Palaeogenomics of the Hydrocarbon Producing Microalga Botryococcus braunii
dc.contributor.author | Tennant, RK | |
dc.contributor.author | Lux, T | |
dc.contributor.author | Sambles, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Kuhn, N | |
dc.contributor.author | Petticrew, E | |
dc.contributor.author | Oldfield, R | |
dc.contributor.author | Parker, D | |
dc.contributor.author | Hatton, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Moore, K | |
dc.contributor.author | Lee, R | |
dc.contributor.author | Turney, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Jones, R | |
dc.contributor.author | Love, J | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-02-12T09:04:54Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-02-11 | |
dc.description.abstract | Botryococcus braunii is a colonial microalga that appears early in the fossil record and is a sensitive proxy of environmental and hydroclimatic conditions. Palaeozoic Botryococcus fossils which contribute up to 90% of oil shales and approximately 1% of crude oil, co-localise with diagnostic geolipids from the degradation of source-signature hydrocarbons. However more recent Holocene sediments demonstrate no such association. Consequently, Botryococcus are identifed in younger sediments by morphology alone, where potential misclassifcations could lead to inaccurate paleoenvironmental reconstructions. Here we show that a combination of fow cytometry and ancient DNA (aDNA) sequencing can unambiguously identify Botryococcus microfossils in Holocene sediments with hitherto unparalleled accuracy and rapidity. The application of aDNA sequencing to microfossils ofers a far-reaching opportunity for understanding environmental change in the recent geological record. When allied with other high-resolution palaeoenvironmental information such as aDNA sequencing of humans and megafauna, aDNA from microfossils may allow a deeper and more precise understanding of past environments, ecologies and migrations. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Medical Research Council (MRC) | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Wellcome Trust | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Biotechnology and Biological Science Research Council (BBSRC) | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 9: 1776 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1038/s41598-018-38236-5 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | MR/M008924/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | WT097835MF | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | WT101650MA | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | BB/K003240/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/35900 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Nature Publishing Group | en_GB |
dc.rights | Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. © The Author(s) 2019 | en_GB |
dc.title | Palaeogenomics of the Hydrocarbon Producing Microalga Botryococcus braunii | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2019-02-12T09:04:54Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2045-2322 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available from the publisher via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Scientific Reports | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2018-12-17 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2019-02-11 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2019-02-11T21:18:28Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2019-02-12T09:04:57Z | |
refterms.panel | A | en_GB |
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