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Science 7 November 2008:
Vol. 322. no. 5903, p. 857
DOI: 10.1126/science.1158417
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Technical Comments

Comment on "Whole-Genome Shotgun Sequencing of Mitochondria from Ancient Hair Shafts"

Regis Debruyne*, Carsten Schwarz and Hendrik Poinar

McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton L8S 4L9, ON, Canada.


Figure 1 Fig. 1. Quantitative analysis of ancient mammoth DNA extracted from hair and bone from the (A) Lyakhov and (B) Jarkov specimens. Proportions of qPCR copy numbers for all mitochondrial assays shown per fragment size (given in bp) and tissue type extracted. [View Larger Version of this Image (20K GIF file)]
 

Figure 2 Fig. 2. Qualitative analysis of ancient mammoth DNA extracted from bone and hair presented as mitochondrial DNA degradation profiles as estimated per Deagle et al.'s regression model (13). Regression lines are shown for all extracts (see table S1 for original data). [View Larger Version of this Image (14K GIF file)]
 

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