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2022

  • Genetic population structure defines wild boar as an urban exploiter species in Barcelona, Spain. Hagemann, J., Conejero, C., Stillfried, M., Mentaberre, G., Castillo-Contreras, R., Fickel, J., & López-Olvera, J. R. (2022).. Science of The Total Environment, 833, 155126. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155126
  • Genome Sequencing of up to 6,000-Year-Old Citrullus Seeds Reveals Use of a Bitter-Fleshed Species Prior to Watermelon Domestication. Pérez-Escobar OA, Tusso S, Przelomska NAS, Wu S, Ryan P, Nesbitt M, Silber MV, Preick M, Fei Z, Hofreiter M, Chomicki G, Renner SS. Mol Biol Evol. 2022 Aug 3;39(8):msac168. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msac168.
  • Grey wolf genomic history reveals a dual ancestry of dogs. Bergström A, Stanton DWG, Taron UH, Frantz L, Sinding MS, Ersmark E, Pfrengle S, Cassatt-Johnstone M, Lebrasseur O, Girdland-Flink L, Fernandes DM, Ollivier M, Speidel L, Gopalakrishnan S, Westbury MV, Ramos-Madrigal J, Feuerborn TR, Reiter E, Gretzinger J, Münzel SC, Swali P, Conard NJ, Carøe C, Haile J, Linderholm A, Androsov S, Barnes I, Baumann C, Benecke N, Bocherens H, Brace S, Carden RF, Drucker DG, Fedorov S, Gasparik M, Germonpré M, Grigoriev S, Groves P, Hertwig ST, Ivanova VV, Janssens L, Jennings RP, Kasparov AK, Kirillova IV, Kurmaniyazov I, Kuzmin YV, Kosintsev PA, Lázničková-Galetová M, Leduc C, Nikolskiy P, Nussbaumer M, O'Drisceoil C, Orlando L, Outram A, Pavlova EY, Perri AR, Pilot M, Pitulko VV, Plotnikov VV, Protopopov AV, Rehazek A, Sablin M, Seguin-Orlando A, Storå J, Verjux C, Zaibert VF, Zazula G, Crombé P, Hansen AJ, Willerslev E, Leonard JA, Götherström A, Pinhasi R, Schuenemann VJ, Hofreiter M, Gilbert MTP, Shapiro B, Larson G, Krause J, Dalén L, Skoglund P. Nature. 2022 Jul;607(7918):313-320. doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04824-9. Epub 2022 Jun 29.
  • Evolutionary Divergence and Radula Diversification in Two Ecomorphs from an Adaptive Radiation of Freshwater Snails. Hilgers L, Hartmann S, Pfaender J, Lentge-Maaß N, Marwoto RM, von Rintelen T, Hofreiter M. Genes (Basel). 2022 Jun 8;13(6):1029. doi: 10.3390/genes13061029.
  • Genomic basis for skin phenotype and cold adaptation in the extinct Steller's sea cow. Le Duc D, Velluva A, Cassatt-Johnstone M, Olsen RA, Baleka S, Lin CC, Lemke JR, Southon JR, Burdin A, Wang MS, Grunewald S, Rosendahl W, Joger U, Rutschmann S, Hildebrandt TB, Fritsch G, Estes JA, Kelso J, Dalén L, Hofreiter M, Shapiro B, Schöneberg T. Sci Adv. 2022 Feb 4;8(5):eabl6496. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abl6496. Epub 2022 Feb 4.
  • Paleogenomes Reveal a Complex Evolutionary History of Late Pleistocene Bison in Northeastern China (2022) Xindong Hou, Jian Zhao, Hucai Zhang, Michaela Preick, Jiaming Hu, Bo Xiao, Linying Wang, Miaoxuan Deng, Sizhao Liu, Fengqin Chang, Guilian Sheng, Xulong Lai, Michael Hofreiter, Junxia Yuan, Genes 2022, 13(10), 1684; doi.org/10.3390/genes13101684
  • “Omics” data unveil early molecular response underlying limb regeneration in the Chinese mitten crab, Eriocheir sinensis (2022) Jun Wang, Xiaowen Chen, Xin Hou, Jingan Wang, Wucheng Yue, Shu Huang, Gangchun Xu, Jizhou Yan, Guoqing Lu, Michael Hofreiter, Chenhong Li, Chenghui Wang, SCIENCE ADVANCES 16 Sep 2022 Vol 8, Issue 37 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abl4642
  • Taxonomic Identification of Two Poorly Known Lantern Shark Species Based on Mitochondrial DNA from Wet-Collection Paratypes (2022) Stefanie Agne, Gavin JP Naylor, Michaela Preick, Lei Yang, Ralf Thiel, Simon Weigmann, Johanna LA Paijmans, Axel Barlow, Michael Hofreiter, Nicolas Straube, Front. Ecol. Evol., Volume 10 | Article 910009, 30 June 2022 doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.910009
  • Simultaneous Barcode Sequencing of Diverse Museum Collection Specimens Using a Mixed RNA Bait Set (2022) Stefanie Agne , Michaela Preick, Nicolas Straube and Michael Hofreiter, Front. Ecol. Evol., Volume 10 | Article 909846, 17 June 2022 doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.909846
  • Ancient genome provides insights into the history of Eurasian lynx in Iberia and Western Europe (2022) María Lucena-Perez, Enrico Bazzicalupo, Johanna Paijmans, Daniel Kleinman-Ruiz, Love Dalén, Michael Hofreiter, Miguel Delibes, Miguel Clavero, José A Godoy, Quaternary Science Reviews, Volume 285, 1 June 2022, 107518, doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107518
  • The cave bears from the Grotta dell’Orso near Gabrovizza (Trieste, Italy). Fossil bear remains of the collection Ludwig Karl Moser at the Natural History Museum Vienna. (2022 oder 2021) Nadja Kavcik-Graumann, Federica Alberti, Doris Döppes, Alessio Fabbricatore, Ronny Friedrich, Michael Hofreiter, Susanne Lindauer, Wilfried Rosendahl & Gernot Rabeder, e-Research Reports of Museum Burg Golling 7: 1-7.

