Genomic Sequencing of Pleistocene Cave Bears
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Genomic sequencing of Pleistocene cave bears.
Despite the greater information content of genomic DNA, ancient DNA studies have largely been limited to the amplification of mitochondrial sequences. Here we describe metagenomic libraries constructed with unamplified DNA extracted from skeletal remains of two 40,000-year-old extinct cave bears. Analysis of approximately 1 megabase of sequence from each library showed that despite significant ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Science
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0036-8075,1095-9203
DOI: 10.1126/science.1113485