📋 Tender Overview
Investigating Mammalian Evolution Using Million-Year Genomic Transects
Extending Limits Of Ancient Dna Investigationthe Field Of Ancient Dna Contributes To Evolutionary Biology And Palaeontology, But Nearly All Ancient Dna Studies Up To Date Have Focused On Samples From The Last 50 000 Years. The Eu-Funded Primigenomes Project Aims To Study Evolution On A Million-Year Time Scale. The Goal Is To Develop And Apply Novel Palaeogenomic Methods To Extend The Limits Of Dna Recovery To Address Questions Which Previously Were Beyond The Reach Of Ancient Dna Research. The Specific Objective Is To Sequence One Hundred Ancient Genomes Recovered From The Early And Middle Pleistocene Remains Of Multiple Holarctic Mammalian Species. This Approach Will Provide The Possibility To Examine Macroevolutionary Changes Across Periods Of Pleistocene Climate Change And Subsequent Speciation Events.
Funded Under
European Research Council (Erc)
Total Cost
€ 2 500 000,00
Eu Contribution
€ 2 500 000,00
Coordinated By
Stockholms Universitet
Sweden