2021

  • Revisiting proboscidean phylogeny and evolution through total evidence and palaeogenetic analyses including Notiomastodon ancient DNA. Baleka S, Varela L, Tambusso PS, Paijmans JLA, Mothé D, Stafford TW Jr, Fariña RA, Hofreiter M. iScience. 2021 Dec 4;25(1):103559. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2021.103559. eCollection 2022 Jan 21.
  • Target-enriched DNA sequencing clarifies the identity of name-bearing types of the Gephyromantis plicifer complex and reveals a new species of mantellid frog from Madagascar (2021) Miguel Vences, Jörn Köhler, Franco Andreone, Ann-Kristin Craul, Angelica Crottini, Louis du Preez, Michaela Preick, Lois Rancilhac, Mark-Oliver Rödel, Mark D. Scherz, Jeffrey W. Streicher, Michael Hofreiter & Frank Glaw, SPIXIANA 44 2 175-202, München, December 2021 ISSN 0341-8391
  • Exploring the Past Biosphere of Chew Bahir/Southern Ethiopia: Cross-Species Hybridization Capture of Ancient Sedimentary DNA from a Deep Drill Core (2021) Johanna Krueger, Verena Foerster, Martin H Trauth, Michael Hofreiter, Ralph Tiedemann, Front. Earth Sci. 9:683010. doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.683010
  • Ancient Mitogenomes Provide New Insights into the Origin and Early Introduction of Chinese Domestic Donkeys. Wang L, Sheng G, Preick M, Hu S, Deng T, Taron UH, Barlow A, Hu J, Xiao B, Sun G, Song S, Hou X, Lai X, Hofreiter M, Yuan J. Front Genet. 2021 Oct 15;12:759831. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2021.759831. eCollection 2021.
  • The origins and spread of domestic horses from the Western Eurasian steppes. Librado P, Khan N, Fages A, Kusliy MA, Suchan T, Tonasso-Calvière L, Schiavinato S, Alioglu D, Fromentier A, Perdereau A, Aury JM, Gaunitz C, Chauvey L, Seguin-Orlando A, Der Sarkissian C, Southon J, Shapiro B, Tishkin AA, Kovalev AA, Alquraishi S, Alfarhan AH, Al-Rasheid KAS, Seregély T, Klassen L, Iversen R, Bignon-Lau O, Bodu P, Olive M, Castel JC, Boudadi-Maligne M, Alvarez N, Germonpré M, Moskal-Del Hoyo M, Wilczyński J, Pospuła S, Lasota-Kuś A, Tunia K, Nowak M, Rannamäe E, Saarma U, Boeskorov G, Lōugas L, Kyselý R, Peške L, Bălășescu A, Dumitrașcu V, Dobrescu R, Gerber D, Kiss V, Szécsényi-Nagy A, Mende BG, Gallina Z, Somogyi K, Kulcsár G, Gál E, Bendrey R, Allentoft ME, Sirbu G, Dergachev V, Shephard H, Tomadini N, Grouard S, Kasparov A, Basilyan AE, Anisimov MA, Nikolskiy PA, Pavlova EY, Pitulko V, Brem G, Wallner B, Schwall C, Keller M, Kitagawa K, Bessudnov AN, Bessudnov A, Taylor W, Magail J, Gantulga JO, Bayarsaikhan J, Erdenebaatar D, Tabaldiev K, Mijiddorj E, Boldgiv B, Tsagaan T, Pruvost M, Olsen S, Makarewicz CA, Valenzuela Lamas S, Albizuri Canadell S, Nieto Espinet A, Iborra MP, Lira Garrido J, Rodríguez González E, Celestino S, Olària C, Arsuaga JL, Kotova N, Pryor A, Crabtree P, Zhumatayev R, Toleubaev A, Morgunova NL, Kuznetsova T, Lordkipanize D, Marzullo M, Prato O, Bagnasco Gianni G, Tecchiati U, Clavel B, Lepetz S, Davoudi H, Mashkour M, Berezina NY, Stockhammer PW, Krause J, Haak W, Morales-Muñiz A, Benecke N, Hofreiter M, Ludwig A, Graphodatsky AS, Peters J, Kiryushin KY, Iderkhangai TO, Bokovenko NA, Vasiliev SK, Seregin NN, Chugunov KV, Plasteeva NA, Baryshnikov GF, Petrova E, Sablin M, Ananyevskaya E, Logvin A, Shevnina I, Logvin V, Kalieva S, Loman V, Kukushkin I, Merz I, Merz V, Sakenov S, Varfolomeyev V, Usmanova E, Zaibert V, Arbuckle B, Belinskiy AB, Kalmykov A, Reinhold S, Hansen S, Yudin AI, Vybornov AA, Epimakhov A, Berezina NS, Roslyakova N, Kosintsev PA, Kuznetsov PF, Anthony D, Kroonen GJ, Kristiansen K, Wincker P, Outram A, Orlando L. Nature. 2021 Oct;598(7882):634-640. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-04018-9. Epub 2021 Oct 20.
  • Mitochondrial DNA sequencing of a wet-collection syntype demonstrates the importance of type material as genetic resource for lantern shark taxonomy (Chondrichthyes: Etmopteridae). Straube N, Preick M, Naylor GJP, Hofreiter M. R Soc Open Sci. 2021 Sep 15;8(9):210474. doi: 10.1098/rsos.210474. eCollection 2021 Sep.
  • Diversity and Paleodemography of the Addax (Addax nasomaculatus), a Saharan Antelope on the Verge of Extinction. Hempel E, Westbury MV, Grau JH, Trinks A, Paijmans JLA, Kliver S, Barlow A, Mayer F, Müller J, Chen L, Koepfli KP, Hofreiter M, Bibi F. Genes (Basel). 2021 Aug 11;12(8):1236. doi: 10.3390/genes12081236.
  • Ecological Specialization and Evolutionary Reticulation in Extant Hyaenidae. Westbury MV, Le Duc D, Duchêne DA, Krishnan A, Prost S, Rutschmann S, Grau JH, Dalén L, Weyrich A, Norén K, Werdelin L, Dalerum F, Schöneberg T, Hofreiter M. Mol Biol Evol. 2021 Aug 23;38(9):3884-3897. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msab055.
  • Progress in forensic bone DNA analysis: Lessons learned from ancient DNA. Hofreiter M, Sneberger J, Pospisek M, Vanek D. Forensic Sci Int Genet. 2021 Sep;54:102538. doi: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2021.102538. Epub 2021 May 29.
  • Molecular Clocks and Archeogenomics of a Late Period Egyptian Date Palm Leaf Reveal Introgression from Wild Relatives and Add Timestamps on the Domestication. Pérez-Escobar OA, Bellot S, Przelomska NAS, Flowers JM, Nesbitt M, Ryan P, Gutaker RM, Gros-Balthazard M, Wells T, Kuhnhäuser BG, Schley R, Bogarín D, Dodsworth S, Diaz R, Lehmann M, Petoe P, Eiserhardt WL, Preick M, Hofreiter M, Hajdas I, Purugganan M, Antonelli A, Gravendeel B, Leitch IJ, Jimenez MFT, Papadopulos AST, Chomicki G, Renner SS, Baker WJ. Mol Biol Evol. 2021 Sep 27;38(10):4475-4492. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msab188.
  • A sliver of the past: The decimation of the genetic diversity of the Mexican wolf. Taron UH, Salado I, Escobar-Rodríguez M, Westbury MV, Butschkau S, Paijmans JLA, vonHoldt BM, Hofreiter M, Leonard JA. Mol Ecol. 2021 Dec;30(23):6340-6354. doi: 10.1111/mec.16037. Epub 2021 Jul 10.
  • Estimating the dwarfing rate of an extinct Sicilian elephant. Baleka S, Herridge VL, Catalano G, Lister AM, Dickinson MR, Di Patti C, Barlow A, Penkman KEH, Hofreiter M, Paijmans JLA. Curr Biol. 2021 Aug 23;31(16):3606-3612.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.05.037. Epub 2021 Jun 18.
  • Recovery and analysis of ancient beetle DNA from subfossil packrat middens using high-throughput sequencing. Smith AD, Kamiński MJ, Kanda K, Sweet AD, Betancourt JL, Holmgren CA, Hempel E, Alberti F, Hofreiter M. Sci Rep. 2021 Jun 16;11(1):12635. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-91896-8.
  • Mitogenomes of historical type specimens unravel the taxonomy of sportive lemurs (Lepilemur spp.) in Northwest Madagascar. Roos C, Miguez RP, Sabin R, Jr EEL, Hofreiter M, Zinner D. Zool Res. 2021 Jul 18;42(4):428-432. doi: 10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2021.157.
  • Successful application of ancient DNA extraction and library construction protocols to museum wet collection specimens. Straube N, Lyra ML, Paijmans JLA, Preick M, Basler N, Penner J, Rödel MO, Westbury MV, Haddad CFB, Barlow A, Hofreiter M. Mol Ecol Resour. 2021 Oct;21(7):2299-2315. doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.13433. Epub 2021 Jun 16.
  • Insight into the introduction of domestic cattle and the process of Neolithization to the Spanish region Galicia by genetic evidence. Gurke M, Vidal-Gorosquieta A, Pajimans JLA, Wȩcek K, Barlow A, González-Fortes G, Hartmann S, Grandal-d'Anglade A, Hofreiter M. PLoS One. 2021 Apr 28;16(4):e0249537. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0249537. eCollection 2021.
  • African and Asian leopards are highly differentiated at the genomic level. Paijmans JLA, Barlow A, Becker MS, Cahill JA, Fickel J, Förster DWG, Gries K, Hartmann S, Havmøller RW, Henneberger K, Kern C, Kitchener AC, Lorenzen ED, Mayer F, OBrien SJ, von Seth J, Sinding MS, Spong G, Uphyrkina O, Wachter B, Westbury MV, Dalén L, Bhak J, Manica A, Hofreiter M. Curr Biol. 2021 May 10;31(9):1872-1882.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.03.084. Epub 2021 Apr 12.
  • Million-year-old DNA sheds light on the genomic history of mammoths. van der Valk T, Pečnerová P, Díez-Del-Molino D, Bergström A, Oppenheimer J, Hartmann S, Xenikoudakis G, Thomas JA, Dehasque M, Sağlıcan E, Fidan FR, Barnes I, Liu S, Somel M, Heintzman PD, Nikolskiy P, Shapiro B, Skoglund P, Hofreiter M, Lister AM, Götherström A, Dalén L. Nature. 2021 Mar;591(7849):265-269. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03224-9. Epub 2021 Feb 17.
  • Middle Pleistocene genome calibrates a revised evolutionary history of extinct cave bears. Barlow A, Paijmans JLA, Alberti F, Gasparyan B, Bar-Oz G, Pinhasi R, Foronova I, Puzachenko AY, Pacher M, Dalén L, Baryshnikov G, Hofreiter M. Curr Biol. 2021 Apr 26;31(8):1771-1779.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.01.073. Epub 2021 Feb 15.
  • Doris Döppes, Federica Alberti, Axel Barlow, Sebastian Krutter, Ronny Friedrich, Michael Hofreiter, Susanne Lindauer, Nadja Kavcik-Graumann, Wilfried Rosendahl & Gernot Rabeder (2021) The late pleistocene cave bear fauna of the Torrener Bärenhöhle in the northern alps (Salzburg, Austria), Historical Biology, DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2020.1849175 published online 14th Feb 2021
  • Ancient mitochondrial genomes from Chinese cave hyenas provide insights into the evolutionary history of the genus Crocuta. Hu J, Westbury MV, Yuan J, Zhang Z, Chen S, Xiao B, Hou X, Ji H, Lai X, Hofreiter M, Sheng G. Proc Biol Sci. 2021 Jan 27;288(1943):20202934. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.2934. Epub 2021 Jan 27.
  • Ancient DNA from the Asiatic Wild Dog (Cuon alpinus) from Europe. Taron UH, Paijmans JLA, Barlow A, Preick M, Iyengar A, Drăgușin V, Vasile Ș, Marciszak A, Roblíčková M, Hofreiter M. Genes (Basel). 2021 Jan 22;12(2):144. doi: 10.3390/genes12020144.
  • Identifying the true number of specimens of the extinct blue antelope (Hippotragus leucophaeus). Hempel E, Bibi F, Faith JT, Brink JS, Kalthoff DC, Kamminga P, Paijmans JLA, Westbury MV, Hofreiter M, Zachos FE. Sci Rep. 2021 Jan 22;11(1):2100. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-80142-2.

