Temporal patterns of damage and decay kinetics of DNA retrieved from plant herbarium specimens
Clemens L Weiß, Verena J Schuenemann, Jane Devos, Gautam Shirsekar, Ella Reiter, Billie A Gould, John R Stinchcombe, Johannes Krause, Hernán A Burbano
The paper analyzes DNA degradation in herbarium specimens over 300 years, finding exponential fragmentation and specific mutation patterns.
bioRxiv · Jul 24, 2015Evolutionary Biology