Mitogenomic analyses from ancient DNA.

摘要: The analysis of ancient DNA is playing an increasingly important role in conservation genetic, phylogenetic and population genetic analyses, as it allows incorporating extinct species into sequence trees adds time depth to genetics studies. For many years, these types analyses (whether using modern or DNA) were largely restricted the short fragments mitochondrial genome. However, due technological advances during past decade, a growing number studies have explored power complete genome sequences (mitogenomes). Such initially limited extant organisms, but developments both sequencing technologies general methodological aspects related working with degraded resulted mitogenomes becoming popular for well. To date, at least 124 partially fully assembled from more than 20 been obtained, and, given rapid progress technology, this likely dramatically increase future. increased information content offered by analysing full has yielded major regard positions species, well resolving questions species.