2020

  • Moose genomes reveal past glacial demography and the origin of modern lineages. Dussex N, Alberti F, Heino MT, Olsen RA, van der Valk T, Ryman N, Laikre L, Ahlgren H, Askeyev IV, Askeyev OV, Shaymuratova DN, Askeyev AO, Döppes D, Friedrich R, Lindauer S, Rosendahl W, Aspi J, Hofreiter M, Lidén K, Dalén L, Díez-Del-Molino D. BMC Genomics. 2020 Dec 2;21(1):854. doi: 10.1186/s12864-020-07208-3.
  • Junxia Yuan a, b, * , Guilian Sheng b , Michaela Preick c , Boyang Sun d , Xindong Hou b ,Shungang Chen a , Ulrike Helene Taron c , Axel Barlow c, e , Linying Wang a , Jiaming Hu b ,Tao Deng d , Xulong Lai b , Michael Hofreiter c, ** Mitochondrial genomes of Late Pleistocene caballine horses from China belong to a separate clade. Quaternary Science Reviews. 250 (2020) 106691, published online 15th December 2020.
  • Mitogenomic phylogeny of the Asian colobine genus Trachypithecus with special focus on Trachypithecus phayrei (Blyth, 1847) and description of a new species. Roos C, Helgen KM, Miguez RP, Thant NML, Lwin N, Lin AK, Lin A, Yi KM, Soe P, Hein ZM, Myint MNN, Ahmed T, Chetry D, Urh M, Veatch EG, Duncan N, Kamminga P, Chua MAH, Yao L, Matauschek C, Meyer D, Liu ZJ, Li M, Nadler T, Fan PF, Quyet LK, Hofreiter M, Zinner D, Momberg F. Zool Res. 2020 Nov 18;41(6):656-669. doi: 10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2020.254.
  • 'Barcode fishing' for archival DNA from historical type material overcomes taxonomic hurdles, enabling the description of a new frog species. Scherz MD, Rasolonjatovo SM, Köhler J, Rancilhac L, Rakotoarison A, Raselimanana AP, Ohler A, Preick M, Hofreiter M, Glaw F, Vences M. Sci Rep. 2020 Nov 5;10(1):19109. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-75431-9.
  • Phylotranscriptomic evidence for pervasive ancient hybridization among Old World salamanders. Rancilhac L, Irisarri I, Angelini C, Arntzen JW, Babik W, Bossuyt F, Künzel S, Lüddecke T, Pasmans F, Sanchez E, Weisrock D, Veith M, Wielstra B, Steinfartz S, Hofreiter M, Philippe H, Vences M. Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2021 Feb;155:106967. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106967. Epub 2020 Oct 6.
  • Annotated genome sequences of the carnivorous plant Roridula gorgonias and a non-carnivorous relative, Clethra arborea. Hartmann S, Preick M, Abelt S, Scheffel A, Hofreiter M. BMC Res Notes. 2020 Sep 10;13(1):426. doi: 10.1186/s13104-020-05254-4.
  • Reconstructing protein-coding sequences from ancient DNA. Hofreiter M, Hartmann S. Methods Enzymol. 2020;642:21-33. doi: 10.1016/bs.mie.2020.05.008. Epub 2020 Jun 19.
  • Patrick Arnold Evolution of the Mammalian Neck from Developmental, Morpho-Functional, and Paleontological Perspectives. 2020. Journal of Mammalian Evolution doi.org/10.1007/s10914-020-09506-9. Published online 4th June 2020.
  • High-throughput DNA sequencing of museum specimens sheds light on the long-missing species of the Bokermannohyla claresignata group (Anura: Hylidae: Cophomantini)  Mariana L Lyra, Ana Carolina C Lourenço, Paulo D P Pinheiro, Tiago L Pezzuti, Délio Baêta, Axel Barlow, Michael Hofreiter, José P Pombal, JR, Célio F B Haddad, Julián Faivovich Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 190, Issue 4, December 2020, Pages 1235–1255, doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa033
  • Haruda A, Ventresca Miller AR, Paijmans JLA, Barlow A, Tazhekeyev A, Bilalov S, Hesse Y, Preick M, King T, Thomas R, Härke H, Arzhantseva I (2020) The earliest domestic cat on the Silk Road. Scientific Reports 10: 11241. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-67798-6
  • Functional insights from the GC-poor genomes of two aphid parasitoids, Aphidius ervi and Lysiphlebus fabarum 2020 Alice B Dennis 1 2 3, Gabriel I Ballesteros 4 5 6, Stéphanie Robin 7 8, Lukas Schrader 9, Jens Bast 10 11, Jan Berghöfer 9, Leo W Beukeboom 12, Maya Belghazi 13, Anthony Bretaudeau 7 8, Jan Buellesbach 9, Elizabeth Cash 14, Dominique Colinet 15, Zoé Dumas 10, Mohammed Errbii 9, Patrizia Falabella 16, Jean-Luc Gatti 15, Elzemiek Geuverink 12, Joshua D Gibson 14 17, Corinne Hertaeg 18 19, Stefanie Hartmann 20, Emmanuelle Jacquin-Joly 21, Mark Lammers 9, Blas I Lavandero 6, Ina Lindenbaum 9, Lauriane Massardier-Galata 15, Camille Meslin 21, Nicolas Montagné 21, Nina Pak 14, Marylène Poirié 15, Rosanna Salvia 16, Chris R Smith 22, Denis Tagu 7, Sophie Tares 15, Heiko Vogel 23, Tanja Schwander 10, Jean-Christophe Simon 7, Christian C Figueroa 4 5, Christoph Vorburger 18 24, Fabrice Legeai 7 8, Jürgen Gadau 25 BMC Genomics 2020 May 29;21(1):376. doi: 10.1186/s12864-020-6764-0.
  • Early Pleistocene origin and extensive intra-species diversity of the extinct cave lion. Stanton DWG, Alberti F, Plotnikov V, Androsov S, Grigoriev S, Fedorov S, Kosintsev P, Nagel D, Vartanyan S, Barnes I, Barnett R, Ersmark E, Döppes D, Germonpré M, Hofreiter M, Rosendahl W, Skoglund P, Dalén L. Sci Rep. 2020 Jul 28;10(1):12621. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-69474-1.
  • Ancestral mitogenome capture of the Southeast Asian banded linsang. Paijmans JLA, Barlow A, Henneberger K, Fickel J, Hofreiter M, Foerster DWG. PLoS One. 2020 Jun 30;15(6):e0234385. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0234385. eCollection 2020.
  • Target-enriched DNA sequencing from historical type material enables a partial revision of the Madagascar giant stream frogs (genus Mantidactylus) Loïs Rancilhac, Teddy Bruy, Mark D. Scherz, Elvis Almeida Pereira, Michaela Preick, Nicolas Straube, Mariana L. Lyra, Annemarie Ohler Icon, Jeffrey W. Streicher, Franco Andreone, Angelica Crottini, Carl R. Hutter, J. Christian Randrianantoandro, Andolalao Rakotoarison, Frank Glaw, Michael Hofreiter & Miguel Vences Journal of Natural History Volume 54, 2020 - Issue 1-4: Amphibian taxonomy: Early 21st century case studies Pages 87-118 | Received 15 Oct 2019, Accepted 20 Mar 2020, Published online: 06 May 2020
  • Heavy reliance on plants for Romanian cave bears evidenced by amino acid nitrogen isotope analysis. Naito YI, Meleg IN, Robu M, Vlaicu M, Drucker DG, Wißing C, Hofreiter M, Barlow A, Bocherens H. Sci Rep. 2020 Apr 20;10(1):6612. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-62990-0.
  • Hyena paleogenomes reveal a complex evolutionary history of cross-continental gene flow between spotted and cave hyena. Westbury MV, Hartmann S, Barlow A, Preick M, Ridush B, Nagel D, Rathgeber T, Ziegler R, Baryshnikov G, Sheng G, Ludwig A, Wiesel I, Dalen L, Bibi F, Werdelin L, Heller R, Hofreiter M. Sci Adv. 2020 Mar 13;6(11):eaay0456. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aay0456. eCollection 2020 Mar.
  • Ancient DNA reveals twenty million years of aquatic life in beavers. Xenikoudakis G, Ahmed M, Harris JC, Wadleigh R, Paijmans JLA, Hartmann S, Barlow A, Lerner H, Hofreiter M. Curr Biol. 2020 Feb 3;30(3):R110-R111. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.12.041.
  • Consensify: A Method for Generating Pseudohaploid Genome Sequences from Palaeogenomic Datasets with Reduced Error Rates. Barlow A, Hartmann S, Gonzalez J, Hofreiter M, Paijmans JLA. Genes (Basel). 2020 Jan 2;11(1):50. doi: 10.3390/genes11010050.

