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Figure 5

From: Quantification of damage in DNA recovered from highly degraded samples – a case study on DNA in faeces

Figure 5

Plots showing estimated proportion of amplifiable fragments versus amplicon size for various DNA extracts. The predator and prey faecal DNA curves use the mean λ values determined in the current study for sea lion DNA (λ = 0.0106) and herring DNA (λ = 0.0176). The ancient faecal DNA λ was estimated from published data [17] on the quantity of sloth mtDNA in a late Pleistocene sloth coprolite (λ = 0.033). The mammoth DNA λ (0.007) was also estimated from published data [26].

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Frontiers in Zoology

ISSN: 1742-9994