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Environmental palaeogenomic reconstruction of an Ice Age algal population.
Communications biology - 16 Feb 2021
Lammers Youri, Heintzman Peter D, Alsos Inger Greve
Abstract excerpt
Palaeogenomics has greatly increased our knowledge of past evolutionary and ecological change, but has been restricted to the study of species that preserve either as or within fossils. Here we show the potential of shotgun metagenomics to reveal population genomic information for a taxon that does not preserve in the body fossil record, the algae Nannochloropsis. We shotgun sequenced two lake sediment samples...
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