2019

  • Binia De Cahsan  and Michael V. Westbury  and Michael Hofreiter and Karin Norén  and Fredrik Dalerum 2020, Aardwolf population diversity and phylogenetic positioning inferred using complete mitochondrial genomes. African Journal of Wildlife Research, volume 49 (1): 27-33. doi.org/10.3957/056.049.0027
  • Demographic reconstruction from ancient DNA supports rapid extinction of the great auk. Thomas JE, Carvalho GR, Haile J, Rawlence NJ, Martin MD, Ho SY, Sigfússon AÞ, Jósefsson VA, Frederiksen M, Linnebjerg JF, Samaniego Castruita JA, Niemann J, Sinding MS, Sandoval-Velasco M, Soares AE, Lacy R, Barilaro C, Best J, Brandis D, Cavallo C, Elorza M, Garrett KL, Groot M, Johansson F, Lifjeld JT, Nilson G, Serjeanston D, Sweet P, Fuller E, Hufthammer AK, Meldgaard M, Fjeldså J, Shapiro B, Hofreiter M, Stewart JR, Gilbert MTP, Knapp M. Elife. 2019 Nov 26;8:e47509. doi: 10.7554/eLife.47509.
  • Different maternal lineages revealed by ancient mitochondrial genome of Camelus bactrianus from China. Chen SG, Li J, Zhang F, Xiao B, Hu JM, Cui YQ, Hofreiter M, Hou XD, Sheng GL, Lai XL, Yuan JX. Mitochondrial DNA A DNA Mapp Seq Anal. 2019 Oct;30(7):786-793. doi: 10.1080/24701394.2019.1659250. Epub 2019 Sep 23.
  • Paraskevopoulou S, Dennis AB, Weithoff G, Hartmann S, Tiedemann R (2019) Within species expressed genetic variability and gene expression response to different temperatures in the rotifer Brachionus calyciflorus sensu stricto. PLoS ONE 14(9): e0223134. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223134
  • Molecular identification of late and terminal Pleistocene Equus ovodovi from northeastern China. Yuan JX, Hou XD, Barlow A, Preick M, Taron UH, Alberti F, Basler N, Deng T, Lai XL, Hofreiter M, Sheng GL. PLoS One. 2019 May 16;14(5):e0216883. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0216883. eCollection 2019.
  • Sommer RS, Hofreiter M, Krüger F, Siemers BM, Paijmans JLA, Li C, Geige MF (2019) Preliminary results on the molecular study of fish-eating by ‘trawling Myotis’ bat species in Europe. Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung. doi.org/10.26049/vz69-1-2019-03
  • Barlow A, Hofreiter M, Knapp M (2019) Cave bears and ancient DNA: a mutually beneficial relationship. In Berichte der Geologischen Bundesanstalt Nr. 132, pages 33-45. Festschrift zum 80. Geburtstag von emer. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Mag. Gernot Rabeder. ISSN: 1017-8880
  • Paleogenome Reveals Genetic Contribution of Extinct Giant Panda to Extant Populations. Sheng GL, Basler N, Ji XP, Paijmans JLA, Alberti F, Preick M, Hartmann S, Westbury MV, Yuan JX, Jablonski NG, Xenikoudakis G, Hou XD, Xiao B, Liu JH, Hofreiter M, Lai XL, Barlow A. Curr Biol. 2019 May 20;29(10):1695-1700.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.04.021. Epub 2019 May 9.
  • Pavel Sroka 1 , Roman J. Godunko 1,2 , Sereina Rutschmann 3,4 , Kamila B. Angeli 5,6 ,Frederico F. Salles 7 , Jean-Luc Gattolliat 8,9 A new species of Bungona in Turkey (Ephemeroptera, Baetidae): an unexpected biogeographic pattern within a pantropical complex of mayflies. Zoosyst. Evol. 95 (1) 2019, 1–13  |  DOI 10.3897/zse.95.29487
  • Henneberger K., Barlow A., Paijmans J.L.A. (2019) Double-Stranded Library Preparation for Ancient and Other Degraded Samples. In: Shapiro B., Barlow A., Heintzman P., Hofreiter M., Paijmans J., Soares A. (eds) Ancient DNA. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1963. Humana Press, New York, NY. doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9176-1_8
  • Paijmans JLA, González-Fortes G, Förster D (2019) Application of solid-state capture for the retrieval of small-to-medium sized target loci from ancient DNA. In Ancient DNA: methods and protocols. Second Edition. New York: Humana Press. doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9176-1_14
  • González Fortes G., Paijmans J.L.A. (2019) Whole-Genome Capture of Ancient DNA Using Homemade Baits. In: Shapiro B., Barlow A., Heintzman P., Hofreiter M., Paijmans J., Soares A. (eds) Ancient DNA. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1963. Humana Press, New York, NY. doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9176-1_11
  • Breedveld, M. C., Folkertsma, R., & Eccard, J. A. (2019). Rodent mothers increase vigilance behaviour when facing infanticide risk. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 12054. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-48459-9
  • Tracking Five Millennia of Horse Management with Extensive Ancient Genome Time Series. Fages A, Hanghøj K, Khan N, Gaunitz C, Seguin-Orlando A, Leonardi M, McCrory Constantz C, Gamba C, Al-Rasheid KAS, Albizuri S, Alfarhan AH, Allentoft M, Alquraishi S, Anthony D, Baimukhanov N, Barrett JH, Bayarsaikhan J, Benecke N, Bernáldez-Sánchez E, Berrocal-Rangel L, Biglari F, Boessenkool S, Boldgiv B, Brem G, Brown D, Burger J, Crubézy E, Daugnora L, Davoudi H, de Barros Damgaard P, de Los Ángeles de Chorro Y de Villa-Ceballos M, Deschler-Erb S, Detry C, Dill N, do Mar Oom M, Dohr A, Ellingvåg S, Erdenebaatar D, Fathi H, Felkel S, Fernández-Rodríguez C, García-Viñas E, Germonpré M, Granado JD, Hallsson JH, Hemmer H, Hofreiter M, Kasparov A, Khasanov M, Khazaeli R, Kosintsev P, Kristiansen K, Kubatbek T, Kuderna L, Kuznetsov P, Laleh H, Leonard JA, Lhuillier J, Liesau von Lettow-Vorbeck C, Logvin A, Lõugas L, Ludwig A, Luis C, Arruda AM, Marques-Bonet T, Matoso Silva R, Merz V, Mijiddorj E, Miller BK, Monchalov O, Mohaseb FA, Morales A, Nieto-Espinet A, Nistelberger H, Onar V, Pálsdóttir AH, Pitulko V, Pitskhelauri K, Pruvost M, Rajic Sikanjic P, Rapan Papeša A, Roslyakova N, Sardari A, Sauer E, Schafberg R, Scheu A, Schibler J, Schlumbaum A, Serrand N, Serres-Armero A, Shapiro B, Sheikhi Seno S, Shevnina I, Shidrang S, Southon J, Star B, Sykes N, Taheri K, Taylor W, Teegen WR, Trbojević Vukičević T, Trixl S, Tumen D, Undrakhbold S, Usmanova E, Vahdati A, Valenzuela-Lamas S, Viegas C, Wallner B, Weinstock J, Zaibert V, Clavel B, Lepetz S, Mashkour M, Helgason A, Stefánsson K, Barrey E, Willerslev E, Outram AK, Librado P, Orlando L. Cell. 2019 May 30;177(6):1419-1435.e31. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.03.049. Epub 2019 May 2.
  • Molecular insights into an ancient form of Paget’s disease of bone. Barry Shaw, Carla L. Burrell, View ORCID ProfileDarrell Green, Ana Navarro-Martinez, Daniel Scott, Anna Daroszewska, Rob van ’t Hof, Lynn Smith, Frank Hargrave, Sharad Mistry, Andrew Bottrill, Benedikt M. Kessler, Roman Fischer, View ORCID ProfileArchana Singh, Tamas Dalmay, William D. Fraser, Kirstin Henneberger, Turi King, Silvia Gonzalez, and Robert Layfield. PNAS May 21, 2019 116 (21) 10463-10472; first published April 29, 2019; doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1820556116
  • A western route of prehistoric human migration from Africa into the Iberian Peninsula. González-Fortes G, Tassi F, Trucchi E, Henneberger K, Paijmans JLA, Díez-Del-Molino D, Schroeder H, Susca RR, Barroso-Ruíz C, Bermudez FJ, Barroso-Medina C, Bettencourt AMS, Sampaio HA, Grandal-d'Anglade A, Salas A, de Lombera-Hermida A, Fabregas Valcarce R, Vaquero M, Alonso S, Lozano M, Rodríguez-Alvarez XP, Fernández-Rodríguez C, Manica A, Hofreiter M, Barbujani G. Proc Biol Sci. 2019 Jan 30;286(1895):20182288. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2018.2288.
  • Emergence of a Chimeric Globin Pseudogene and Increased Hemoglobin Oxygen Affinity Underlie the Evolution of Aquatic Specializations in Sirenia. Signore AV, Paijmans JLA, Hofreiter M, Fago A, Weber RE, Springer MS, Campbell KL. Mol Biol Evol. 2019 Jun 1;36(6):1134-1147. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msz044.

