• Ancient and historical DNA in conservation policy 

      Jensen, Evelyn L.; Díez-del-Molino, David; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Bertola, Laura D.; Borges, Filipa; Cubric-Curik, Vlatka; de Navascués, Miguel; Frandsen, Peter; Heuertz, Myriam; Hvilsom, Christina; Jiménez-Mena, Belén; Miettinen, Antti; Moest, Markus; Pečnerová, Patrícia; Barnes, Ian; Vernesi, Cristiano (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Although genetic diversity has been recognized as a key component of biodiversity since the first Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in 1993, it has rarely been included in conservation policies and regulations. Even ...
    • Genomic insights into the conservation status of the world’s last remaining Sumatran rhinoceros populations 

      von Seth, Johanna; Dussex, Nicolas; Díez-del-Molino, David; van der Valk, Tom; Kutschera, Verena E.; Kierczak, Marcin; Steiner, Cynthia C.; Liu, Shanlin; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Sinding, Mikkel-Holger S.; Prost, Stefan; Guschanski, Katerina; Nathan, Senthilvel K. S. S.; Brace, Selina; Chan, Yvonne L.; Wheat, Christopher W.; Skoglund, Pontus; Ryder, Oliver A.; Goossens, Benoit; Götherström, Anders; Dalén, Love (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Small populations are often exposed to high inbreeding and mutational load that can increase the risk of extinction. The Sumatran rhinoceros was widespread in Southeast Asia, but is now restricted to small and isolated ...
    • Inference of natural selection from ancient DNA 

      Dehasque, Marianne; Ávila-Arcos, María C; Díez-del-Molino, David; Fumagalli, Matteo; Guschanski, Katerina; Lorenzen, Eline D.; Malaspinas, Anna-Sapfo; Marques-Bonet, Tomas; Martin, Michael David; Murray, Gemma G.R.; Papadopulos, Alexander; Therkildsen, Nina Overgaard; Wegmann, Daniel; Dalén, Love; Foote, Andrew (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Evolutionary processes, including selection, can be indirectly inferred based on patterns of genomic variation among contemporary populations or species. However, this often requires unrealistic assumptions of ancestral ...
    • Pre-extinction demographic stability and genomic signatures of adaptation in the woolly rhinoceros 

      Lord, Edana; Dussex, Nicolas; Kierczak, Marcin; Díez-del-Molino, David; Ryder, Oliver A.; Stanton, David W. G.; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Sánchez-Barreiro, Fatima; Zhang, Guojie; Sinding, Mikkel-Holger S.; Lorenzen, Eline D.; Willerslev, Eske; Protopov, Albert; Shidlovskiy, Fedor K.; Fedorov, Sergey; Bocherens, Hervé; Nathan, Senthilvel K.S.S.; Goossens, Benoit; Johannes, van der Plicht; Chan, Yvonne L.; Prost, Stefan; Potapova, Olga R; Kirillova, Irina V.; Lister, Adrian M.; Heintzman, Peter D.; Kapp, Joshua D.; Shapiro, Beth; Vartanyan, Sergey; Götherström, Anders; Dalén, Love (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Ancient DNA has significantly improved our understanding of the evolution and population history of extinct megafauna. However, few studies have used complete ancient genomes to examine species responses to climate change ...