Ancient DNA analysis

L Orlando, R Allaby, P Skoglund… - Nature reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Although the first ancient DNA molecules were extracted more than three decades ago, the
first ancient nuclear genomes could only be characterized after high-throughput sequencing …

Predicting the fate of eDNA in the environment and implications for studying biodiversity

JB Harrison, JM Sunday… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Environmental DNA (eDNA) applications are transforming the standard of characterizing
aquatic biodiversity via the presence, location and abundance of DNA collected from …

[HTML][HTML] The origins and spread of domestic horses from the Western Eurasian steppes

P Librado, N Khan, A Fages, MA Kusliy, T Suchan… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Domestication of horses fundamentally transformed long-range mobility and warfare.
However, modern domesticated breeds do not descend from the earliest domestic horse …

Million-year-old DNA sheds light on the genomic history of mammoths

T Van der Valk, P Pečnerová, D Díez-del-Molino… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Temporal genomic data hold great potential for studying evolutionary processes such as
speciation. However, sampling across speciation events would, in many cases, require …

[HTML][HTML] Late Quaternary dynamics of Arctic biota from ancient environmental genomics

Y Wang, MW Pedersen, IG Alsos, B De Sanctis… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
During the last glacial–interglacial cycle, Arctic biotas experienced substantial climatic
changes, yet the nature, extent and rate of their responses are not fully understood …

[HTML][HTML] Grey wolf genomic history reveals a dual ancestry of dogs

A Bergström, DWG Stanton, UH Taron, L Frantz… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The grey wolf (Canis lupus) was the first species to give rise to a domestic population, and
they remained widespread throughout the last Ice Age when many other large mammal …

Paleoproteomics

C Warinner, K Korzow Richter, MJ Collins - Chemical reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Paleoproteomics, the study of ancient proteins, is a rapidly growing field at the intersection of
molecular biology, paleontology, archaeology, paleoecology, and history. Paleoproteomics …

The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe

I Olalde, S Brace, ME Allentoft, I Armit, K Kristiansen… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
From around 2750 to 2500 bc, Bell Beaker pottery became widespread across western and
central Europe, before it disappeared between 2200 and 1800 bc. The forces that propelled …

The population history of northeastern Siberia since the Pleistocene

M Sikora, VV Pitulko, VC Sousa, ME Allentoft, L Vinner… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Northeastern Siberia has been inhabited by humans for more than 40,000 years but its deep
population history remains poorly understood. Here we investigate the late Pleistocene …

The first horse herders and the impact of early Bronze Age steppe expansions into Asia

P de Barros Damgaard, R Martiniano, J Kamm… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION According to the commonly accepted “steppe hypothesis,” the initial
spread of Indo-European (IE) languages into both Europe and Asia took place with …