2018

  • Historical biogeography of the leopard (Panthera pardus) and its extinct Eurasian populations. Paijmans JLA, Barlow A, Förster DW, Henneberger K, Meyer M, Nickel B, Nagel D, Worsøe Havmøller R, Baryshnikov GF, Joger U, Rosendahl W, Hofreiter M. BMC Evol Biol. 2018 Oct 23;18(1):156. doi: 10.1186/s12862-018-1268-0.
  • Once lost, twice found: Combined analysis of ancient giantpanda sequences characterises extinct clade Axel Barlow1|Gui-Lian Sheng2|Xu-Long Lai2|Michael Hofreiter1|Johanna L.A. Paijmans1 Journal of Biogeography. 2019;46:251– 253. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.13486. Published online 5th December 2018
  • Targeted resequencing of coding DNA sequences for SNP discovery in nonmodel species. Förster DW, Bull JK, Lenz D, Autenrieth M, Paijmans JLA, Kraus RHS, Nowak C, Bayerl H, Kuehn R, Saveljev AP, Sindičić M, Hofreiter M, Schmidt K, Fickel J. Mol Ecol Resour. 2018 Nov;18(6):1356-1373. doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.12924. Epub 2018 Jul 30.
  • The complete mitochondrial genome of the common vole, Microtus arvalis (Rodentia: Arvicolinae). Folkertsma R, Westbury MV, Eccard JA, Hofreiter M. Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2018 Apr 4;3(1):446-447. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2018.1457994.
  • Integration of nuclear and mitochondrial gene sequences and morphology reveals unexpected diversity in the forest cobra (Naja melanoleuca) species complex in Central and West Africa (Serpentes: Elapidae) WOLFGANG WÜSTER1,11, LAURENT CHIRIO2 , JEAN-FRANÇOIS TRAPE3 , IVAN INEICH4 , KATE JACKSON5 , ELI GREENBAUM6 , CESAR BARRON6 , CHIFUNDERA KUSAMBA7 , ZOLTÁN T. NAGY8 , RICHARD STOREY1 , CARA HALL1 , CATHARINE E. WÜSTER1 , AXEL BARLOW1,9 & DONALD G. BROADLEY10† Zootaxa 4455 (1): 068–098, DOI: doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4455.1.3
  • Eccard, J. A., Reil, D., Folkertsma, R., & Schirmer, A. (2018). The scent of infanticide risk? Behavioural allocation to current and future reproduction in response to mating opportunity and familiarity with intruder. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 72(11), 175. doi:10.1007/s00265-018-2585-4
  • Alberti, F., Gonzalez, J., Paijmans, J.L.A., Basler, N., Preick, M., Henneberger, K., Trinks, A., Rabeder, G., Conard, N.J., Münzel, S.C., Joger, U., Fritsch, G., Hildebrandt, T., Hofreiter, M. and Barlow, A. (2018)Optimized DNA sampling of ancient bones using Computed Tomography scans. Mol Ecol Resour, Volume18, Issue6 November 2018 Pages 1196-1208 published online 7th June 2018, doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.12911.
  • JANA A. ECCARD, INGO SCHEFFLER, STEFFEN FRANKE, JULIA HOFFMANN 2018 Off-grid: solar powered LED illumination impacts epigeal arthropods. Insect Conservation and Diversity (2018) 11, 600–607 doi: 10.1111/icad.12303, published online 06 June 2018
  • High‐quality whole‐genome sequence of an abundant Holarctic odontocete, the harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) Marijke Autenrieth  Stefanie Hartmann  Ljerka Lah  Anna Roos  Alice B. Dennis  Ralph Tiedemann Mol Ecol Resour. 2018;18:1469–1481First published: 23 July 2018 doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.12932
  • Multilocus phylogeny, species age and biogeography of the Lesser Antillean anoles. Roger S. Thorpe, Axel Barlow, Yann Surget-Groba, Anita Malhotra Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution Volume 127, October 2018, Pages 682-695 doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2018.06.014
  • Taron UH, Lell M, Barlow A, Paijmans JLA (2018) Testing of Alignment Parameters for Ancient Samples: Evaluating and optimising mapping parameters for ancient samples using the TAPAS tool. Genes 9, 157. doi.org/10.3390/genes9030157
  • Barlow, A., Cahill, J.A., Hartmann, S., Theunert, C., Xenikoudakis, G., Fortes, G.G., Paijmans, J.L.A., Rabeder, G., Frischauf, C., Grandal-d'Anglade, A., García-Vázquez, A., Murtskhvaladze, M., Saarma, U., Anijalg, P., Skrbinšek, T., Bertorelle, G., Gasparian, B., Bar-Oz, G., Pinhasi, R., Slatkin, M., Dalén, L., Shapiro, B. and Hofreiter, M. (2018) Partial genomic survival of cave bears in living brown bears. Nature Ecology and Evolution, DOI: 10.1038/s41559-018-0654-8.
  • Alberti, F., Gonzalez, J., Paijmans, J.L.A., Basler, N., Preick, M., Henneberger, K., Trinks, A., Rabeder, G., Conard, N.J., Münzel, S.C., Joger, U., Fritsch, G., Hildebrandt, T., Hofreiter, M. and Barlow, A. (2018)Optimized DNA sampling of ancient bones using Computed Tomography scans. Mol Ecol Resour, published online 7th June 2018, doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.12911.
  • Beermann, J., Westbury, M.V., Hofreiter, M., Hilgers, L., Deister, F., Neumann, H. and Raupach, M.J. (2018) Cryptic species in a well-known habitat: applying taxonomics to the amphipod genus Epimeria (Crustacea, Peracarida). Sci Rep, 8 (1), 6893 (doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-25225-x).
  • Grau, J.H., Hackl, T., Koepfli, K.P. and Hofreiter, M. (2018) Improving draft genome contiguity with reference-derived in silico mate-pair libraries. Gigascience, 7 (5) (published online 21st April 2018, doi: 10.1093/gigascience/giy029).
  • Wutke, S., Sandoval-Castellanos, E., Benecke, N., Döhle, H.J., Friederich, S., Gonzalez, J., Hofreiter, M., Lõugas, L., Magnell, O., Malaspinas, A.S., Morales-Muñiz, A., Orlando, L., Reissmann, M., Trinks, A. and Ludwig, A. (2018) Decline of genetic diversity in ancient domestic stallions in Europe. Sci Adv 4 (4), eaap9691 (published online 18th April 2018, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aap9691, eCollection 2018 April).
  • Hilgers, L., Hartmann, S., Hofreiter, M. and von Rintelen, T. (2018) Novel genes, ancient genes, and gene co-option contributed to the genetic basis of the radula, a molluscan innovation. Mol Biol Evol, 35 (7), 1638-1652 (published online 17th April 2018. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msy052).
  • Sheng, G.L., Barlow, A., Cooper, A., Hou, X.D., Ji, X.P., Jablonski, N.G., Zhong, B.J., Liu, H., Flynn, L.J., Yuan, J.X., Wang, L.R., Basler, N., Westbury, M.V., Hofreiter, M. and Lai, X.L. (2018) Ancient DNA from Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) of South-Western China Reveals Genetic Diversity Loss during the Holocene. Genes (Basel), 9 (4), E198 (doi: 10.3390/genes9040198).
  • Autenrieth M, Hartmann S, Lah L, Roos A, Dennis AB, Tiedemann R. High‐quality whole‐genome sequence of an abundant Holarctic odontocete, the harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena). Mol Ecol Resour. 2018;00:1–13. doi:10.1111/1755-0998.12932
  • Westbury, M.V., Hartmann, S., Barlow, A., Wiesel, I., Leo, V., Welch, R., Parker, D.M., Sicks, F., Ludwig, A., Dalén, L. and Hofreiter, M. (2018) Extended and continuous decline in effective population size results in low genomic diversity in the world's rarest hyena species, the brown hyena. Mol Biol Evol, published online 8th March 2018 doi: 10.1093/molbev/msy037.
  • Palkopoulou, E., Lipson, M., Mallick, S., Nielsen, S., Rohland, N., Baleka, S., Karpinski, E., Ivancevic, A.M., To, T.H., Kortschak, R.D., Raison, J.M., Qu, Z., Chin, T.J., Alt, K.W., Claesson, S., Dalén, L., MacPhee, R.D.E., Meller, H., Roca, A.L., Ryder, O.A., Heiman, D., Young, S., Breen, M., Williams, C., Aken, B.L., Ruffier, M., Karlsson, E., Johnson, J., Di Palma, F., Alfoldi, J., Adelson, D.L., Mailund, T., Munch, K., Lindblad-Toh, K., Hofreiter, M., Poinar, H. and Reich, D. (2018) A comprehensive genomic history of extinct and living elephants. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 115 (11), E2566-E2574 (published online 26th February 2018 doi: 10.1073/pnas.1720554115).
  • Gaunitz, C., Fages, A., Hanghøj, K., Albrechtsen, A., Khan, N., Schubert, M., Seguin-Orlando, A., Owens, I.J., Felkel, S., Bignon-Lau, O., de Barros Damgaard, P., Mittnik, A., Mohaseb, A.F., Davoudi, H., Alquraishi, S., Alfarhan, A.H., Al-Rasheid, K.A.S., Crubézy, E., Benecke, N., Olsen, S., Brown, D., Anthony, D., Massy, K., Pitulko, V., Kasparov, A., Brem, G., Hofreiter, M., Mukhtarova, G., Baimukhanov, N., Lõugas, L., Onar, V., Stockhammer, P.W., Krause, J., Boldgiv, B., Undrakhbold, S., Erdenebaatar, D., Lepetz, S., Mashkour, M., Ludwig, A., Wallner, B., Merz, V., Merz, I., Zaibert, V., Willerslev, E., Librado, P., Outram, A.K. and Orlando, L. (2018) Ancient genomes revisit the ancestry of domestic and Przewalski's horses. Science, published online 22nd February 2018 (doi: 10.1126/science.aao3297).

