@article{8e246c90149411ddbee902004c4f4f50,
title = "Whole-genome shotgun sequencing of mitochondria from ancient hair shafts.",
abstract = "Although the application of sequencing-by-synthesis techniques to DNA extracted from bones has revolutionized the study of ancient DNA, it has been plagued by large fractions of contaminating environmental DNA. The genetic analyses of hair shafts could be a solution: We present 10 previously unexamined Siberian mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) mitochondrial genomes, sequenced with up to 48-fold coverage. The observed levels of damage-derived sequencing errors were lower than those observed in previously published frozen bone samples, even though one of the specimens was >50,000 14C years old and another had been stored for 200 years at room temperature. The method therefore sets the stage for molecular-genetic analysis of museum collections.",
author = "Gilbert, {M Thomas P} and Tomsho, {Lynn P} and Snjezana Rendulic and Michael Packard and Drautz, {Daniela I} and Andrei Sher and Alexei Tikhonov and Love Dal{\'e}n and Tatyana Kuznetsova and Pavel Kosintsev and Campos, {Paula F} and Thomas Higham and Collins, {Matthew J} and Wilson, {Andrew S} and Fyodor Shidlovskiy and Bernard Buigues and Ericson, {Per G P} and Mietje Germonpr{\'e} and Anders G{\"o}therstr{\"o}m and Paola Iacumin and Vladimir Nikolaev and Malgosia Nowak-Kemp and Eske Willerslev and Knight, {James R} and Irzyk, {Gerard P} and Perbost, {Clotilde S} and Fredrikson, {Karin M} and Harkins, {Timothy T} and Sharon Sheridan and Webb Miller and Schuster, {Stephan C}",
note = "Keywords: Animals; Bone and Bones; DNA Damage; DNA, Mitochondrial; Elephants; Genes, Mitochondrial; Genome; Hair; History, Ancient; Mitochondria; Molecular Sequence Data; Preservation, Biological; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Siberia; Temperature",
year = "2007",
doi = "10.1126/science.1146971",
language = "English",
volume = "317",
pages = "1927--30",
journal = "Science",
issn = "0036-8075",
publisher = "American Association for the Advancement of Science",
number = "5846",
}