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Effect of climate change on permafrost microbiome at the Pleistocene-Holocene and Holocene-Anthropocene transitions
DownloadSpring 2021
Understanding past and future responses of Arctic soil microbes to climate change is critical to an understanding of ecosystem function and climate change feedbacks; the goal of my thesis was to obtain a clearer understanding of these feedbacks. The remnants of the Pleistocene and early Holocene...
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Fall 2015
The study of Ancient DNA (aDNA), DNA recovered from archaeological and historic post mortem material, has complemented the study of anthropology and archaeology. There are several challenges in the retrieval and analysis of DNA from ancient specimens including exogenous contamination with modern...