Matthias Meyer
Group leader
Abteilung für Evolutionäre Genetik
Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
Telefon: +49 (0) 341 3550 509
E-Mail:
mmeyer@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Curriculum Vitae
Education
| 2009 | PhD (Doctor rerum naturalium) in Biology Evolutionary Genetics Department, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany and Leipzig University, Germany Awarded summa cum laude distinction. |
| 2005 | Diploma in Biochemistry Faculty of Biosciences, Pharmacy and Psychology, Leipzig University, Germany |
Current position
| 2021-present | Max Planck Research Group Leader (W2, tenured) “Advanced DNA sequencing techniques”, Evolutionary Genetics Department, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany Joint Head of the Ancient DNA Core Unit, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany |
Previous positions
| 2012-2021 | Max Planck Research Group Leader “Advanced DNA sequencing techniques” Evolutionary Genetics Department, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany |
| 2009-2012 | Postdoctoral Researcher Evolutionary Genetics Department, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany (PI: Prof. Svante Pääbo) |
| 2009 | Visiting Researcher (3 months) Ion Torrent, Guilford, Connecticut, USA (PI: Dr Jonathan Rothberg) |
| 2005-2009 | Doctoral Researcher Evolutionary Genetics Department, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany (PI: Dr Michael Hofreiter) |
| 2003 | Laboratory Technician (4 months) Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California, USA (PI: Dr Phillip Morin) |
Fellowships/awards/grants
| 2020 – 2021 | Experiment! Grant, Volkswagen Foundation (“Traces in the dirt - searching for ancient human DNA in sediments and soils in the open landscape”) |
| 2015 | DKFZ Grant for sequencing of degraded DNA from FFPE samples in melanoma (with Susanne Horn and Janet Kelso) |
| 2010 | AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize, awarded to the authors of “A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome” (Green et al. 2010, Science 328:710-722) |
| 2005-2009 | Doctoral fellow of the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS), Leipzig School of Human Origins |
Teaching activities
| 2011-present | Yearly lectures for the “International Max Planck Research School, The Leipzig School of Human Origins” (various topics) |
| 2010-2023 | Co-organization and supervision of a yearly two-week lab practical course “Molecular Evolution” (formerly “Molecular Ecology”) for MSc students, Leipzig University, Germany |
| 2010-2018 | Yearly lectures in the series “Molecular Anthropology” for MSc students, Leipzig University (topics: “Ancient DNA” and “Paleogenomics”) |
Supervision of PhD/master students
Graduate students who completed their PhD in my group:
Jesse Dabney (2014), Isabelle Glocke (2018), Petra Korlevic (2018), Mateja Hajdinjak (2018)*, Viviane Slon (2018)*, Lukas Bokelmann (2021), Elena Zavala (2022)
* Winners of the prestigious Otto Hahn Award (Viviane Slon, 2018) and Otto Hahn Medal (Mateja Hajdinjak, 2019) of the Max Planck Society for outstanding scientific achievements
Master students who completed their MSc thesis in my group:
Charlotte Hopfe (MSc 2015), Elena Beirer (MSc 2016), Laurin Lippik (MSc 2018), Vincent Geyer (2021), Hannes Tausend (2024)
Contributions to edited books
Dabney, J. and Meyer, M.: Extraction of Highly Degraded DNA from Ancient Bones and Teeth. In Beth Shapiro et al. (Eds): Ancient DNA. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1963. Humana Press, New York, NY. (2019)
Gansauge, M. T. and Meyer, M.: A Method for Single-Stranded Ancient DNA Library Preparation. In Beth Shapiro et al. (Eds): Ancient DNA. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1963. Humana Press, New York, NY. (2019)
Korlević, P., Meyer, M.: Pretreatment: Removing DNA Contamination from Ancient Bones and Teeth Using Sodium Hypochlorite and Phosphate. In Beth Shapiro et al. (Eds): Ancient DNA. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1963. Humana Press, New York, NY. (2019)
