• 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 ...
    • Archival influenza virus genomes from Europe reveal genomic variability during the 1918 pandemic 

      Patrono, Livia V.; Vrancken, Bram; Budt, Matthias; Düx, Ariane; Lequime, Sebastian; Boral, Sengül; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Gogarten, Jan F.; Hoffmann, Luisa; Horst, David; Merkel, Kevin; Morens, David; Prepoint, Baptiste; Schlotterbeck, Jasmin; Schuenemann, Verena J.; Suchard, Marc A.; Taubenberger, Jeffery K.; Tenkhoff, Luisa; Urban, Christian; Widulin, Navena; Winter, Eduard; Worobey, Michael; Schnalke, Thomas; Wolff, Thorsten; Lemey, Philippe; Calvignac-Spencer, Sébastien (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The 1918 influenza pandemic was the deadliest respiratory pandemic of the 20th century and determined the genomic make-up of subsequent human influenza A viruses (IAV). Here, we analyze both the first 1918 IAV genomes from ...
    • Grey wolf genomic history reveals a dual ancestry of dogs 

      Bergström, Anders; Stanton, David W. G.; Taron, Ulrike H.; Frantz, Laurent; Sinding, Mikkel Holger Strander; Ersmark, Erik; Pfrengle, Saskia; Cassatt-Johnstone, Molly; Lebrasseur, Ophélie; Girdland-Flink, Linus; Fernandes, Daniel M.; Ollivier, Morgane; Speidel, Leo; Gopalakrishnan, Shyam; Westbury, Michael V.; Ramos-Madrigal, Jazmin; Feuerborn, Tatiana R.; Reiter, Ella; Gretzinger, Joscha; Münzel, Susanne C.; Swali, Pooja; Conard, Nicholas J.; Carøe, Christian; Haile, James; Linderholm, Anna; Androsov, Semyon; Barnes, Ian; Baumann, Chris; Benecke, Norbert; Bocherens, Hervé; Brace, Selina; Carden, Ruth F.; Drucker, Dorothée G.; Fedorov, Sergey; Gasparik, Mihály; Germonpré, Mietje; Grigoriev, Semyon; Groves, Pam; Hertwig, Stefan T.; Ivanova, Varvara V.; Janssens, Luc; Jennings, Richard P.; Kasparov, Aleksei K.; Kirillova, Irina V.; Kurmaniyazov, Islam; Kuzmin, Yaroslav V.; Kosintsev, Pavel A.; Lázničková-Galetová, Martina; Leduc, Charlotte; Nikolskiy, Pavel; Nussbaumer, Marc; O’Drisceoil, Cóilín; Orlando, Ludovic; Outram, Alan; Pavlova, Elena Y.; Perri, Angela R.; Pilot, Małgorzata; Pitulko, Vladimir V.; Plotnikov, Valerii V.; Protopopov, Albert V.; Rehazek, André; Sablin, Mikhail; Seguin-Orlando, Andaine; Storå, Jan; Verjux, Christian; Zaibert, Victor F.; Zazula, Grant; Crombé, Philippe; Hansen, Anders J.; Willerslev, Eske; Leonard, Jennifer A.; Götherström, Anders; Pinhasi, Ron; Schuenemann, Verena J.; Hofreiter, Michael; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Shapiro, Beth; Larson, Greger; Krause, Johannes; Dalén, Love; Skoglund, Pontus (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The grey wolf (Canis lupus) was the first species to give rise to a domestic population, and they remained widespread throughout the last Ice Age when many other large mammal species went extinct. Little is known, however, ...