• An expanded mammal mitogenome dataset from Southeast Asia 

      Salleh, Faezah Mohd; Ramos-Madrigal, Jazmín; Peñaloza, Fernando; Liu, Shanlin; Sinding, Mikkel Holger Strander; Patel, Riddhi P.; Martins, Renata; Lenz, Dorina; Fickel, Jörns; Roos, Christian; Shamsir, Mohd Shahir; Azman, Mohammad Shahfiz; Lim, Burton K.; Rossiter, Stephen J.; Wilting, Andreas; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Southeast (SE) Asia is 1 of the most biodiverse regions in the world, and it holds approximately 20% of all mammal species. Despite this, the majority of SE Asia's genetic diversity is still poorly characterized. The growing ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Ancient dolphin genomes reveal rapid repeated adaptation to coastal waters 

      Louis, Marie; Korlević, Petra; Nykänen, Milaja; Archer, Frederick; Berrow, Simon; Brownlow, Andrew; Lorenzen, Eline D.; O’Brien, Joanne; Post, Klaas; Racimo, Fernando; Rogan, Emer; Rosel, Patricia E.; Sinding, Mikkel Holger Strander; van der Es, Henry; Wales, Nathan; Fontaine, Michael C.; Gaggiotti, Oscar E.; Foote, Andrew (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Parallel evolution provides strong evidence of adaptation by natural selection due to local environmental variation. Yet, the chronology, and mode of the process of parallel evolution remains debated. Here, we harness the ...
    • Comparative performance of the BGISEQ-500 vs Illumina HiSeq2500 sequencing platforms for palaeogenomic sequencing 

      Mak, Sarah S.T.; Gopalakrishnan, Shyam; Carøe, Christian; Geng, Chunyu; Liu, Shanlin; Sinding, Mikkel Holger Strander; Kuderna, Lukas FK; Zhang, Wenwei; Fu, Shujin; Vieira, Filipe G.; Germonpre, Mietje; Bocherens, Hervé; Fedorov, Sergey; Petersen, Bent; Sicheritz-Pontén, Thomas; Marques-Bonet, Tomas; Zhang, Guojie; Jiang, Hui; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Ancient DNA research has been revolutionized following development of next-generation sequencing platforms. Although a number of such platforms have been applied to ancient DNA samples, the Illumina series are the dominant ...
    • Conservation implications of elucidating the Korean wolf taxonomic ambiguity through whole-genome sequencing 

      Hernández-Alonso, Germán; Ramos-Madrigal, Jazmín; Sun, Xin; Scharff-Olsen, Camilla Hjorth; Sinding, Mikkel Holger Strander; Martins, Nuno F.; Ciucani, Marta Maria; Mak, Sarah S. T.; Lanigan, Liam Thomas; Clausen, Cecilie G.; Bhak, Jong; Jeon, Sungwon; Kim, Changjae; Eo, Kyung Yeon; Cho, Seong-Ho; Boldgiv, Bazartseren; Gantulga, Gankhuyag; Unudbayasgalan, Zunduibaatar; Kosintsev, Pavel A.; Stenøien, Hans Kristen; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Gopalakrishnan, Shyam (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The taxonomic status of the now likely extirpated Korean Peninsula wolf has been extensively debated, with some arguing it represents an independent wolf lineage, Canis coreanus. To investigate the Korean wolf's genetic ...
    • Current state of knowledge on biological effects from contaminants on arctic wildlife and fish 

      Dietz, Rune; Letcher, Robert J.; Desforges, Jean-Pierre; Eulaers, Igor; Sonne, Christian; Wilson, Simon; Andersen-Ranberg, Emilie; Basu, Niladri; Barst, Benjamin D.; Bustnes, Jan Ove; Bytingsvik, Jenny; Ciesielski, Tomasz Maciej; Drevnick, Paul E.; Gabrielsen, Geir W.; Haarr, Ane; Hylland, Ketil; Jenssen, Bjørn Munro; Levin, Milton; McKinney, Melissa A.; Nørregaard, Rasmus Dyrmose; Pedersen, Kathrine E.; Provencher, Jennifer; Styrishave, Bjarne; Tartu, Sabrina; Aars, Jon; Ackerman, Joshua T.; Rosing-Asvid, Aqqalu; Barrett, Rob; Bignert, Anders; Born, Erik W; Branigan, Marsha; Braune, Birgit; Bryan, Colleen E; Dam, Maria; Eagles-Smith, Collin A.; Evans, Marlene; Evans, Thomas J.; Fisk, Aaron T.; Gamberg, Mary; Gustavson, Kim; Hartman, C. Alex; Helander, Björn; Herzog, Mark P.; Hoekstra, Paul F.; Houde, Magali; Hoydal, Katrin; Jackson, Allyson K.; Kucklick, John; Lie, Elisabeth; Loseto, Lisa; Mallory, Mark L.; Miljeteig, Cecilie; Mosbech, Anders; Muir, Derek C.G.; Nielsen, Sanna Túni; Peacock, Elizabeth; Pedro, Sara; Peterson, Sarah H.; Polder, Anuschka; Rigét, Frank F.; Roach, Pat; Saunes, Halvor; Sinding, Mikkel Holger Strander; Skåre, Janneche Utne; Søndergaard, Jens; Stenson, Garry; Stern, Gary; Treu, Gabriele; Schuur, Stacy S.; Víkingsson, Gísli Arnór (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Since the last Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) effort to review biological effects of the exposure to organohalogen compounds (OHCs) in Arctic biota, there has been a considerable number of new Arctic ...
    • The extinct Sicilian wolf shows a complex history of isolation and admixture with ancient dogs 

