• Ancient DNA from a lost Negev Highlands desert grape reveals a Late Antiquity wine lineage 

      Cohen, Pnina; Bacilieri, Roberto; Ramos-Madrigal, Jazmín; Privman, Eyal; Boaretto, Elisabetta; Weber, Audrey; Fuks, Daniel; Weiss, Ehud; Erickson-Gini, Tali; Bucking, Scott; Tepper, Yotam; Cvikel, Deborah; Schmidt, Joshua; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Wales, Nathan; Bar-Oz, Guy; Meiri, Meirav (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. ...
    • Changes in the functional diversity of modern bird species over the last million years 

      Germain, Ryan R.; Feng, Shaohong; Buffan, Lucas; Carmona, Carlos P.; Chen, Guangii; Graves, Gary R.; Tobias, Joseph A.; Rahbek, Carsten; Lei, Fumin; Fjeldså, Jon; Hosner, Peter A.; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Zhang, Guojie; Nogués-Bravo, David (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Despite evidence of declining biosphere integrity, we currently lack understanding of how the functional diversity associated with changes in abundance among ecological communities has varied over time and before widespread ...
    • The Earth BioGenome Project 2020: Starting the clock 

      Lewin, Harris A.; Richards, Stephen; Aiden, Erez Lieberman; Allende, Miguel L.; Archibald, John M.; Bálint, Miklós; Barker, Katharine B.; Baumgartner, Bridget; Belov, Katherine; Bertorelle, Giorgio; Blaxter, Mark L.; Cai, Jing; Caperello, Nicolette D.; Carlson, Keith; Castilla-Rubio, Juan Carlos; Chaw, Shu-Miaw; Chen, Lei; Childers, Anna K.; Coddington, Jonathan A.; Conde, Dalia A.; Corominas, Montserrat; Crandall, Keith A.; Crawford, Andrew J.; DiPalma, Federica; Durbin, Richard; Ebenezer, ThankGod E.; Edwards, Scott V.; Fedrigo, Olivier; Flicek, Paul; Formenti, Giulio; Gibbs, Richard A.; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Goldstein, Melissa M.; Graves, Jennifer Marshall; Greely, Henry T.; Grigoriev, Igor V.; Hackett, Kevin J.; Hall, Neil; Haussler, David; Helgen, Kristofer M.; Hogg, Carolyn J.; Isobe, Sachiko; Jakobsen, Kjetill Sigurd; Janke, Axel; Jarvis, Erich D.; Johnson, Warren E.; Jones, Steven J.M.; Karlsson, Elinor K.; Kersey, Paul J.; Kim, Jin-Hyoung; Kress, W. John; Kuraku, Shigehiro; Lawniczak, Mara K.N.; Leebens-Mack, James H.; Li, Xueyan; Lindblad-Toh, Kerstin; Liu, Xin; Lopez, Jose V.; Marques-Bonet, Tomas; Mazard, Sophie; Mazet, Jonna A.K.; Mazzoni, Camila J.; Myers, Eugene W.; O’Neill, Rachel J.; Paez, Sadye; Park, Hyun; Robinson, Gene E.; Roquet, Cristina; Ryder, Oliver A.; Sabir, Jamal S.M.; Shaffer, H. Bradley; Shank, Timothy M.; Sherkow, Jacob S.; Soltis, Pamela S.; Tang, Boping; Tedersoo, Leho; Uliano-Silva, Marcela; Wang, Kun; Wei, Xiaofeng; Wetzer, Regina; Wilson, Julia L.; Xu, Xun; Yang, Huanming; Yoder, Anne D.; Zhang, Guojie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
    • The impact of farming on prehistoric culinary practices throughout Northern Europe 

