Mining ancient microbiomes using selective enrichment of damaged DNA molecules

Abstract Background The identification of bona fide microbial taxa in microbiomes derived from ancient and historical samples is complicated by the unavoidable mixture between DNA from ante- and post-mortem microbial colonizers. One possibility to distinguish between these sources of microbial DNA i...

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Main Authors: Clemens L. Weiß, Marie-Theres Gansauge, Ayinuer Aximu-Petri, Matthias Meyer, Hernán A. Burbano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-06-01
Series:BMC Genomics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12864-020-06820-7