Ancient DNA preserved in small bone fragments from the P.W. Lund collection.

ABSTRACT: The Lund collection is one of the oldest subfossil collections in the world. The vast assemblage of subfossils was collected in the 1830s and 1840s by Peter Wilhelm Lund in Lagoa Santa, Brazil, and was shipped to Copenhagen in 1848, where it was stored in various locations around the city with little attention for the future preservation of the collection. So far, successful genetic research on the material collected by Lund has been limited to two samples of human petrous bone. However, less is known about the preservation conditions of the vast amounts of small and fragmentary bones stored in the collection. To address this, we studied ancient DNA from bulk bone samples of approximately 100 bone fragments from the P.W. Lund collection from boxes with varying degrees of physical preservat

SUBMITTER: Seersholm FV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7920760 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature