• Ancient DNA suggests modern wolves trace their origin to a Late Pleistocene expansion from Beringia 

      Loog, Liisa; Thalmann, Olaf; Sinding, Mikkel Holger Strander; Schuenemann, Verena J.; Perri, Angela; Germonpré, Mietje; Bocherens, Herve; Witt, Kelsey E.; Samaniego Castruita, José Alfredo; Velasco, Marcela Sandoval; Lundstrøm, Inge K.C.; Wales, Nathan; Sonet, Gontran; Frantz, Laurent; Schroeder, Hannes; Budd, Jane; Jimenez, Elodie-Laure; Fedorov, Sergey; Gasparyan, Boris; Kandel, Andrew W.; Lázničková-Galetová, Martina; Napierala, Hannes; Uerpmann, Hans-Peter; Nikolskiy, Pavel A.; Pavlova, Elena Y.; Pitulko, Vladimir V.; Herzig, Karl-Heinz; Malhi, Ripan S.; Willerslev, Eske; Hansen, Anders J.; Dobney, Keith; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Krause, Johannes; Larson, Greger; Eriksson, Anders; Manica, Andrea (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Grey wolves (Canis lupus) are one of the few large terrestrial carnivores that have maintained a wide geographical distribution across the Northern Hemisphere throughout the Pleistocene and Holocene. Recent genetic studies ...
    • Whole-genome sequencing of African dogs provides insights into adaptations against tropical parasites 

      Liu, Yan-Hu; Wang, Lu; Xu, Tao; Guo, Xiaomin; Li, Yang; Yin, Ting-Ting; Yang, He-Chuan; Hu, Yang; Adeola, Adeniyi C.; Sanke, Oscar J.; Otecko, Newton O.; Wang, Meng; Ma, Yaping; Charles, Olaogun S.; Sinding, Mikkel Holger Strander; Gopalakrishnan, Shyam; Samaniego, José Alfredo; Hansen, Anders J.; Fernandes, Carlos; Gaubert, Philippe; Budd, Jane; Dawuda, Philip M.; Rueness, Eli Knispel; Jiang, Lubin; Zhai, Weiwei; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Peng, Min-Sheng; Qi, Xiaopeng; Wang, Guo-Dong; Zhang, Ya-ping (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Natural selection in domestic dogs is of great interest in evolutionary biology since dogs have migrated to every inhabited continent of the world alongside humans, and adapted to diverse environments. Here, we explored ...