2017

  • Basler, N., Xenikoudakis, G., Westbury, M., Song, L., Sheng, G., Barlow, A., (2017) Reduction of the contaminant fraction of DNA obtained from an ancient giant panda bone (doi: 10.1186/s13104-017-3061-3)BMC
  • Paijmans, J.L.A., Barnett, R., Gilbert, M.T.P., Zepeda-Mendoza, M.L., Reumer, J.W.F., de Vos, J., Zazula, G., Nagel, D., Baryshnikov, G.F., Leonard, J.A., Rohland, N., Westbury, M.V., Barlow, A. and Hofreiter, M. (2017) Evolutionary History of Saber-Toothed Cats Based on Ancient Mitogenomics. Curr Biol 27 (21), 3330-3336.e5. (published online 19th October 2017, doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.09.033.).
  • Casas-Marce, M., Marmesat, E., Soriano, L., Martínez-Cruz, B., Lucena, M., Nocete, F., Rodríguez-Hidalgo, A., Canals, A., Nadal, J., Detry, C., Bernáldez-Sánchez, E., Fernández-Rodríguez, C., Pérez-Ripoll, M., Stiller, M., Hofreiter, M., Rodríguez, A., Revilla, E., Delibes, M. and Godoy, J.A. (2017) Spatio-temporal dynamics of genetic variation in the Iberian lynx along its path to extinction reconstructed with ancient DNA. Mol Biol Evol 34 (11), 2893-2907 (published online 29th August 2017, doi: 10.1093/molbev/msx222).
  • Claesson, S., Baleka, S., Hofreiter, M. and  Widga, C. (2017)  The contribution of Late Pleistocene megafauna finds to submerged archaeology and the interpretation of ancient coastal landscapes. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 15, 290-298.
  • Xiang, H., Gao, J., Cai, D., Luo, Y., Yu, B., Liu, L., Liu, R., Zhou, H., Chen, X., Dun, W., Wang, X., Hofreiter, M. and Zhao X. (2017) Origin and dispersal of early domestic pigs in northern China. Sci Rep 7 (1), 5602 (published online 10th August 2017, doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-06056-8.
  • Gaudry, M.J., Jastroch, M., Treberg, J.R., Hofreiter, M., Paijmans, J.L.A., Starrett, J., Wales, N., Signore, A.V., Springer, M.S. and Campbell, K.L. (2017) Inactivation of thermogenic UCP1 as a historical contingency in multiple placental mammal clades. Science Advances, 3 (7), e1602878 (published online 12th July 2017, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1602878).
  • Westbury, M. Baleka, S., Barlow, A., Hartmann, S., Paijmans, J.L.A., Kramarz, A., Forasiepi, A.M., Bond, M., Gelfo, J.N., Reguero, M.A., Mendoza, P.L., Taglioretti, M., Scaglia, F., Rinderknecht, A., Jones, W., Mena, F., Billet, G., de Muizon, C., Aguilar, J.L., MacPhee, R.D.E. and Hofreiter, M. (2017) A mitogenomic timetree for Darwin’s enigmatic South American mammal Macrauchenia patachonica. Nature Communications, 8, 15951 (published online 17th June 2017, doi: 10.1038/ncomms15951).
  • Thomas, J.E., Carvalho, G.R., Haile, J., Martin, M.D., Castruita, J.A.S., Niemann, J., Sinding, M.S., Sandoval-Velasco, M., Rawlence, N.J., Fuller, E., Fjeldså, J., Hofreiter, M., Stewart, J.R., Gilbert, M.T.P. and Knapp, M. (2017) An ‛Aukward' Tale: A Genetic Approach to Discover the Whereabouts of the Last Great Auks. Genes (Basel), 8 (6), E164 (published online 15th June 2017, doi: 10.3390/genes8060164).
  • Westbury, M., Dalerum, F., Norén, K. and Hofreiter, M. (2017) Complete mitochondrial genome of a bat-eared fox (Otocyon megalotis), along with phylogenetic considerations, Mitochondrial DNA Part B, 2 (1), 298-299 (DOI: 10.1080/23802359.2017.1331325).
  • Meyer, M., Palkopoulou, E., Baleka, S., Stiller, M., Penkman, K.E.H., Alt, K.W., Ishida, Y., Mania, D., Mallick, S., Meijer, T., Meller, H., Nagel, S., Nickel, B., Ostritz, S., Rohland, N., Schauer, K., Schüler, T., Roca, A.L., Reich, D., Shapiro, B. and Hofreiter, M. (2017) Palaeogenomes of Eurasian straight-tusked elephants challenge the current view of elephant evolution. Elife, 6, e25413 (published online 6th June 2017, doi: 10.7554/eLife.25413).
  • González-Fortes, G., Jones, E.R., Lightfoot, E., Bonsall, C., Lazar, C., Grandal-d'Anglade, A., Garralda, M.D., Drak, L., Siska, V., Simalcsik, A., Boroneanţ, A., Vidal Romaní, J.R., Vaqueiro Rodríguez, M., Arias, P., Pinhasi, R., Manica, A. and Hofreiter, M. (2017) Paleogenomic Evidence for Multi-generational Mixing between Neolithic Farmers and Mesolithic Hunter-Gatherers in the Lower Danube Basin. Curr Biol, 27 (12), 1801-1810 (published online 24th May 2017, doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.05.023).
  • Elsner, J., Hofreiter, M., Schibler, J. and Schlumbaum, A. (2017) Ancient mtDNA diversity reveals specific population development of wild horses in Switzerland after the Last Glacial Maximum. PLoS One, 12 (5), e0177458 (published online 24th May 2017, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0177458).
  • Librado, P., Gamba, C., Gaunitz, C., Der Sarkissian, C., Pruvost, M., Albrechtsen, A., Fages, A., Khan, N., Schubert, M., Jagannathan, V., Serres-Armero, A., Kuderna, L.F.K., Povolotskaya, I.S., Seguin-Orlando, A., Lepetz, S., Neuditschko, M., Thèves, C., Alquraishi, S., Alfarhan, A.H., Al-Rasheid, K., Rieder, S., Samashev, Z., Francfort, H.P., Benecke, N., Hofreiter, M., Ludwig, A., Keyser, C., Marques-Bonet, T., Ludes, B., Crubézy, E., Leeb, T., Willerslev, E. and Orlando, L. (2017) Ancient genomic changes associated with domestication of the horse. Science, 356 (6336), 442-445 (published online 28th April 2017, doi: 10.1126/science.aam5298).
  • Dolotovskaya, S., Bordallo, J.T., Haus, T., Noll, A., Hofreiter, M., Zinner, D. and Roos, C. (2017) Comparing mitogenomic timetrees for two African savannah primate genera (Chlorocebus and Papio). Zool J Linn Soc, 181 (2), 471-483 (published online 27th April 2017, doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx001).
  • Chang, D., Knapp, M., Enk, J., Lippold, S., Kircher, M., Lister, A., MacPhee, R.D., Widga, C., Czechowski, P., Sommer, R., Hodges, E., Stümpel, N., Barnes, I., Dalén, L., Derevianko, A., Germonpré, M., Hillebrand-Voiculescu, A., Constantin, S., Kuznetsova, T., Mol, D., Rathgeber, T., Rosendahl, W., Tikhonov, A.N., Willerslev, E., Hannon, G., Lalueza-Fox, C., Joger, U., Poinar, H., Hofreiter, M. and Shapiro, B. (2017) The evolutionary and phylogeographic history of woolly mammoths: a comprehensive mitogenomic analysis. Sci Rep, 7, 44585 (published online 22nd March 2017, doi: 10.1038/srep44585).
  • Siska, V., Jones, E.R., Jeon, S., Bhak, Y., Kim, H., Cho, Y.S., Kim, H., Lee, K., E. Veselovskaya5, E., T. Balueva, T., Gallego-Llorente, M., Hofreiter, M., Bradley, D. G., Eriksson, A., Pinhasi, R., Bhak, J. and Manica, A. (2016) Genome-wide data from two early Neolithic East Asian individuals dating to 7,700 years ago. Science Advances, 3 (2), e1601877 (published online 1st Feb 2017, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1601877).
  • Kehlmaier, C., Barlow, A., Hastings, A.K., Vamberger, M., Paijmans, J.L., Steadman, D.W., Albury, N.A., Franz, R., Hofreiter, M. and Fritz, U. (2017) Tropical ancient DNA reveals relationships of the extinct Bahamian giant tortoise Chelonoidis alburyorum. Proc Biol Sci, 284 (1846), 20162235 (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2016.2235).

