Modern, archaeological, and paleontological DNA analysis of a human-harvested marine gastropod (Strombus pugilis) from Caribbean Panama
A. P. Sullivan, S. Marciniak, A. O'Dea, T. A. Wake, G. H. Perry
The paper develops a method to extract and sequence DNA from marine conch shells across different time periods and compares ancient DNA to modern samples to study human impacts on mollusc evolution.
bioRxiv · Aug 26, 2020Evolutionary Biology