      Ciucani, Marta Maria; Ramos-Madrigal, Jazmín; Hernández-Alonso, Germán; Carmagnini, Alberto; Aninta, Sabhrina Gita; Sun, Xin; Scharff-Olsen, Camilla Hjorth; Lanigan, Liam Thomas; Fracasso, Ilaria; Clausen, Cecilie G.; Aspi, Jouni; Kojola, Ilpo; Baltrūnaitė, Laima; Balčiauskas, Linas; Moore, Jane; Åkesson, Mikael; Saarma, Urmas; Hindrikson, Maris; Hulva, Pavel; Bolfíková, Barbora Černá; Nowak, Carsten; Godinho, Raquel; Smith, Steve; Paule, Ladislav; Nowak, Sabina; Mysłajek, Robert W.; Lo Brutto, Sabrina; Ciucci, Paolo; Boitani, Luigi; Vernesi, Cristiano; Stenøien, Hans Kristen; Smith, Oliver; Frantz, Laurent; Rossi, Lorenzo; Angelici, Francesco Maria; Cilli, Elisabetta; Sinding, Mikkel Holger Strander; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Gopalakrishnan, Shyam (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The Sicilian wolf remained isolated in Sicily from the end of the Pleistocene until its extermination in the 1930s–1960s. Given its long-term isolation on the island and distinctive morphology, the genetic origin of the ...
    • Genomes of Pleistocene Siberian Wolves Uncover Multiple Extinct Wolf Lineages 

      Ramos-Madrigal, Jazmín; Sinding, Mikkel Holger Strander; Carøe, Christian; Mak, Sarah Siu Tze; Niemann, Jonas; Samaniego Castruita, José A.; Fedorov, Sergey; Kandyba, Alexander; Germonpré, Mietje; Bocherens, Hervé; Feuerborn, Tatiana R.; Pitulko, Vladimir V.; Pavlova, Elena Y.; Nikolskiy, Pavel A.; Kasparov, Aleksei K.; Ivanova, Varvara V.; Larson, Greger; Frantz, Laurent A.F.; Willerslev, Eske; Meldgaard, Morten; Petersen, Bent; Sicheritz-Pontén, Thomas; Bachmann, Lutz; Wiig, Øystein; Hansen, Anders J.; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Gopalakrishnan, Shyam (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Extant Canis lupus genetic diversity can be grouped into three phylogenetically distinct clades: Eurasian and American wolves and domestic dogs.1 Genetic studies have suggested these groups trace their origins to a wolf ...
    • Genomic evidence refutes the hypothesis that the Bornean banteng is a distinct species 

      Sun, Xin; Ciucani, Marta Maria; Rasmussen, Jacob Agerbo; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Sinding, Mikkel Holger Strander (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The banteng (Bos javanicus) is an endangered species within the wild Asian Bos complex, that has traditionally been subdivided into three geographically isolated subspecies based on (i) mainland Southeast Asia (B. j. ...
    • Genomic insights into the secondary aquatic transition of penguins 

      Cole, Theresa L.; Zhou, Chengran; Fang, Miaoquan; Pan, Hailin; Ksepka, Daniel T.; Fiddaman, Steven R.; Emerling, Christopher A.; Thomas, Daniel B.; Bi, Xupeng; Fang, Qi; Ellegaard, Martin Rene; Feng, Shaohong; Smith, Adrian L.; Heath, Tracy A.; Tennyson, Alan J. D.; Borboroglu, Pablo García; Wood, Jamie R.; Hadden, Peter W.; Grosser, Stefanie; Bost, Charles-André; Cherel, Yves; Mattern, Thomas; Hart, Tom; Sinding, Mikkel Holger Strander; Shepherd, Lara D.; Phillips, Richard A.; Quillfeldt, Petra; Masello, Juan F.; Bouzat, Juan L.; Ryan, Peter G.; Thompson, David R.; Ellenberg, Ursula; Dann, Peter; Miller, Gary; Dee Boersma, Boersma; Zhao, Ruoping; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Yang, Huanming; Zhang, De-Xing; Zhang, Guojie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    • 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, ...
    • High-coverage genomes to elucidate the evolution of penguins 