2016

  • Fortes, G.G., Grandal-d'Anglade, A., Kolbe, B., Fernandes, D., Meleg, I.N., García-Vázquez, A., Pinto-Llona, A.C., Constantin, S., de Torres, T.J., Ortiz, J.E., Frischauf, C., Rabeder, G., Hofreiter, M and Barlow, A. (2016) Ancient DNA reveals differences in behaviour and sociality between brown bears and extinct cave bears. Molecular Ecology, 25 (19), 4907-4918 (published online 10th August 2016, doi: 10.1111/mec.13800).
  • Wutke, S., Andersson, L., Benecke, N., Sandoval-Castellanos, E., Gonzalez, J., Hallsson, J.H., Lõugas, L., Magnell, O., Morales-Muniz, A., Orlando, L., Pálsdóttir, A.H., Reissmann, M., Muñoz-Rodríguez, M.B., Ruttkay, M., Trinks, A., Hofreiter, M. and Ludwig A. (2016) The origin of ambling horses. Current Biology, 26 (15), R697-9 (published online 8th August 2016, doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.07.001).
  • 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. and Pinhasi R. (2016) The genetics of an early Neolithic pastoralist from the Zagros, Iran. Scientific Reports, 6, 31,326, published online 9th August 2016, doi: 10.1038/srep31326.
  • Speller, C., van den Hurk, Y., Charpentier, A., Rodrigues, A., Gardeisen, A., Wilkens, B., McGrath, K., Rowsell, K., Spindler, L., Collins, M. and Hofreiter M. (2016) Barcoding the largest animals on Earth: ongoing challenges and molecular solutions in the taxonomic identification of ancient cetaceans. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci., 371 (1702), pii: 20150332 (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0332).
  • Elsner, J., Deschler-Erb, S., Stopp, B., Hofreiter, M., Schibler, J. and Schlumbaum, A. (2016) Mitochondrial d-loop variation, coat colour and sex identification of Late Iron Age horses in Switzerland. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 6, 386–396 (doi: dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.03.007).
  • Mohandesan, E., Speller, C.F., Peters, J., Uerpmann, H.P., Uerpmann, M., De Cupere, B., Hofreiter, M. and Burger, P.A. (2016) Combined hybridization capture and shotgun sequencing for ancient DNA analysis of extinct wild and domestic dromedary camel. Molecular Ecology Resources, 17 (2), 300-313. (published online 11th June 2016, doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.12551).
  • Hilgers, L., Grau, J. H., Pfaender, J., & von Rintelen, T. (2016). The complete mitochondrial genome of the viviparous freshwater snail Tylomelania sarasinorum (Caenogastropoda: Cerithioidea). Mitochondrial DNA Part B, 1 (1), 330-331 (doi: 10.1080/23802359.2016.1172046).
  • Almathen, F., Charruau, P., Mohandesan, E., Mwacharo, J.M., Orozco-terWengel, P., Pitt, D., Abdussamad, A.M., Uerpmann, M., Uerpmann, H.P., De Cupere, B., Magee, P., Alnaqeeb, M.A., Salim, B., Raziq, A., Dessie, T., Abdelhadi, O.M., Banabazi, M.H., Al-Eknah, M., Walzer, C., Faye, B., Hofreiter, M., Peters, J., Hanotte, O., Burger, P.A. (2016) Ancient and modern DNA reveal dynamics of domestication and cross-continental dispersal of the dromedary. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 113 (24), 6707-6712 (published online 9th May 2016, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1519508113).
  • Rainford, J.L., Hofreiter, M. and Mayhew, P.J. (2016) Phylogenetic analyses suggest that diversification and body size evolution are independent in insects. BMC Evol Biol, 16, 8 (doi: 10.1186/s12862-015-0570-3).

2015

  • Jones, E.R., Gonzalez-Fortes, G., Connell, S., Siska, V., Eriksson, A., Martiniano, R., McLaughlin, R.L., Gallego-Llorente, M., Cassidy, L.M., Gamba, C., Meshveliani, T., Bar-Yosef, O., Müller, W., Belfer-Cohen, A., Matskevich, Z., Jakeli, N., Higham, T.F., Currat, M., Lordkipanidze, D., Hofreiter, M., Manica, A., Pinhasi, R. and Bradley, D.G. (2016) Upper Palaeolithic genomes reveal deep roots of modern Eurasians. Nat Commun 6, 8912 (doi: 10.1038/ncomms9912).
  • Gallego-Llorente, M., 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. and Manica, A. (2015) Ancient Ethiopian genome reveals extensive Eurasian admixture throughout the African continent. Science 350 (6262), 820-822 (published online 8th Oct 2015; doi: 10.1126/science.aad2879).
  • Li, C., Corrigan, S., Yang, L., Straube, N., Harris, M., Hofreiter, M., White, W. and Naylor, G.J.P. (2015) DNA capture reveals transoceanic gene flow in endangered river sharks. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A, 112 (43), 13,302-13,307 (published online 12th Oct 2015¸ doi: 10.1073/pnas.1508735112).
  • Hartmann, S., Hasenkamp, N., Mayer, J., Michaux, J., Morand, S., Mazzoni, C.J., Roca, A.L and Greenwood, A.D. (2015) Endogenous murine leukemia retroviral variation across wild European and inbred strains of house mouse. BMC Genomics, 16, 613 (published online 18th August 2015, doi: 10.1186/s12864-015-1766-z).
  • Campbell, K.L. and Hofreiter, M. (2015) Resurrecting phenotypes from ancient DNA sequences: promises and perspectives. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 93 (9), 701-710 (published online 24th July 2015, doi: 10.1139/cjz-2014-0337).
  • Le Duc, D., Renaud, G., Krishnan, A., Almén, M.S., Huynen, L., Prohaska, S.J., Ongyerth, M., Bitarello, B.D., Schiöth, H.B., Hofreiter, M., Stadler, P.F., Prüfer, K., Lambert, D., Kelso, J. and Schöneberg, T. (2015) Kiwi genome provides insights into evolution of a nocturnal lifestyle. Genome Biology, 16, 147 (published online 23rd July 2015, doi: 10.1186/s13059-015-0711-4).
  • Pinhasi, R., Fernandes, D., Sirak, K., Novak, M., Connell, S., Alpaslan-Roodenberg, S., Gerritsen, F., Moiseyev, V., Gromov, A., Raczky, P., Anders, A., Pietrusewsky, M., Rollefson, G., Jovanovic, M., Trinhhoang, H., Bar-Oz, G., Oxenham, M., Matsumura, H. and Hofreiter, M. (2015) Optimal Ancient DNA Yields from the Inner Ear Part of the Human Petrous Bone. PLoS One, 10 (6), e0129102 (published online 18th June 2015, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0129102 eCollection 2015).
  • Xenikoudakis, G., Ersmark, E., Tison, J.L., Waits, L., Kindberg, J., Swenson, J.E. and Dalén, L. (2015) Consequences of a demographic bottleneck on genetic structure and variation in the Scandinavian brown bear. Mol Ecol 24 (13), 3441-54 (published online 4th June 2015, doi: 10.1111/mec.13239).
  • Springer, M.S., Signore, A.V., Paijmans, J.L., Vélez-Juarbe, J., Domning, D.P., Bauer, C.E., He, K., Crerar, L., Campos, P.F., Murphy, W.J., Meredith, R.W., Gatesy, J., Willerslev, E., MacPhee, R.D., Hofreiter, M. and Campbell K.L.(2015) Interordinal gene capture, the phylogenetic position of Steller's sea cow based on molecular and morphological data, and the macroevolutionary history of Sirenia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 91, 178-193 (published online 4th June 2015, doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.05.022).
  • Paijmans, J.L.A., Fickel, J., Courtiol, A., Hofreiter, M. and Förster, D.W. (2015) Impact of enrichment conditions on cross-species capture of fresh and degraded DNA. Molecular Ecology Resources, 16 (1), 42-55 (published online 27th April 2015, doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.12420).
  • Zancolli, G., Baker, T.G., Barlow, A., Bradley, R.K., Calvete, J.J., Carter, K.C., de Jager, K., Owens, J.B., Price, J.F., Sanz, L., Scholes-Higham, A., Shier, L., Wood, L., Wüster, C.E. and Wüster, W. (2016) Is hybridization a source of adaptive venom variation in rattlesnakes? A test, using a Crotalus scutulatus × viridis hybrid zone in southwestern New Mexico. Toxins, 8 (6), 188. (doi: 10.3390/toxins8060188).
  • Alter, S. E., Meyer M., Post, K., Czechowski, P., Gravlund, P., Gaines, C., Rosenbaum, H., Kaschner, K., Turvey, S.T., van der Plicht, J., Shapiro, B. and Hofreiter, M. (2015) Climate impacts on transocean dispersal and habitat in gray whales from the Pleistocene to 2100. Molecular Ecology, 24 (7), 1510-1522 (published online 9th March 2015, doi: 10.1111/mec.13121).
  • Knapp, M., Lalueza-Fox, C. and Hofreiter, M. (2015) Re-inventing ancient human DNA. Investigative Genetics, 6, 4 (doi: 10.1186/s13323-015-0020-4, eCollection 2015).
  • Welcker, F., Collins, M.J., Thomas, J.A., Wadsley, M., Brace, B., Cappellini, E., Turvey, S.T., Reguero, M., Gelfo, J.N., Kramarz, A.,  Burger, J., Thomas-Oates, J., Ashford, D.A., Ashton, P., Rowsell, K., Porter, D.M., Kessler, B., Fisher, R., Baessmann, C., Kaspar, S., Olsen, J., Kiley, P., Elliot, J., Kelstrup, C., Mullin, V., Hofreiter, M., Willerslev, E., Hublin, J.-J., Orlando, L., Barnes I. & MacPhee, R.D.E. (2015)  Ancient proteins resolve the evolutionary history of Darwin's South American ungulates. Nature, 522 (7554), 81-84 (published online 18th March 2015, doi: 10.1038/nature14249).
  • Thorpe, R.S., Barlow, A., Malhotra, A. and Surget-Groba, Y. (2015) Widespread parallel population adaptation to climate variation across a radiation: implications for adaptation to climate change. Mol Ecol 24 (5), 1019-30 (published online 16th February 2015, doi: 10.1111/mec.13093).
  • Xiang, H., Gao, J., Yu, B., Hofreiter, M. and Zhao, X. (2015) Reply to Peters et al.: Further discussions confirm early Holocene chicken domestication in northern China. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A, 112 (19), E2416 (published online 17th April 2015; doi: 10.1073/pnas.1503956112).
  • Germonpré, M., Sablin, M.V., Lázni?ková-Galetová, M., Després, V., Stevens, R.E., Stiller, M., and Hofreiter, M. (2015) Palaeolithic dogs and Pleistocene wolves revisited: a reply to Morey (2014). Journal of Archaeological Science, 54, 210-216 (DOI:10.1016/j.jas.2014.11.035).
  • Xiang, H., Hofreiter, M. and Zhao, X. (2015) Reply to Peng et al.: Archaeological contexts should not be ignored for early chicken domestication. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A, 112 (16), E1972–E1973 (20th March 2015; doi: 10.1073/pnas.1502207112).
  • Hagelberg, E., Hofreiter M. and Keyser, C. (2015) Ancient DNA: the first three decades. Phil Trans R Soc B, 370 (1660), 20130371 (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0371).
  • Ludwig, A., Reissmann, M., Benecke, N., Bellone, R., Sandoval-Castellanos, E., Cieslak, M., Fortes, G.G., Morales-Muñiz, A., Hofreiter, M. and Pruvost, M. (2015) Twenty-five thousand years of fluctuating selection on leopard complex spotting and congenital night blindness in horses. Phil Trans R Soc B, 370 (1660), 20130386 (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0386).
  • Teasdale, M.D., van Doorn, N.L., Fiddyment, S., Webb, C., O'Connor, T., Hofreiter, M., Collins, M.J. and Bradley, D.G. (2015) Paging through history: parchment as a reservoir of ancient DNA for next generation sequencing. Phil Trans R Soc B, 370 (1660), 20130379 (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0379).
  • Elsner, J., Schibler, J., Hofreiter, M. and Schlumbaum, A. (2015) Burial condition is the most important factor for mtDNA PCR amplification success in Palaeolithic equid remains from the Alpine foreland. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 1-11 (DOI 10.1007/s12520-014-0213-4)


