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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2026

Ancient DNA reveals early use of melons in China's Song dynasty.

Nathanael Walker-Hale, Yunfei Zheng, Marion Verdenaud, Lara Pereira, Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar, Michaela Preick, Abdelhafid Bendahmane, Michael V Westbury, Michael Hofreiter, Hanno Schaefer and 3 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Ancient DNA reveals early use of melons in China's Song dynasty.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Nathanael Walker-HaleDepartment of Biosciences, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-1105-5069
Yunfei ZhengZhejiang Institute of Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province 310023, China.
Marion VerdenaudInstitute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment, Université d'Evry, Gif-sur-Yvette 91190, France.ORCID 0000-0002-4071-0782
Lara PereiraEcology and Evolutionary Biology, School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-5184-8587
Oscar Alejandro Pérez-EscobarRoyal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London TW9 3AE, United Kingdom.
Michaela PreickFaculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam 14476, Germany.
Abdelhafid BendahmaneInstitute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment, Université d'Evry, Gif-sur-Yvette 91190, France.ORCID 0000-0003-3246-868X
Michael V WestburySection for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, København K 1350, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0003-0478-3930
Michael HofreiterFaculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam 14476, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0441-4705
Hanno SchaeferDepartment Life Science Systems, Technical University of Munich, Freising 85354, Germany.
Xinyi LiuDepartment of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130.ORCID 0000-0002-4767-4737
Guillaume ChomickiDepartment of Biosciences, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-4547-6195
Susanne S RennerDepartment of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130.ORCID 0000-0003-3704-0703

Funding

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) EP/X026868/1UKRI | Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) NE/S014470/3
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Cucumis meloCucurbitaceaeDNA, AncientChinaDomesticationFruitSeedsDNA, Ancientancient DNAarchaeogenomicsCucumis melomelon domesticationSong dynasty

Identifiers

PMID42696533
PMCPMC13552654

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