichinsky, Alan Cooper. Science, 2003

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Lake sediment multi-taxon DNA from North Greenland records early post-glacial appearance of vascular plants and accurately tracks environmental changes (2015, background): “Furthermore, the potentially high sensitivity of this approach, which allows detection of organisms even in the absence of visible remains (Willerslev et al., 2003; Haile et al., 2009), makes sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA, Haile et al., 2009) particularly promising for the study of ecosystem…”
An In silico approach for the evaluation of DNA barcodes (2010, methodology): “As example, DNA barcoding has been already used in biodiversity assessment, forensics, diet analysis and paleoecological studies [5-7].”
REVIEW: The detection of aquatic animal species using environmental DNA – a review of eDNA as a survey tool in ecology (2014, methodology): “The monitoring and conservation of aquatic populations using eDNA analysis arose from methods used in diversity assessments of macro-organisms in ancient sediments (Willerslev et al. 2003).”
ecoPrimers: inference of new DNA barcode markers from whole genome sequence analysis (2011, background): “A contrario, metabarcode applications require robust PCR conditions allowing unbiased amplifications from a mix of several DNA templates which are often degraded [DNA extracted from modern and ancient soils (5,6), water (7) or animal feces (8,9)].”
A comparative study of ancient environmental DNA to pollen and macrofossils from lake sediments reveals taxonomic overlap and additional plant taxa (2013, background): “During the last few decades reliable methods for analysing sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) have widened our understanding of past environments and the potential (Willerslev, 2003; Hofreiter et al., 2003; Willerslev et al., 2004a,b; Lydolph et al., 2005; Haile et al., 2009; Hebsgaard et al., 2009; ”
Environmental DNA (2012, methodology): “By discussing methodological ⁄ computational as well as societal challenges, Yoccoz (2012) provides a thorough review of pros and cons of using environmental DNA in ecology and concludes by cautioning the community in addressing a fundamental question: ‘How do we integrate eDNA with more classical a”
Uses and Misuses of Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Science and Conservation (2018, methodology): “Prior use of DNA to evaluate biological assemblages has involved the analysis of ancient DNA (aDNA) extracted from microfossils (Willerslev et al. 2003).”
Assessing the cost‐efficiency of environmental DNA sampling (2016, background): “This approach was originally developed to detect mammal, bird and plant DNA in glacial sediment cores (Willerslev et al. 2003).”
DNA barcoding for ecologists. (2009, background): “permafrost for assessing past animal and plant communities [ 51 ];”
Environmental DNA metabarcoding: Transforming how we survey animal and plant communities (2017, background): “Environmental DNA from terrestrial sediment cores is a valuable tool for investigating past environments and reconstructing animal and plant communities (Figure 1; Haouchar et al., 2014; Jørgensen et al., 2012; Willerslev et al., 2003).”
How will the ‘molecular revolution’ contribute to biological recording? (2015, background): “In 2003, a pioneering study obtained environmental DNA from Pleistocene animal and plant communities in the Siberian permafrost, as well as from more recent (600 to 3000 year old) cave and coastal sediments in New Zealand (Willerslev et al., 2003).”
Towards next‐generation biodiversity assessment using DNA metabarcoding (2012, methodology): “After some initial experiments based on PCR ⁄ cloning ⁄ sequencing (Willerslev et al. 2003, 2007), the approach using NGS has already demonstrated its potential, for analysing plant communities using soil samples (Yoccoz et al. 2012), for reconstructing past plant or animal communities using…”
The ecology of environmental DNA and implications for conservation genetics (2016, background): “Although the detection of ancient DNA in terrestrial (Willerslev et al. 2003; Lydolph et al. 2005; Haile et al. 2009; Hebsgaard et al. 2009; Jørgensen et al. 2012) and aquatic (Matisoo-Smith et al.”
Particle size distribution and optimal capture of aqueous macrobial eDNA (2014, background): “1997), paleogenetics (Hofreiter et al. 2003; Willerslev et al. 2003) and faecal pollution source tracking (Martellini, Payment&Villemur 2005), it was only in 2008 that eDNA was first used to detect aquatic macrofauna (Ficetola et al.”