Summary
Dear sedaDNA enthusiasts,
Hello and welcome to the October newsletter! This month has come around quickly, it has been a particularly busy one for some, especially me. For for those of you who have just started a new academic year, I hope that it has gone smoothly. Over the course of September, 8 papers and 1 preprint have been published.
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We hope that you have a fantastic October,
The organising board
New papers
Jazmín Ramos Madrigal et al., (2026) published "Ancient DNA preservation in the Caribbean" in Royal Society Open Science.
Monisha Balasubramaniyan et al., (2026) published "SPredicted shifts in microbial functional potential across the late glacial to holocene transition: a 16S rRNA-based inference from southeastern Arabian Sea sediments" in Antonie van Leeuwenhoek.
Xaali O'Reilly-Berkeley et al., (2026) published "Holocene vegetation dynamics of Grande Terre (Kerguelen Islands) inferred from sedimentary ancient DNA" in the Journal of Quaternary Science.
Tyler J. Murchie et al., (2026) published "Sedimentary Ancient DNA Tracks Multi-Kingdom Ecosystem Reorganizations Following Sequential Human Land Use at Crawford Lake" in Molecular Ecology.
Yu Feng et al., (2026) published "Differential responses of algal ecosystems in freshwater and Saline Lakes on the northeastern Tibetan plateau to climate and anthropogenic disturbances" in Ecological Indicators.
Kadir Toykan Özdoğan et al., (2026) published "Towards an Archaeological Workflow for SedaDNA Sample Collection: Methods and Best Practices for Minimising Surface Contamination" in The Journal of Human Palaeoecology.
Erika Ferreira Rodrigues et al., (2026) published "Field sampling guidelines for sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) research in lacustrine and coastal systems: from field collection to laboratory subsampling" in Anthropocene Coasts.
Nihan Dilşad Dağtaş et al., (2026) published "Evaluating Rapid Extraction Methods for Recovering Ancient DNA From Archaeological Sediments" in Environmental DNA.
Preprints
Lucinda Duxbury et al., (2026) submitted the preprint "Borealisation of an Arctic marine ecosystem during the Last Interglacial" available on Research Square.
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