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A Paleogenomic Perspective on Evolution and Gene Function: New Insights from Ancient DNA by Shapiro, B., Hofreiter, M.

“…The publication of partial and complete paleogenomes within the last few years has reinvigorated research in ancient DNA. No longer limited to short fragments…”
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Ancient Ethiopian genome reveals extensive Eurasian admixture throughout the African continent by Llorente, M. Gallego, Jones, E. R., Eriksson, A., Siska, V., Arthur, K. W., Arthur, J. W., Curtis, M. C., Stock, J. T., Coltorti, M., Pieruccini, P., Stretton, S., Brock, F., Higham, T., Park, Y., Hofreiter, M., Bradley, D. G., Bhak, J., Pinhasi, R., Manica, A.

“…Characterizing genetic diversity in Africa is a crucial step for most analyses reconstructing the evolutionary history of anatomically modern humans. However,…”
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Paging through history: parchment as a reservoir of ancient DNA for next generation sequencing by Teasdale, M. D., van Doorn, N. L., Fiddyment, S., Webb, C. C., O'Connor, T., Hofreiter, M., Collins, M. J., Bradley, D. G.

“…Parchment represents an invaluable cultural reservoir. Retrieving an additional layer of information from these abundant, dated livestock-skins via the use of…”
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The genetics of an early Neolithic pastoralist from the Zagros, Iran by Gallego-Llorente, M., Connell, S., Jones, E. R., Merrett, D. C., Jeon, Y., Eriksson, A., Siska, V., Gamba, C., Meiklejohn, C., Beyer, R., Jeon, S., Cho, Y. S., Hofreiter, M., Bhak, J., Manica, A., Pinhasi, R.

“…The agricultural transition profoundly changed human societies. We sequenced and analysed the first genome (1.39x) of an early Neolithic woman from Ganj Dareh,…”
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A western route of prehistoric human migration from Africa into the Iberian Peninsula by González-Fortes, G, Tassi, F, Trucchi, E, Henneberger, K, Paijmans, J L A, Díez-Del-Molino, D, Schroeder, H, Susca, R R, Barroso-Ruíz, C, Bermudez, F J, Barroso-Medina, C, Bettencourt, A M S, Sampaio, H A, Grandal-d'Anglade, A, Salas, A, de Lombera-Hermida, A, Fabregas Valcarce, R, Vaquero, M, Alonso, S, Lozano, M, Rodríguez-Alvarez, X P, Fernández-Rodríguez, C, Manica, A, Hofreiter, M, Barbujani, G

“…Being at the western fringe of Europe, Iberia had a peculiar prehistory and a complex pattern of Neolithization. A few studies, all based on modern…”
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Patterns of Nucleotide Misincorporations during Enzymatic Amplification and Direct Large-scale Sequencing of Ancient DNA by Stiller, M., Green, R. E., Ronan, M., Simons, J. F., Du, L., He, W., Egholm, M., Rothberg, J. M., Keats, S. G., Ovodov, N. D., Antipina, E. E., Baryshnikov, G. F., Kuzmin, Y. V., Vasilevski, A. A., Wuenschell, G. E., Termini, J., Hofreiter, M., Jaenicke-Després, V., Pääbo, S.

“…Whereas evolutionary inferences derived from present-day DNA sequences are by necessity indirect, ancient DNA sequences provide a direct view of past genetic…”
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DNA sequences from multiple amplifications reveal artifacts induced by cytosine deamination in ancient DNA by Hofreiter, M.

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Paternity and Relatedness in Wild Chimpanzee Communities by Vigilant, Linda, Hofreiter, Michael, Siedel, Heike, Boesch, Christophe

“…The genetic structure of three contiguous wild chimpanzee communities in West Africa was examined to determine the extent to which the community, the mixed-sex…”
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A molecular analysis of ground sloth diet through the last glaciation by Hofreiter, M., Poinar, H. N., Spaulding, W. G., Bauer, K., Martin, P. S., Possnert, G., Pääbo, S.

“…DNA was extracted from five coprolites, excavated in Gypsum Cave, Nevada and radiocarbon dated to approximately 11 000, 20 000 and 28 500 years bp. All…”
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phantom extinction? New insights into extinction dynamics of the Don-hare Lepus tanaiticus by PROST, S, KNAPP, M, FLEMMIG, J, HUFTHAMMER, A.K, KOSINTSEV, P, STILLER, M, HOFREITER, M

“…The Pleistocene to Holocene transition was accompanied by a worldwide extinction event affecting numerous mammalian species. Several species such as the woolly…”
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Nuclear insertions help and hinder inference of the evolutionary history of gorilla mtDNA by THALMANN, O., SERRE, D., HOFREITER, M., LUKAS, D., ERIKSSON, J., VIGILANT, L.

“…Numts are fragments of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) that have been translocated to the nucleus, where they can persist while their mitochondrial counterparts…”
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Mutations induced by ancient DNA extracts? by Serre, D, Hofreiter, M, Pääbo, S

“…We have investigated whether some factor in ancient DNA extracts induces site-specific mutations in modern DNA. We find no evidence for higher mutation rates…”
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G Protein-Coupled Time Travel: Evolutionary Aspects of GPCR Research by Römpler, Holger, Stäubert, Claudia, Thor, Doreen, Schulz, Angela, Hofreiter, Michael, Schöneberg, Torsten

“…The common seven-transmembrane–domain (TMD) architecture of G protein–coupled receptors (GPCRs) has been preserved over a vast period of time, and highly…”
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Million-year-old DNA sheds light on the genomic history of mammoths by van der Valk, Tom, Pečnerová, Patrícia, Díez-del-Molino, David, Bergström, Anders, Oppenheimer, Jonas, Hartmann, Stefanie, Xenikoudakis, Georgios, Thomas, Jessica A., Dehasque, Marianne, Sağlıcan, Ekin, Fidan, Fatma Rabia, Barnes, Ian, Liu, Shanlin, Somel, Mehmet, Heintzman, Peter D., Nikolskiy, Pavel, Shapiro, Beth, Skoglund, Pontus, Hofreiter, Michael, Lister, Adrian M., Götherström, Anders, Dalén, Love

“…Temporal genomic data hold great potential for studying evolutionary processes such as speciation. However, sampling across speciation events would, in many…”
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Long DNA sequences and large data sets: investigating the Quaternary via ancient DNA by Hofreiter, Michael

“…Progress in technical development has allowed piecing together increasingly long DNA sequences from subfossil remains of both extinct and extant species. At…”
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Middle Pleistocene genome calibrates a revised evolutionary history of extinct cave bears by Barlow, Axel, Paijmans, Johanna L.A., Alberti, Federica, Gasparyan, Boris, Bar-Oz, Guy, Pinhasi, Ron, Foronova, Irina, Puzachenko, Andrey Y., Pacher, Martina, Dalén, Love, Baryshnikov, Gennady, Hofreiter, Michael

“…Palaeogenomes provide the potential to study evolutionary processes in real time, but this potential is limited by our ability to recover genetic data over…”
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Assessing ancient DNA studies by Gilbert, M. Thomas P., Bandelt, Hans-Jürgen, Hofreiter, Michael, Barnes, Ian

“…The study of ancient DNA has the potential to make significant and unique contributions to ecology and evolution. However, the techniques used contain inherent…”
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Pleistocene Extinctions: Haunting the Survivors by Hofreiter, Michael

“…For many years, the megafaunal extinctions at the end of the Pleistocene have been assumed to have affected only those species that became extinct. However,…”
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Genetic analyses from ancient DNA by Pääbo, Svante, Poinar, Hendrik, Serre, David, Jaenicke-Despres, Viviane, Hebler, Juliane, Rohland, Nadin, Kuch, Melanie, Krause, Johannes, Vigilant, Linda, Hofreiter, Michael

“…About 20 years ago, DNA sequences were separately described from the quagga (a type of zebra) and an ancient Egyptian individual. What made these DNA sequences…”
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DNA from Pre-Clovis Human Coprolites in Oregon, North America by Gilbert, M. Thomas P, Jenkins, Dennis L, Götherstrom, Anders, Naveran, Nuria, Sanchez, Juan J, Hofreiter, Michael, Thomsen, Philip Francis, Binladen, Jonas, Higham, Thomas F.G, Yohe, Robert M. II, Parr, Robert, Cummings, Linda Scott, Willerslev, Eske

“…The timing of the first human migration into the Americas and its relation to the appearance of the Clovis technological complex in North America at about…”
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