• Population genomics of grey wolves and wolf-like canids in North America 

      Sinding, Mikkel Holger Strander; Gopalakrishnan, Shyam; Vieira, Filipe G.; Samaniego, Jose A; Raundrup, Katrine; Heide Jørgensen, Mads Peter; Meldgaard, Morten; Petersen, Bent; Sicheritz-Ponten, Thomas; Mikkelsen, Johan Brus; Marquard-Petersen, Ulf; Dietz, Rune; Sonne, Christian; Dalén, Love; Bachmann, Lutz; Wiig, Øystein; Hansen, Anders J.; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      North America is currently home to a number of grey wolf (Canis lupus) and wolf-like canid populations, including the coyote (Canis latrans) and the taxonomically controversial red, Eastern timber and Great Lakes wolves. ...
    • Protective role of the vulture facial skin and gut microbiomes aid adaptation to scavenging 

      Zepeda Mendoza, M. Lisandra; Roggenbuck, Michael; Manzano Vargas, Karla; Hestbjerg Hansen, Lars; Brunak, Søren; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Sicheritz-Ponten, Thomas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Background Vultures have adapted the remarkable ability to feed on carcasses that may contain microorganisms that would be pathogenic to most other animals. The holobiont concept suggests that the genetic basis of such ...
    • The wolf reference genome sequence (Canis lupus lupus) and its implications for Canis spp. population genomics 

      Gopalakrishnan, Shyam; Samaniego Castruita, José Alfredo; Sinding, Mikkel Holger Strander; Kuderna, Lukas FK; Räikkönen, Jannikke; Petersen, Bent; Sicheritz-Ponten, Thomas; Larson, Greger; Orlando, Ludovic; Marques-Bonet, Tomas; Hansen, Anders J.; Dalén, Love; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Background: An increasing number of studies are addressing the evolutionary genomics of dog domestication, principally through resequencing dog, wolf and related canid genomes. There is, however, only one de novo assembled ...