Dabney, J., Meyer, M. and & Pääbo, S.: Ancient DNA damage. In E. C. Friedberg, S. J. Elledge, A. R. Lehmann, T. Lindahl, & M. Muzi-Falconi (Eds.), DNA Repair, Mutagenesis, and Other Responses to DNA Damage: A subject collection from Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology (pp. 19-26). New York: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Pr. (2014)
Knapp, M., Stiller, M. and Meyer, M.: Generating barcoded libraries for multiplex high-throughput sequencing. In B. Shapiro, & M. Hofreiter (Eds.), Ancient DNA (pp. 155-170). New York: Humana Pr. (2012)
Publications
Szymanski, M., Visagie, J., Romagné, F., Meyer, M., & Kelso, J. (2025). Quick analysis of sedimentary ancient DNA using quicksand. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 42(12): msaf305. |
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Dinnis, R., Boulton, J., Chandler, B., Davies, J., French, J. C., Higham, T., Jáuregui, L., Lewis, M., Meyer, M., Schreve, D., Stringer, C., & Proctor, C. (2025). A Middle and Late Devensian sequence from the northern part of Kents Cavern (Devon, UK). Journal of Quaternary Science, 40(6), 925-943. |
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Nagel, S., Zorn, J., Essel, E., & Meyer, M. (2025). Hamilton NGS Star workstation: library indexing using AccuPrime Pfx DNA polymerase, purification and quantification V.1. Protocols.io. |
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Jacobs, Z., Zavala, E. I., Li, B., O’Gorman, K., Shunkov, M. V., Kozlikin, M. B., Derevianko, A. P., Uliyanov, V. A., Goldberg, P., Agadjanian, A. K., Vasiliev, S. K., Brink, F., Peyrégne, S., Slon, V., Pääbo, S., Kelso, J., Meyer, M., & Roberts, R. G. (2025). Pleistocene chronology and history of hominins and fauna at Denisova Cave. Nature Communications, 16: 4738. |
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Nagel, S., Ayinuer-Petri, A., Szymanski, M., Essel, E., & Meyer, M. (2025). Bravo workstation: automated indexing, purification and quantification of DNA libraries V.1. Protocols.io. |
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Sümer, A. P. *., Rougier, H., Villalba-Mouco, V., Huang, Y., Iasi, L. N., Essel, E., Bossoms Mesa, A., Furtwaengler, A., Peyrégne, S., de Filippo, C., Rohrlach, A. B., Pierini, F., Mafessoni, F., Fewlass, H., Zavala, E. I., Mylopotamitaki, D., Bianco, R. A., Schmidt, A., Zorn, J., Nickel, B., Patova, A., Posth, C., Smith, G. M., Ruebens, K., Sinet-Mathiot, V., Stoessel, A., Dietl, H., Orschiedt, J., Kelso, J., Zeberg, H., Bos, K. I., Welker, F., Weiss, M., McPherron, S., Schüler, T., Hublin, J.-J., Velemínský, P., Brůžek, J., Peter, B. M., Meyer, M., Meller, H., Ringbauer, H., Hajdinjak, M., Prüfer, K. *., & Krause, J. *. (2025). Earliest modern human genomes constrain timing of Neanderthal admixture. Nature, 638(8051), 711-717. |
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Nagel, S., Schmidt, A., Nickel, B., Zorn, J., Patova, A., Szymanski, M., Essel, E., & Meyer, M. (2025). Hamilton NGS Star workstation: automated in-solution hybridization capture (MPI-EVA method) V.1. Protocols.io. |
Open AccessNagel, S., Schmidt, A., Ayinuer-Petri, A., Patova, A., Szymanski, M., Essel, E., & Meyer, M. (2024). Bravo workstation: automated single-stranded DNA library preparation (ssDNA2.0) V.1. Protocols.io. |
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Smith, G. M., Ruebens, K., Zavala, E. I., Sinet-Mathiot, V., Fewlass, H., Pederzani, S., Jaouen, K., Mylopotamitaki, D., Britton, K., Rougier, H., Stahlschmidt, M., Meyer, M., Meller, H., Dietl, H., Orschiedt, J., Krause, J., Schüler, T., McPherron, S. P., Weiss, M., Hublin, J.-J., & Welker, F. (2024). The ecology, subsistence and diet of ~45,000-year-old Homo sapiens at Ilsenhöhle in Ranis, Germany. Nature Ecology & Evolution. |
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Mylopotamitaki, D., Weiss, M., Fewlass, H., Zavala, E. I., Rougier, H., Sümer, A., Hajdinjak, M., Smith, G. M., Ruebens, K., Sinet-Mathiot, V., Pederzani, S., Essel, E., Harking, F. S., Xia, H., Hansen, J., Kirchner, A., Lauer, T., Stahlschmidt, M., Hein, M., Talamo, S., Wacker, L., Meller, H., Dietl, H., Orschiedt, J., Olsen, J. V., Zeberg, H., Prüfer, K., Krause, J., Meyer, M., Welker, F., McPherron, S. P., Schüler, T., & Hublin, J.-J. (2024). Homo sapiens reached the higher latitudes of Europe by 45,000 years ago. Nature, 626, 341-346. |
