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Morten E. Allentoft
Life Sciences
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Microsatellite analysis of the natterjack toad (Bufo calamita) in Denmark: populations are islands in a fragmented landscape
The European natterjack toad (Bufo calamita) has declined rapidly in recent years, primarily due to loss of habitat, and in Denmark it is estimated that 50% of the isolated populations are lost each decade. To ef...
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Pretreatment: Improving Endogenous Ancient DNA Yields Using a Simple Enzymatic Predigestion Step
Ancient DNA samples generally contain a mixture of both endogenous and exogenous (contaminant) DNA. The authentic endogenous DNA content varies widely between samples and substrates but usually constitutes onl...
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Open AccessAncient Jomon genome sequence analysis sheds light on migration patterns of early East Asian populations
Anatomically modern humans reached East Asia more than 40,000 years ago. However, key questions still remain unanswered with regard to the route(s) and the number of wave(s) in the dispersal into East Eurasia....
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Raptor roosts as invasion archives: insights from the first black rat mitochondrial genome sequenced from the Caribbean
Raptor roosts, as accumulations of expelled pellets and nest material, serve as archives of past and present small mammal communities and could therefore be used to track invasive species population dynamics o...
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Open AccessGenomic ancestry, diet and microbiomes of Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers from San Teodoro cave
Recent improvements in the analysis of ancient biomolecules from human remains and associated dental calculus have provided new insights into the prehistoric diet and genetic diversity of our species. Here we ...