      Pan, Hailin; Cole, Theresa L.; Bi, Xupeng; Fang, Miaoquan; Zhou, Chengran; Yang, Zhengtao; Ksepka, Daniel T.; Hart, Tom; Bouzat, Juan L.; Argilla, Lisa S.; Bertelsen, Mads F.; Boersma, P. Dee; Bost, Charles-André; Cherel, Yves; Dann, Peter; Fiddaman, Steven R.; Howard, Pauline; Labuschagne, Kim; Mattern, Thomas; Miller, Gary; Parker, Patricia; Phillips, Richard A.; Quillfeldt, Petra; Ryan, Peter G.; Taylor, Helen; Thompson, David R.; Young, Melanie J.; Ellegaard, Martin; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Sinding, Mikkel Holger Strander; Pacheco, George; Shepherd, Lara D.; Tennyson, Alan J.D.; Grosser, Stefanie; Kay, Emily; Nupen, Lisa J.; Ellenberg, Ursula; Houston, David M.; Reeve, Andrew Hart; Johnson, Kathryn; Masello, Juan F.; Stracke, Thomas; McKinlay, Bruce; Borboroglu, Pablo García; Zhang, De-Xing; Zhang, Guojie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Background Penguins (Sphenisciformes) are a remarkable order of flightless wing-propelled diving seabirds distributed widely across the southern hemisphere. They share a volant common ancestor with Procellariiformes ...
    • MobiSeq: De novo SNP discovery in model and non-model species through sequencing the flanking region of transposable elements 

      Rey-Iglesia, Alba; Gopalakrishan, Shyam; Carøe, Christian; Alquezar-Planas, David E.; Ahlmann Nielsen, Anne; Röder, Timo; Bruhn Pedersen, Lene; Næsborg-Nielsen, Christina; Sinding, Mikkel Holger Strander; Fredensborg Rath, Martin; Li, Zhipeng; Petersen, Bent; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Bunce, Michael; Mourier, Tobias; Hansen, Anders Johannes (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      In recent years, the availability of reduced representation library (RRL) methods has catalysed an expansion of genome‐scale studies to characterize both model and non‐model organisms. Most of these methods rely on the use ...
    • 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. ...
    • Specialized sledge dogs accompanied Inuit dispersal across the North American Arctic 

      Ameen, Carly; Feuerborn, Tatiana R.; Brown, Sarah K.; Linderholm, Anna; Hulme-Beaman, Ardern; Lebrasseur, Ophelie; Sinding, Mikkel Holger Strander; Lounsberry, Zachary T.; Lin, Audrey T.; Appelt, Martin; Bachmann, Lutz; Betts, Matthew; Britton, Kate; Darwent, John; Dietz, Rune; Fredholm, Merethe; Gopalakrishnan, Shyam; Goruinova, Olga I.; Grønnow, Bjarne; Haile, James; Hallsson, Jón Hallsteinn; Harrison, Ramona; Heide-Jørgensen, Mads-Peter; Knecht, Rick; Losey, Robert J.; Masson-MacLean, Edouard; McGovern, Thomas H.; McMagnus-Fry, Ellen; Meldgaard, Morten; Midtdal, Åslaug; Moss, Madonna L.; Nikitin, Iurii G.; Nomokonova, Tatiana; Palsdottir, Albina Hulda; Perri, Angela; Popov, Aleksandr N.; Rankin, Lisa; Reuther, Joshua D.; Sablin, Mikhail V.; Schmidt, Anne Lisbeth; Shirar, Scott; Smiarowski, Konrad; Sonne, Christian; Stiner, Mary C.; Vasyukov, Mitya; West, Catherine F.; Ween, Gro Birgit; Wennerberg, Sanne Eline; Wiig, Øystein; Woollett, James; Dalén, Love; Hansen, Anders J.; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Sacks, Benjamin N; Frantz, Laurent A.F.; Larson, Greger; Dobney, Keith; Darwent, Christyann M.; Evin, Allowen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Domestic dogs have been central to life in the North American Arctic for millennia. The ancestors of the Inuit were the first to introduce the widespread usage of dog sledge transportation technology to the Americas, but ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...