3 papers
q-bio.PE2025
Sedimentary models of fossil biomolecules, principles and methodological improvements
Wan-Qian Zhao, Li-Juan Zhao
Deamination has historically been important for authenticating ancient biomolecules. However, expanding paleogenomic datasets indicate that damage patterns are more influenced by b…
q-bio.GN2024
DNA Fragments in Crude Oil Reveals Earth's Hidden History
Wan-Qian Zhao, Zhan-Yong Guo, Yu-Qi Guo +16
This groundbreaking research extracted DNA from petroleum using nanoparticle affinity bead technology, yielding 3,159,020 petroleum DNA (pDNA) sequences, primarily environmental DN…
q-bio.GN2024
Ancient DNA from 120-Million-Year-Old Lycoptera Fossils Reveals Evolutionary Insights
Wan-Qian Zhao, Zhan-Yong Guo, Zeng-Yuan Tian +20
High quality ancient DNA (aDNA) is essential for molecular paleontology. Due to DNA degradation and contamination by environmental DNA (eDNA), current research is limited to fossil…