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'Ancient' DNA in the resting egg bank of a microcrustacean can serve as a palaeolimnological database.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 Feb 2002
Limburg Petra A, Weider Lawrence J
Abstract excerpt
Recent work on the diapausing egg banks of zooplankton, such as Daphnia (Crustacea: Anomopoda), indicates that these eggs can remain viable for decades while, theoretically, DNA can remain intact for even longer periods (i.e. centuries or millennia). We isolated diapausing eggs of Daphnia from a 30 m long sediment core taken from a hypereutrophic, northern German lake (Belauer See), with some eggs found in dated...
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