• 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 ...
    • Assessing the genetic composition of cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) before sweeping anthropogenic impact 

      Rasmussen, Linett; Fontsere, Claudia; Soto-Calderón, Iván D.; Guillen, Rosamira; Savage, Anne; Hansen, Anders Johannes; Hvilsom, Christina; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      During the last century, the critically endangered cotton-top tamarin (Saguinus oedipus) has been threatened by multiple anthropogenic factors that drastically affected their habitat and population size. As the genetic ...
    • The genetic impact of an Ebola outbreak on a wild gorilla population 

      Fontsere, Claudia; Frandsen, Peter; Hernandez-Rodriguez, Jessica; Niemann, Jonas; Scharff-Olsen, Camilla Hjorth; Vallet, Dominique; Le Gouar, Pascaline; Ménard, Nelly; Navarro, Arcadi; Siegismund, Hans Redlef; Hvilsom, Christina; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Kuhlwilm, Martin; Hughes, David; Marques-Bonet, Tomas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Background Numerous Ebola virus outbreaks have occurred in Equatorial Africa over the past decades. Besides human fatalities, gorillas and chimpanzees have also succumbed to the fatal virus. The 2004 outbreak at the ...