2014

  • Schubert, M., Jónsson, H., Chang, D., Der Sarkissian, C., Ermini, L., Ginolhac, A., Albrechtsen, A., Dupanloup, I., Foucal, A., Petersen, B., Fumagalli, M., Raghavan, M., Seguin-Orlando, A., Korneliussen, T., Velazquez, A.M.V., Stenderup, J., Hoover, C.A., Rubin, C.J., Alfarhan, A.H., Alquraishi, S.A., Al-Rasheid, K.A.S., MacHugh, D.E., Kalbfleish, T., MacLeod, J.N., Rubin, E.M., Sicheritz-Ponten, T., Andersson, L., Hofreiter, M., Marques-Bonet, T., Gilbert, M.T.P., Nielsen, R., Excoffier, L., Willerslev, E., Shapiro, B. and Ludovic Orlando, L. (2014) Prehistoric horse genomes reveal the genetic foundation and cost of domestication.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A, 111 (52), E5661-9 (published online 15th December 2014; doi: 10.1073/pnas.1416991111).
  • Hofreiter, M., Paijmans, J.L.A., Goodchild, H., Speller, C.F., Barlow, A., Fortes, G.G., Thomas, J.A., Ludwig, A. and Collins, M.J. (2014) The future of ancient DNA: Technical advances and conceptual shifts. BioEssays, 37 (3), 284-293 (published online 21st November, doi: 10.1002/bies.201400160).
  • Xiang, H., Yuan, J., Gao, J., Yu, B., Luo, Y., Zhou, H., Cai, D., Zhang, Y., Chen, X., Wang, X., Hofreiter, M. and Zhao, X. (2014) Early Holocene chicken domestication in northern China. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A, 111 (49), 17564-9 (published online 24th November 2014; doi: 10.1073/pnas.1411882111).
  • King, T.E., Gonzalez Fortes, G., Balaresque, P., Thomas, M.G., Balding, D., Maisano Delser, P., Neumann, R., Parson, W., Knapp, M., Walsh, S., Tonasso, L., Holt , J., Kayser, M., Appleby, J., Forster, P., Ekserdjian, D., Hofreiter  M. and Kevin Schürer, K. (2014) Identification of the remains of King Richard III. Nature Communications, 5, 5631 (published online 2nd December; doi: 10.1038/ncomms6631).
  • Rainford, J.L., Hofreiter, M., Nicholson, D.B. and Mayhew, P.J. (2014) Phylogenetic distribution of extant richness suggests metamorphosis is a key innovation driving diversification in insects. PLoS One, 9 (10), e109085 (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0109085).
  • Gamba, C., Jones, E.R., Teasdale, M.D., McLaughlin, R.L., Gonzalez-Fortes, G., Mattiangeli, V., Domboróczki, L., K?vári, I., Pap, I., Anders, A., Whittle, A., Dani, J., Raczky, P., Higham, T.F.G., Hofreiter, M., Bradley, D.G., and Pinhasi, R., (2014) Genome flux and stasis in a five millennium transect of European prehistory. Nature Communications, 5, 5257 (published online 21st Oct 2014; doi: 10.1038/ncomms6257).
  • Mitchell, K.J., Pratt, R.C., Watson, L.N., Gibb, G.C., Llamas, B., Kasper, M., Edson, J., Hopwood, B., Male, D., Armstrong, K., Meyer, M., Hofreiter, M., Austin, J., Donnellan, S.C., Lee, M.S.Y., Phillips, M.J. and Cooper, A. (2014) Molecular phylogeny, biogeography, and habitat preference evolution of marsupials. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 31 (9), 2322-2330 (published online 30th May 2014; doi: 10.1093/molbev/msu176).
  • Huynen, L., Suzuki, T., Ogura, T., Watanabe, Y., Millar, C.D., Hofreiter, M., Smith, C., Mirmoeini, S. and Lambert, D.M. (2014) Reconstruction and in vivo analysis of the extinct tbx5 gene from ancient wingless moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes). BMC Evol Biol, 14, 75 (published online 14th May 2014; doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-14-75).
  • Horn, S., Prost, S., Stiller, M., Makowiecki, D., Kusnetsova, T., Benecke, N., Pucher, E., Hufthammer, A.K., Schouwenburg, C., Shapiro, B. and Hofreiter, M. (2014) Ancient mitochondrial DNA and the genetic history of Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) in Europe. Molecular Ecology, 23, 1717–1729 (published online 12th February 2014; doi: 10.1111/mec.12691).
  • Shapiro, B. and Hofreiter, M. (2014) A paleogenomic perspective on evolution and gene function: New insights from ancient DNA. Science, 343, 1236573-1-7 (published online 24th Jan 2014; doi: 10.1126/science.1236573).
  • Stiller, M., Molak, M., Prost, S., Pacher, M., Rabeder, G., Baryshnikov, G., Rosendahl, W., Münzel, S., Bocherens, H., Grandal-d'Anglade, A., Hilpert, B., Germonpre, M., Stasyk, O., Pinhasi, R., Rohland, N., Mohandesan, E., Ho, S.Y.W., Hofreiter, M. and Knapp, M. (2014) Mitochondrial DNA diversity and evolution of the Pleistocene cave bear complex. Quaternary International, 339-340, 224-231 (published online 5th November 2013; dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.09.023).
  • Schedina, I.M., Pfautsch, S., Hartmann, S., Dolgener, N., Polgar, A., Bianco, P.G., Tiedemann, R. and Ketmaier, V. (2014) Isolation and characterization of eight microsatellite loci in the brook lamprey Lampetra planeri (Petromyzontiformes) using 454 sequence data. Journal of Fish Biology 85 (3), 960-4 (published online 25th July 2014, doi: 10.1111/jfb.12470).
  • Zulawski, M., Schulze, G., Braginets, R., Hartmann, S. and Schulze, W.X. (2014) The Arabidopsis Kinome: phylogeny and evolutionary insights into functional diversification. BMC Genomics 15, 548 (published online 1st July 2014, doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-548).
  • Schedina, I.M., Hartmann, S., Groth, D., Schlupp, I. and Tiedemann, R. (2014) Comparative analysis of the gonadal transcriptomes of the all-female species Poecilia formosa and its maternal ancestor Poecilia mexicana BMC Research Notes 7, 249 (published online 17th April 2014, doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-7-249).
  • Struck, T., Purschke, G., Hösel, C., Bleidorn, C., Paul, C., Hill, N., Tiedemann, R., Selbig, J. and Hartmann, S. (2014) Phylogeny and evolution of Annelida based on novel molecular data. Under revision. Pages 143-158 in Deep Metazoan Phylogeny, De Gruyter.
  • Bleidorn, C., Helm, C., Weigert, A., Eeckhaut, I., Lanterbecq, D., Struck, T., Hartmann, S. and Tiedemann, R. (2014) From morphology to phylogenomics: placing the enigmatic Myzostomida in the tree of life. Pages 161-172 in Deep Metazoan Phylogeny, De Gruyter.
  • Knapp, M. and Hofreiter, M. (2014) Ancient Human DNA: Phylogenetic Applications. In: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE SCIENCES. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester UK. www.els.net [DOI:10.1002/9780470015902.a0005143.pub3].
  • Hofreiter, M. (2014) Ancient DNA. In Oxford Bibliographies in Evolutionary Biology. Editor J. Losos, Oxford University Press, New York, published online 13th January 2014 (DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199941728-0036).
  • Jenkins, D.L., Davis, L.G., Stafford, T.W. Jr., Connolly, T.J., Cummings, L.S., Hofreiter, M., Hockett, B., Jones, G.T., Gibbons, S.C., Raghavan, M., Rasmussen, M., McDonough, K., Luthe, I., O’Grady, P.W., Swisher, M.E., White, F., Yohe, R.M. II, Yost, C. and Eske Willerslev, E. (2014) Geochronology, Archaeological Context, and DNA at the Paisley Caves. In The Paleoamerican Odyssey. Editors K.E. Graf, T. Goebel, and M.R. Waters, Center for the Study of First Americans, College Station, Texas.
  • Fortes, G.G. and Paijmans, J.L.A. (2015) Analysis of whole mitogenomes from ancient samples. Pp 179-195 in Whole Genome Amplification (Volume 1347 of the series Methods in Molecular Biology). Editor T. Kroneis, Humana Press, USA.