Research Catalog

Title

Ancient DNA / [edited by] Bernd Herrmann, Susanne Hummel.

Publication

New York : Springer-Verlag, 1994.

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Additional Authors

• Herrmann, Bernd, 1946-
• Hummel, Susanne.

Description

xi, 263 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subjects

• Paleontology
• Fossils
• Paleopathology
• DNA > Analysis
• Paleobiology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Introduction / Bernd Herrmann and Susanne Hummel -- 2. Simple Repeat Loci as Tools for Genetic Identification / Jorg T. Epplen -- 3. Spatial and Temporal Aspects of Populations Revealed by Mitochondrial DNA / Francis X. Villablanca -- 4. General Aspects of Sample Preparation / Susanne Hummel and Bernd Herrmann -- 5. Screening for Pathogenic DNA Sequences in Clinically Collected Human Tissues / Wayne W. Grody -- 6. DNA from Amber Inclusions / George O. Poinar, Jr., Hendrik N. Poinar and Raul J. Cano -- 7. DNA Analysis of the Windover Population / William W. Hauswirth, Cynthia D. Dickel and David A. Lawlor -- 8. DNA from Arctic Human Burials / Henrik Nielsen, Jan Engberg and Ingolf Thuesen -- 9. DNA Typing of Biological Evidence Material / George F. Sensabaugh -- 10. DNA from Museum Specimens / Alan Cooper -- 11. DNA from Herbarium Specimens / John W. Taylor and Eric C. Swann.
• 12. High-Fidelity Amplification of Ribosomal Gene Sequences from South American Mummies / Peter K. Rogan and Joseph J. Salvo -- 13. Mitochondrial DNA from Ancient Bones / Erika Hagelberg -- 14. Y-Chromosomal DNA from Ancient Bones / Susanne Hummel and Bernd Herrmann -- 15. Genomic DNA from Museum Bird Feathers / Hans Ellegren -- 16. DNA and RNA from Ancient Plant Seeds / Franco Rollo, Franco Maria Venanzi and Augusto Amici -- 17. DNA from Plant Compression Fossils / Edward M. Golenberg.

ISBN

• 0387979298
• 3540979298

LCCN

92049549

OCLC

• 502483610
• ocn502483610

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries