Cretaceous dinosaur bone contains recent organic material and provides an environment conducive to microbial communities

Fossils were thought to lack original organic molecules, but chemical analyses show that some can survive. Dinosaur bone has been proposed to preserve collagen, osteocytes, and blood vessels. However, proteins and labile lipids are diagenetically unstable, and bone is a porous open system, allowing...

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Autores principales: Saitta, Evan T, Liang, Renxing, Lau, Maggie CY, Brown, Caleb M, Longrich, Nicholas R, Kaye, Thomas G, Novak, Ben J, Salzberg, Steven L, Norell, Mark A, Abbott, Geoffrey D, Dickinson, Marc R, Vinther, Jakob, Bull, Ian D, Brooker, Richard A, Martin, Peter, Donohoe, Paul, Knowles, Timothy DJ, Penkman, Kirsty EH, Onstott, Tullis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2019
Materias:
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6581507/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31210129
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.46205

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