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An expanded mammal mitogenome dataset from Southeast Asia
(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
(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 ... -
The ancestry and geographical origins of St Helena's liberated Africans
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The island of St Helena played a crucial role in the suppression of the transatlantic slave trade. Strategically located in the middle of the South Atlantic, it served as a staging post for the Royal Navy and reception ... -
Ancestry testing of "Old Tom," a killer whale central to mutualistic interactions with human whalers
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Cooperative hunting between humans and killer whales (Orcinus orca) targeting baleen whales was reported in Eden, New South Wales, Australia, for almost a century. By 1928, whaling operations had ceased, and local killer ... -
Ancient and historical DNA in conservation policy
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Although genetic diversity has been recognized as a key component of biodiversity since the first Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in 1993, it has rarely been included in conservation policies and regulations. Even ... -
Ancient and modern genomes unravel the evolutionary history of the rhinoceros family
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Only five species of the once-diverse Rhinocerotidae remain, making the reconstruction of their evolutionary history a challenge to biologists since Darwin. We sequenced genomes from five rhinoceros species (three extinct ... -
Ancient and modern stickleback genomes reveal the demographic constraints on adaptation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Adaptation is typically studied by comparing modern populations with contrasting environments. Individuals persisting in the ancestral habitat are typically used to represent the ancestral founding population; however, it ... -
Ancient DNA evidence for the ecological globalization of cod fishing in medieval and post-medieval Europe
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Understanding the historical emergence and growth of long-range fisheries can provide fundamental insights into the timing of ecological impacts and the development of coastal communities during the last millennium. ... -
Ancient DNA from a lost Negev Highlands desert grape reveals a Late Antiquity wine lineage
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Recent excavations of Late Antiquity settlements in the Negev Highlands of southern Israel uncovered a society that established commercial-scale viticulture in an arid environment [D. Fuks et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. ... -
Ancient DNA reveals a southern presence of the Northeast Arctic cod during the Holocene
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Climate change has been implicated in an increased number of distributional shifts of marine species during the last century. Nonetheless, it is unclear whether earlier climatic fluctuations had similar impacts. We use ... -
Ancient DNA reveals the timing and persistence of organellar genetic bottlenecks over 3,000 years of sunflower domestication and improvement
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Here, we report a comprehensive paleogenomic study of archaeological and ethnographic sunflower remains that provides significant new insights into the process of domestication of this important crop. DNA from both ancient ... -
Ancient DNA sequence quality is independent of fish bone weight
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The field of ancient DNA (aDNA) typically uses between 50 and 200 mg of minimum input weight of bone material for the extraction of DNA from archaeological remains. While laboratory and analysis techniques have focused on ... -
Ancient DNA suggests modern wolves trace their origin to a Late Pleistocene expansion from Beringia
(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
(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 ... -
Ancient genomes from Iceland reveal the making of a human population
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Opportunities to directly study the founding of a human population and its subsequent evolutionary history are rare. Using genome sequence data from 27 ancient Icelanders, we demonstrate that they are a combination of ... -
Ancient microRNA profiles of 14,300-yr-old canid samples confirm taxonomic origin and provide glimpses into tissue-specific gene regulation from the Pleistocene
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)DNA sequencing is the current key technology for historic or ancient biological samples and has led to many exciting discoveries in the field of paleogenomics. However, functional insights into tissue identity, cellular ... -
Ancient origin and maternal inheritance of blue cuckoo eggs
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Maternal inheritance via the female-specific W chromosome was long ago proposed as a potential solution to the evolutionary enigma of co-existing host-specific races (or ‘gentes’) in avian brood parasites. Here we report ... -
Ancient RNA from Late Pleistocene permafrost and historical canids shows tissue-specific transcriptome survival
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)While sequencing ancient DNA (aDNA) from archaeological material is now commonplace, very few attempts to sequence ancient transcriptomes have been made, even from typically stable deposition environments such as permafrost. ... -
An annotated checklist of bryophytes of Europe, Macaronesia and Cyprus
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Introduction. Following on from work on the European bryophyte Red List, the taxonomically and nomenclaturally updated spreadsheets used for that project have been expanded into a new checklist for the bryophytes of ... -
Applications of participatory monitoring in biodiversity science and conservation
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2023:90, Doctoral thesis, 2023)Meeting the challenge of the growing biodiversity crisis requires high quality biodiversity knowledge integrated across scales from local to international. But despite rapid developments in the collection, integration, and ...