The DOI matches its Crossref record; 2 of the 2 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Revival and identification of bacterial spores in 25- to 40-million-year-old Dominican amber
Abstract
A bacterial spore was revived, cultured, and identified from the abdominal contents of extinct bees preserved for 25 to 40 million years in buried Dominican amber. Rigorous surface decontamination of the amber and aseptic procedures were used during the recovery of the bacterium. Several lines of evidence indicated that the isolated bacterium was of ancient origin and not an extant contaminant. The characteristic enzymatic, biochemical, and 16S ribosomal DNA profiles indicated that the ancient bacterium is most closely related to extant Bacillus sphaericus.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Instability and decay of the primary structure of DNA
Lindahl, T. (1993) · Nature · doi:10.1038/362709a0 · Cited by 5,679
Desiccation tolerance of prokaryotes
Potts, M. (1994) · Microbiological Reviews · doi:10.1128/mr.58.4.755-805.1994 · Cited by 1,382
Cited by
Spores of Bacillus subtilis: their resistance to and killing by radiation, heat and chemicals
Setlow, P. (2006) · Journal of Applied Microbiology · doi:10.1111/j.1365-2672.2005.02736.x · Cited by 1,540
Genetic analyses from ancient DNA
Pääbo, S., Poinar, H., Serre, D., Jaenicke-Després, V., Hebler, J., Rohland, N., Kuch, M., Krause, J., Vigilant, L., & Hofreiter, M. (2004) · Annual Review of Genetics · doi:10.1146/annurev.genet.37.110801.143214 · Cited by 1,333
Contamination in Low Microbial Biomass Microbiome Studies: Issues and Recommendations
Eisenhofer, R., Minich, J. J., Marotz, C., Cooper, A., Knight, R., & Weyrich, L. S. (2019) · Trends in Microbiology · doi:10.1016/j.tim.2018.11.003 · Cited by 1,146
Willerslev, E., & Cooper, A. (2005) · Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rspb.2004.2813 · Cited by 712
Aging, Rejuvenation, and Epigenetic Reprogramming: Resetting the Aging Clock
Rando, T. A., & Chang, H. Y. (2012) · Cell · doi:10.1016/j.cell.2012.01.003 · Cited by 520
Metadata
- Authors
- Cano, R., & Borucki, M.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1995-05-19
- Volume
- 268
- Issue
- 5213
- Pages
- 1060-1064
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W1998381553
- Cited by
- 641
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 19.24
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Revival and identification of bacterial spores in 25- to 40-million-year-old Dominican amber. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1126/science.7538699
- The paper
- Cano, R., & Borucki, M. (1995). Revival and identification of bacterial spores in 25- to 40-million-year-old Dominican amber. Science. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.7538699
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
