Browsing NTNU Open by Author "Martin, Michael David"

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    • Adaptation to the High-Arctic island environment despite long-term reduced genetic variation in Svalbard reindeer 

      Dussex, Nicolas; Tørresen, Ole Kristian; van der Valk, Tom; Le Moullec, Mathilde; Veiberg, Vebjørn; Tooming-Klunderud, Ave; Skage, Morten; Garmann-Aarhus, Benedicte; Wood, Jonathan; Rasmussen, Jacob Agerbo; Pedersen, Åshild Ønvik; Martin, Sarah Louise; Røed, Knut; Jakobsen, Kjetill Sigurd; Dalén, Love; Hansen, Brage Bremset; Martin, Michael David (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Typically much smaller in number than their mainland counterparts, island populations are ideal systems to investigate genetic threats to small populations. The Svalbard reindeer (Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus) is an ...

    • Adaptation to the High-Arctic island environment despite long-term reduced genetic variation in Svalbard reindeer 

      Dussex, Nicolas; Tørresen, Ole Kristian; van der Valk, Tom; Le Moullec, Mathilde; Veiberg, Vebjørn; Tooming-Klunderud, Ave; Skage, Morten; Garmann-Aarhus, Benedicte; Wood, Jonathan; Rasmussen, Jacob Agerbo; Pedersen, Åshild Ønvik; Martin, Sarah Louise; Røed, Knut; Jakobsen, Kjetill Sigurd; Dalén, Love; Hansen, Brage Bremset; Martin, Michael David (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Typically much smaller in number than their mainland counterparts, island populations are ideal systems to investigate genetic threats to small populations. The Svalbard reindeer (Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus) is an ...

    • An ‛Aukward’ tale: a genetic approach to discover the whereabouts of the last Great Auks 

      Thomas, Jessica E; Carvalho, Gary R.; Haile, James; Martin, Michael David; Castruita, Jose A. Samaniego; Niemann, Jonas; Sinding, Mikkel Holger Strander; Sandoval-Velasco, Marcela; Rawlence, Nicolas J.; Fuller, Errol; Fjeldså, Jon; Hofreiter, Michael; Stewart, John R; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Knapp, Michael (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      One hundred and seventy-three years ago, the last two Great Auks, Pinguinus impennis, ever reliably seen were killed. Their internal organs can be found in the collections of the Natural History Museum of Denmark, but the ...

    • Applied Uses of Ancient DNA 

      Rawlence, Nicolas J.; Knapp, Michael; Martin, Michael David; Wales, Nathan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

    • Assessing spatial patterns of phylogenetic diversity of Mexican mammals for biodiversity conservation 

      Aguilar Tomasini, Maria Alejandra; Martin, Michael David; Speed, James David Mervyn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Phylogenetic diversity is a biodiversity measurement that describes the amount of evolutionary history contained by the taxonomic units in a region. It has proven to be an important metric for determining conservation ...

    • Contrasting genomic consequences of anthropogenic reintroduction and natural recolonization in high-arctic wild reindeer 

      Burnett, Hamish Andrew; Bieker, Vanessa Carina; Le Moullec, Mathilde; Peeters, Bart; Rosvold, Jørgen; Pedersen, Åshild Ønvik; Dalén, Love; Loe, Leif Egil; Jensen, Henrik; Hansen, Brage Bremset; Martin, Michael David (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Anthropogenic reintroduction can supplement natural recolonization in reestablishing a species' distribution and abundance. However, both reintroductions and recolonizations can give rise to founder effects that reduce ...

    • Corroborating written history with ancient DNA: The case of the Well-man described in an Old Norse saga 

      Ellegaard, Martin Rene; Ebenesersdóttir, S. Sunna; Moore, Kristjan H.S.; Petersén, Anna; Vågene, Åshild J.; Bieker, Vanessa Carina; Denham, Sean Dexter; Cavalleri, Gianpiero L.; Gilbert, Edmund; Werge, Thomas; Hansen, Thomas F; Kockum, Ingrid; Alfredsson, Lars; Olsson, Tomas; Hovig, Eivind; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Stefánsson, Kári; Stenøien, Hans Kristen; Helgason, Agnar; Martin, Michael David (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
      The potential of ancient DNA analyses to provide independent sources of information about events in the historical record remains to be demonstrated. Here we apply palaeogenomic analysis to human remains excavated from a ...

