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From: Ancient DNA from lake sediments: Bridging the gap between paleoecology and genetics

Figure 2

Inhibition quantitation assay. Graph depicts fluorescence values against cycle of appearance along a 45 cycle quantitative PCR reaction. Gray lines are 10 samples from our ancient DNA extracts and 10 1:10 dilutions of those samples, all spiked with a 250 copy standard. Black lines are the dilution series of mammoth DNA from 31,250 copies to 0.4 copies, with the 250 copy standard highlighted in bold. Solid red lines are negative controls and dashed red lines are our "weak" negative controls, used here to illustrate the risks associated with not separating pre- and post-PCR processing.

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