Oxytropidoceras Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 Could proteins found in dinosaur fossils come from microbes? A new study continues the debate over whether or not scientists have discovered fragments of actual dino proteins by Laura Howes, Chemical & Engineering News https://cen.acs.org/analytical-chemistry/art-&-artifacts/proteins-found-dinosaur-fossils-come-from-microbes/97/i27 Evan T Saitta, Renxing Liang, Maggie CY Lau, Caleb M Brown, Nicholas R Longrich, Thomas G Kaye, Ben J Novak, Steven L Salzberg, and Mark A Norell. 2019. Cretaceous dinosaur bone contains recent organic material and provides an environment conducive to microbial communities. eLife https://elifesciences.org/articles/46205 Raphael Eisenhofer and Alan Cooper. 2019. Fossils: A new home for microbes. eLife https://elifesciences.org/articles/48493 An opposing open access paper is: Schweitzer, M.H., Schroeter, E.R., Cleland, T.P. and Zheng, W., 2019. Paleoproteomics of Mesozoic dinosaurs and other Mesozoic fossils. Proteomics, p.1800251. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/pmic.201800251 Yours, Paul H. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxytropidoceras Posted July 6, 2019 Author Share Posted July 6, 2019 A related paper is: Giuffrida, M.G., Mazzoli, R. and Pessione, E., 2018. Back to the past: deciphering cultural heritage secrets by protein identification. Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 102(13), pp.5445-5455. PDF file - https://iris.unito.it/retrieve/handle/2318/1670455/421104/1-BACK TO THE PAST I. IRIS-Aperto.pdf and https://iris.unito.it/retrieve/handle/2318/1670455/421104/ Abstract and link - https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1670455#.XSEVQy2ZPYo Yours, Paul H. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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