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Improved recovery of ancient DNA from subfossil wood - application to the world's oldest Late Glacial pine forest

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LENDVAY Bertalan HARTMANN Martin BRODBECK Sabine NIEVERGELT Daniel REINIG Frederick ZOLLER Stefan PARDUCCI Laura GUGERLI Felix BÜNTGEN Ulf SPERISEN Christoph

Rok publikování 2018
Druh Článek v odborném periodiku
Časopis / Zdroj New Phytologist
Fakulta / Pracoviště MU

Přírodovědecká fakulta

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www https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.14935
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.14935
Klíčová slova ancient DNA; DNA metabarcoding; experimental contamination; laser cleaning; post-mortem DNA damage; subfossil wood
Popis Ancient DNA from historical and subfossil wood has a great potential to provide new insights into the history of tree populations. However, its extraction and analysis have not become routine, mainly because contamination of the wood with modern plant material can complicate the verification of genetic information. Here, we used sapwood tissue from 22 subfossil pines that were growing c. 13000yr bp in Zurich, Switzerland. We developed and evaluated protocols to eliminate surface contamination, and we tested ancient DNA authenticity based on plastid DNA metabarcoding and the assessment of post-mortem DNA damage. A novel approach using laser irradiation coupled with bleaching and surface removal was most efficient in eliminating contaminating DNA. DNA metabarcoding confirmed which ancient DNA samples repeatedly amplified pine DNA and were free of exogenous plant taxa. Pine DNA sequences of these samples showed a high degree of cytosine to thymine mismatches, typical of post-mortem damage. Stringent decontamination of wood surfaces combined with DNA metabarcoding and assessment of post-mortem DNA damage allowed us to authenticate ancient DNA retrieved from the oldest Late Glacial pine forest. These techniques can be applied to any subfossil wood and are likely to improve the accessibility of relict wood for genome-scale ancient DNA studies.

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