      Lucquin, Alexandre; Robson, Harry K.; Oras, Ester; Lundy, Jasmine; Moretti, Giulia; González Carretero, Lara; Dekker, Joannes; Demirci, Özge; Dolbunova, Ekaterina; McLaughlin, T. Rowan; Piezonka, Henny; Talbot, Helen M.; Adamczak, Kamil; Czekaj-Zastawny, Agnieszka; Groß, Daniel; Gumiński, Witold; Hartz, Sönke; Kabaciński, Jacek; Koivisto, Satu; Linge, Trond Eilev; Meyer, Ann-Katrin; Mökkönen, Teemu; Philippsen, Bente; Piličiauskas, Gytis; Visocka, Vanda; Kriiska, Aivar; Raemaekers, Daan; Meadows, John; Heron, Carl; Craig, Oliver E. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      To investigate changes in culinary practices associated with the arrival of farming, we analysed the organic residues of over 1,000 pottery vessels from hunter-gatherer-fisher and early agricultural sites across Northern ...
    • Long-term stability in the circumpolar foraging range of a Southern Ocean predator between the eras of whaling and rapid climate change 

      Derville, Solène; Torres, Leigh G.; Newsome, Seth D.; Somes, Christopher J.; Valenzuela, Luciano O.; Vander Zanden, Hannah B.; Baker, Charles Scott; Bérubé, Martine; Busquets-Vass, Geraldine; Carlyon, Kris; Childerhouse, Simon J.; Constantine, Rochelle; Dunshea, Glenn John; Flores, Paulo A. C.; Goldsworthy, Simon D.; Graham, Brittany; Groch, Karina; Gröcke, Darren R.; Harcourt, Robert; Hindell, Mark A.; Hulva, Pavel; Jackson, Jennifer A.; Kennedy, Amy S.; Lundquist, David; Mackay, Alice I.; Neveceralova, Petra; Oliveira, Larissa; Ott, Paulo H.; Palsbøll, Per J.; Patenaude, Nathalie J.; Rowntree, Victoria; Sironi, Mariano; Vermeuelen, Els; Watson, Mandy; Zerbini, Alexandre N.; Carroll, Emma L. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Assessing environmental changes in Southern Ocean ecosystems is difficult due to its remoteness and data sparsity. Monitoring marine predators that respond rapidly to environmental variation may enable us to track anthropogenic ...
    • Modern Siberian dog ancestry was shaped by several thousand years of Eurasian-wide trade and human dispersal 

      Feuerborn, Tatiana R.; Carmagnini, Alberto; Losey, Robert J.; Nomokonova, Tatiana; Askeyev, Arthur; Askeyev, Igor; Askeyev, Oleg; Antipina, Ekaterina E.; Appelt, Martin; Bachura, Olga P.; Beglane, Fiona; Bradley, Daniel G.; Daly, Kevin G.; Gopalakrishnan, Shyam; Gregersen, Kristian Murphy; Guo, Chunxue; Gusev, Andrei V.; Jones, Carleton; Kosintsev, Pavel A.; Kuzmin, Yaroslav V.; Mattiangeli, Valeria; Perri, Angela R.; Plekhanov, Andrei; Ramos-Madrigal, Jazmín; Schmidt, Anne Lisbeth; Shaymuratova, Dilyara; Smith, Oliver; Yavorskaya, Lilia V.; Zhang, Guojie; Willerslev, Eske; Meldgaard, Morten; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Larson, Greger; Dalén, Love; Hansen, Anders J.; Sinding, Mikkel-Holger S.; Frantz, Laurent (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Dogs have been essential to life in the Siberian Arctic for over 9,500 y, and this tight link between people and dogs continues in Siberian communities. Although Arctic Siberian groups such as the Nenets received limited ...
    • Population dynamics of Baltic herring since the Viking Age revealed by ancient DNA and genomics 

      Atmore, Lane Margaret; Martinez Garcia, Lourdes; Makowiecki, Daniel; André, Carl; Lõugas, Lembi; Barrett, James; Star, Bastiaan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The world’s oceans are currently facing major stressors in the form of overexploitation and anthropogenic climate change. The Baltic Sea was home to the first “industrial” fishery ∼800 y ago targeting the Baltic herring, ...