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10.1126/science.1147046

Author(s)

Mike Buckley
Angela Walker
Simon Y. W. Ho
Colin Smith
Peter Ashton
Enrico Cappellini
Hannah Koon
Ben Elsworth
Dave Ashford
Phillip Andrews
John Strahler
Beth Shapiro
Peggy Ostrom
Hasand Gandhi
Webb Miller
Brian Raney
Maria Ines Zylber
M. Thomas P. Gilbert
Richard V. Prigodich
Michael Ryan
Kenneth F. Rijsdijk
Anwar Janoo

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Publication details

Journal	Science
Date	Published - 4 Jan 2008
Issue number	5859
Volume	319
Number of pages	3
Pages (from-to)	33
Original language	English

Abstract

We used authentication tests developed for ancient DNA to evaluate claims by Asara et al. (Reports, 13 April 2007, p. 280) of collagen peptide sequences recovered from mastodon and Tyrannosaurus rex fossils. Although the mastodon samples pass these tests, absence of amino acid composition data, lack of evidence for peptide deamidation, and association of α1(I) collagen sequences with amphibians rather than birds suggest that T. rex does not.

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ANCIENT DNA, COLLAGEN

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