Biomolecular analyses reveal the age, sex and species identity of a near-intact Pleistocene bird carcass
Dussex, Nicolas ; Stanton, David W.G. ; Sigeman, Hanna LU ; Ericson, Per G.P. ; Gill, Jacquelyn ; Fisher, Daniel C. ; Protopopov, Albert V. ; Herridge, Victoria L. ; Plotnikov, Valery and Hansson, Bengt LU
, et al.
(2020)
In Communications Biology
3(1).
- Abstract
Ancient remains found in permafrost represent a rare opportunity to study past ecosystems. Here, we present an exceptionally well-preserved ancient bird carcass found in the Siberian permafrost, along with a radiocarbon date and a reconstruction of its complete mitochondrial genome. The carcass was radiocarbon dated to approximately 44-49 ka BP, and was genetically identified as a female horned lark. This is a species that usually inhabits open habitat, such as the steppe environment that existed in Siberia at the time. This near-intact carcass highlights the potential of permafrost remains for evolutionary studies that combine both morphology and ancient nucleic acids.
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- Dussex, Nicolas
; Stanton, David W.G.
; Sigeman, Hanna
LU
; Ericson, Per G.P.
; Gill, Jacquelyn
; Fisher, Daniel C.
; Protopopov, Albert V.
; Herridge, Victoria L.
; Plotnikov, Valery
and Hansson, Bengt
LU
, et al. (More)
- Dussex, Nicolas
; Stanton, David W.G.
; Sigeman, Hanna
LU
; Ericson, Per G.P.
; Gill, Jacquelyn
; Fisher, Daniel C.
; Protopopov, Albert V.
; Herridge, Victoria L.
; Plotnikov, Valery
; Hansson, Bengt
LU
and Dalén, Love
LU
(Less)
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- 2020-02-21
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- Communications Biology
- volume
- 3
- issue
- 1
- article number
- 84
- publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
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- pmid:32081985
- scopus:85079765677
- ISSN
- 2399-3642
- DOI
- 10.1038/s42003-020-0806-7
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- English
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