Browsing School of Genetics & Microbiology by Subject "Parchment"

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    • Paging through history: Parchment as a reservoir of ancient DNA for next generation sequencing 

      BRADLEY, DANIEL (2015)
      Parchment represents an invaluable cultural reservoir. Retrieving an additional layer of information from these abundant, dated livestock-skins via the use of ancient DNA (aDNA) sequencing has been mooted by a number of ...

    • The york gospels: A 1000-year biological palimpsest 

      Bradley, Daniel; Teasdale, Matthew D.; Fiddyment, Sarah; Vnouček, Jiří; Mattiangeli, Valeria; Camilla, Speller; Binois, Annelise; Carver, Martin; Dand, Catherine; Newfield, Timothy P.; Webb, Christopher C.; Collins, Matthew J. (2017)
      Medieval manuscripts, carefully curated and conserved, represent not only an irreplaceable documentary record but also a remarkable reservoir of biological information. Palaeographic and codicological investigation can ...