• Evolutionary History, Genomic Adaptation to Toxic Diet, and Extinction of the Carolina Parakeet 

      Gelabert, Pere; Sandoval-Velasco, Marcela; Serres, Aitor; de Manuel, Marc; Renom, Pere; Margaryan, Ashot; Stiller, Josefin; De-Dios, Toni; Fang, Qi; Feng, Shaohong; Mañosa, Santi; Pacheco, George; Ferrando-Bernal, Manuel; Shi, Guolin; Hao, Fei; Chen, Xianqing; Petersen, Bent; Olsen, Remi-André; Navarro, Arcadi; Deng, Yuan; Dalén, Love; Marques-Bonet, Tomas; Zhang, Guojie; Antunes, Agostinho; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Lalueza-Fox, Carles (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      As the only endemic neotropical parrot to have recently lived in the northern hemisphere, the Carolina parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis) was an iconic North American bird. The last surviving specimen died in the Cincinnati ...
    • 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 ...