TY - JOUR
T1 - Evolutionary patterns and processes
T2 - lessons from ancient DNA
AU - Leonardi, Michela
AU - Sanz, Pablo Librado
AU - Der Sarkissian, Clio
AU - Schubert, Mikkel
AU - Alfarhan, Ahmed H.
AU - Alquraishi, Saleh A.
AU - Al-Rasheid, Khaled A. S.
AU - Gamba, Cristina
AU - Willerslev, Eske
AU - Orlando, Ludovic Antoine Alexandre
N1 - © The Author(s) 2016. Published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of the Society of Systematic Biologists. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: [email protected].
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - 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 a wealth 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. [Ancient DNA; metagenomics; palaeogenomics; population genomics; temporal sampling.].
AB - 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 a wealth 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. [Ancient DNA; metagenomics; palaeogenomics; population genomics; temporal sampling.].
U2 - 10.1093/sysbio/syw059
DO - 10.1093/sysbio/syw059
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 28173586
VL - 66
SP - e1-e29
JO - Systematic Biology
JF - Systematic Biology
SN - 1063-5157
IS - 1
M1 - syw059
ER -