    • Demographic reconstruction from ancient DNA supports rapid extinction of the Great Auk 

      Thomas, Jessica E; Carvalho, Gary R.; James, Haile; Rawlence, Nicolas J.; Martin, Michael David; Ho, Simon Y.W.; Sigfússon, Arnór; Jósefsson, Vigfús A.; Frederiksen, Morten; Linnebjerg, Jannie F.; Castruita, Jose A. Samaniego; Niemann, Jonas; Sinding, Mikkel-Holger S.; Sandoval-Velasco, Marcela; Soares, André E.R.; Lacy, Robert; Barilaro, Christina; Best, Julia; Brandis, Dirk; Cavallo, Chiara; Elorza, Mikelo; Garrett, Kimball L; Groot, Maaike; Johansson, Friederike; Lifjeld, Jan Terje; Nilson, Göran; Serjeanston, Dale; Sweet, Paul; Fuller, Errol; Hufthammer, Anne Karin; Meldgaard, Morten; Fjeldså, Jon; Shapiro, Beth; Hofreiter, Michael; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Knapp, Michael (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      The great auk was once abundant and distributed across the North Atlantic. It is now extinct, having been heavily exploited for its eggs, meat, and feathers. We investigated the impact of human hunting on its demise by ...

    • Differential patterns of floristic phylogenetic diversity across a post-glacial landscape 

      Mienna, Ida M.; Speed, James David Mervyn; Bendiksby, Mika; Thornhill, Andrew H.; Mishler, Brent D; Martin, Michael David (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Aim: In this study, we explored spatial patterns of phylogenetic diversity (PD) and end-emism in the flora of Norway and tested hypothesized post-glacial environmental drivers of PD, including temperature, precipitation, ...

    • Editorial: Herbarium Collection-Based Plant Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics 

      Bakker, Freek T.; Bieker, Vanessa Carina; Martin, Michael David (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Over the past centuries and especially the last decades, herbarium collections world-wide have amassed an estimated 350 million specimens of plants and fungi, deposited in 3,400 herbaria world-wide (Soltis, 2017). Many of ...

    • Extensive genome-wide phylogenetic discordance is due to incomplete lineage sorting and not ongoing introgression in a rapidly radiated bryophyte genus 

      Meleshko, Olena; Martin, Michael David; Korneliussen, Thorfinn Sand; Schröck, Christian; Lamkowski, Paul; Schmutz, Jeremy; Healey, Adam; Piatkowski, Bryan T; Shaw, A. Jonathan; Weston, David J; Flatberg, Kjell Ivar; Szövényi, Péter; Hassel, Kristian; Stenøien, Hans K. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The relative importance of introgression for diversification has long been a highly disputed topic in speciation research and remains an open question despite the great attention it has received over the past decade. Gene ...

    • Genetisk opphav til den norsksvenske ulvestammen (Canis lupus lupus) 

      Stenøien, Hans K.; Sun, Xin; Martin, Michael David; Scharff-Olsen, Camilla Hjorth; Alonso, Germán Hernàndez; Martins, Nuno Filipe Gomes; Lanigan, Liam T; Ciucani, Marta M.; Sinding, Mikkel-Holger S.; Gopalakrishnan, Shyam; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius (NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet naturhistorisk rapport;, Research report, 2021)
      Den genetiske opprinnelsen til den norsk-svenske ulvebestanden har vært debattert helt siden den tilsynelatende ble reetablert på 1980-tallet. Det er stilt spørsmål om bestanden kan være nedstammet fra andre ulver enn de ...

    • Genome-resolved metagenomics suggests a mutualistic relationship between Mycoplasma and salmonid hosts 

      Rasmussen, Jacob A.; Villumsen, Kasper Rømer; Duchêne, David; Puetz, Lara; Delmont, Tom; Sveier, Harald; von Gersdorff Jørgensen, Louise; Præbel, Kim; Martin, Michael David; Bojesen, Anders Miki; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Kristiansen, Karsten; Limborg, Morten T. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Salmonids are important sources of protein for a large proportion of the human population. Mycoplasma species are a major constituent of the gut microbiota of salmonids, often representing the majority of microbiota. Despite ...

    • Genomic adaptations and evolutionary history of the extinct scimitar-toothed cat, Homotherium latidens 

      Barnett, Ross; Westbury, Michael V; Sandoval-Velasco, Marcela; Vieira, Filipe G.; Jeon, Sungwon; Zazula, Grant; Martin, Michael David; Ho, Simon Y.W.; Mather, Niklas; Gopalakrishnan, Shyam; Ramos-Madrigal, Jazmín; de Manuel, Marc; Zepeda-Mendoza, Marie Lisandra; Antunes, Agostinho; Carmona Baez, Aldo; De Cahsan, Binia; Larson, Greger; O'Brien, Stephen J.; Eizirik, Eduardo; Johnson, Warren E.; Koepfli, Klaus-Peter; Wilting, Andreas; Fickel, Jörns; Dalén, Love; Lorenzen, Eline D.; Marques-Bonet, Tomas; Hansen, Anders J.; Zhang, Guojie; Bhak, Jong; Yamaguchi, Nobuyuki; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Homotherium was a genus of large-bodied scimitar-toothed cats, morphologically distinct from any extant felid species, that went extinct at the end of the Pleistocene [1, 2, 3, 4]. They possessed large, saber-form serrated ...

    • The genomic basis of the plant island syndrome in Darwin’s giant daisies 

      Cerca, José; Petersen, Bent; Lazaro-Guevara, José Miguel; Rivera-Colón, Angel G.; Birkeland, Siri; Vizueta, Joel; Li, Siyu; Li, Qionghou; Loureiro, João; Kosawang, Chatchai; Jaramillo Díaz, Patricia; Rivas-Torres, Gonzalo; Fernández-Mazuecos, Mario; Vargas, Pablo; McCauley, Ross; Petersen, Gitte; Santos-Bay, Luisa; Wales, Nathan; Catchen, Julian M.; Machado, Daniel; Nowak, Michael; Suh, Alexander; Sinha, Neelima R.; Rostgaard Nielsen, Lene; Seberg, Ole; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Leebens-Mack, James H.; Rieseberg, Loren H.; Martin, Michael David (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The repeated, rapid and often pronounced patterns of evolutionary divergence observed in insular plants, or the ‘plant island syndrome’, include changes in leaf phenotypes, growth, as well as the acquisition of a perennial ...

    • Genomic context determines the effect of DNA methylation on gene expression in the gut epithelium of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) 

      Katirtzoglou, Aikaterini; Hansen, Søren B.; Sveier, Harald; Martin, Michael David; Brealey, Jaelle C.; Limborg, Morten T. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      The canonical view of DNA methylation, a pivotal epigenetic regulation mechanism in eukaryotes, dictates its role as a suppressor of gene activity, particularly within promoter regions. However, this view is being challenged ...

    • GRUPS-rs, a high-performance ancient DNA genetic relatedness estimation software relying on pedigree simulations 

      Lefeuvre, Maël; Martin, Michael David; Jay, Flora; Marsolier, Marie-Claude; Bon, Céline (Journal article, 2024)
      Background: The study of fine-grain genetic kinship ties (parents, siblings, cousins, etc.) from ancient remains is nowgaining significant interest within the field of paleogenetics, as a means of deciphering the social ...

    • Herbarium collection-based phylogenetics of the ragweeds (Ambrosia, Asteraceae) 

      Martin, Michael David; Quiroz-Claros, Elva; Brush, Grace S.; Zimmer, Elizabeth A. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Ambrosia (Asteraceae) is a taxonomically difficult genus of weedy, wind-pollinated plants with an apparent center of diversity in the Sonoran Desert of North America. Determining Ambrosia’s evolutionary relationships has ...

    • Historic late blight outbreaks caused by a widespread dominant lineage of Phytophthora infestans (Mont.) de Bary 

      Saville, Amanda; Martin, Michael David; Ristaino, Jean B. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)
      Phytophthora infestans (Mont.) de Bary, the causal agent of potato late blight, was responsible for the Irish potato famine of the 1840s. Initial disease outbreaks occurred in the US in 1843, two years prior to European ...

    • A holo-omics analysis shows how sugar kelp can boost gut health in Atlantic salmon 

      Rasmussen, Jacob A.; Bernhard, Annette; Lecaudey, Laurene Alicia; Kale, Varsha; Baldi, Germana; Myrmel, Lene Secher; Hansen, Martin; Brealey, Jaelle C.; Mak, Sarah S.T.; Nielsen, Ida B.; Richardson, Lorna; Madsen, Lise; Kristiansen, Karsten; Gilbert, M. Thomas P.; Martin, Michael David; Finn, Robert D.; Sveier, Harald; Limborg, Morten T. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      The projected growth of Aquaculture requires continuous optimisation of feeding regimes, especially in enhancing disease resilience through immunostimulating feed supplements. Seaweed has been introduced as a promising ...