Cauret, C. M. S., Jordan, D. C., Kukoly, L. M., Burton, S. R., Anele, E. U., Kwiecien, J. M., Gansauge, M.-T., Senthillmohan, S., Greenbaum, E., Meyer, M., Horb, M. E., & Evans, B. J. (2023). Functional dissection and assembly of a small, newly evolved, W chromosome-specific genomic region of the African clawed frog Xenopus laevis. PLoS Genetics, 19(10): e1010990. |
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Westerich, K. J., Reinecke, S., Emich, J., Wyrwoll, M. J., Stallmeyer, B., Meyer, M., Oud, M. S., Fietz, D., Pilatz, A., Kliesch, S., Reichman-Fried, M., Tarbashevich, K., Limon, T., Stehling, M., Friedrich, C., Tüttelmann, F., & Raz, E. (2023). Linking human Dead end 1 (DND1) variants to male infertility employing zebrafish embryos. Human Reproduction, 38(4): dead031, pp. 655-670. |
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Zavala, E. I., Jacobs, Z., Vernot, B., Shunkov, M. V., Kozlikin, M. B., Derevianko, A. P., Essel, E., de Filippo, C., Nagel, S., Richter, J., Romagné, F., Schmidt, A., Li, B., O'Gorman, K., Slon, V., Kelso, J., Pääbo, S., Roberts, R. G., & Meyer, M. (2023). The occupational history of Denisova Cave. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 180(S75), 199-200. |
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Essel, E., Zavala, E. I., Schulz-Kornas, E., Kozlikin, M. B., Fewlass, H., Vernot, B., Shunkov, M. V., Derevianko, A. P., Douka, K., Barnes, I., Soulier, M.-C., Schmidt, A., Szymanski, M., Tsanova, T., Sirakov, N., Endarova, E., McPherron, S. P., Hublin, J.-J., Kelso, J., Pääbo, S., Hajdinjak, M., Soressi, M., & Meyer, M. (2023). Ancient human DNA recovered from a Palaeolithic pendant. Nature, 618, 328-332. |
Skov, L., Peyrégne, S., Popli, D. R., Iasi, L. N., Devièse, T., Slon, V., Zavala, E. I., Hajdinjak, M., Sümer, A., Grote, S., Bossoms Mesa, A., López Herráez, D., Nickel, B., Nagel, S., Richter, J., Essel, E., Gansauge, M.-T., Schmidt, A., Korlevic, P., Comeskey, D., Derevianko, A. P., Kharevich, A., Markin, S. V., Talamo, S., Douka, K., Krajcarz, M. T., Roberts, R. G., Higham, T., Viola, B., Krivoshapkin, A. I., Kolobova, K. A., Kelso, J., Meyer, M., Pääbo, S., & Peter, B. M. (2022). Genetic insights into the social organization of Neanderthals. Nature, 610, 519-525. |
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Slon, V., Clark, J. L., Friesem, D. E., Orbach, M., Porat, N., Meyer, M., Kandel, A. W., & Shimelmitz, R. (2022). Extended longevity of DNA preservation in Levantine Paleolithic sediments, Sefunim Cave, Israel. Scientific Reports, 12: 14528. |
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Zavala, E. I., Ayinuer-Petri, A., Richter, J., Nickel, B., Vernot, B., & Meyer, M. (2022). Quantifying and reducing cross‐contamination in single‐ and multiplex hybridization capture of ancient DNA. Molecular Ecology Resources, 22(6), 2196-2207. |
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Oliveira, S. *., Nägele, K., Carlhoff, S., Pugach, I., Koesbardiati, T., Hübner, A., Meyer, M., Oktaviana, A. A., Takenaka, M., Katagiri, C., Murti, D. B., Putri, R. S., Mahirta, Petchey, F., Higham, T., Higham, C., O’Connor, S., Hawkins, S., Kinaston, R., Bellwood, P., Ono, R., Powell, A., Krause, J. *., Posth, C. *., & Stoneking, M. *. (2022). Ancient genomes from the last three millennia support multiple human dispersals into Wallacea. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 6, 1024-1034. |
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Rocha, J. L., Vaz Pinto, P., Siegismund, H. R., Meyer, M., Jansen van Vuuren, B., Veríssimo, L., Ferrand, N., & Godinho, R. (2022). African climate and geomorphology drive evolution and ghost introgression in sable antelope. Molecular Ecology, 31(10), 2968-2984. |
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Massilani, D., Morley, M. W., Mentzer, S. M., Aldeias, V., Vernot, B., Miller, C., Stahlschmidt, M., Kozlikin, M. B., Shunkov, M. V., Derevianko, A. P., Conard, N. J., Wurz, S., Henshilwood, C. S., Vasquez, J., Essel, E., Nagel, S., Richter, J., Nickel, B., Roberts, R. G., Pääbo, S., Slon, V., Goldberg, P., & Meyer, M. (2022). Microstratigraphic preservation of ancient faunal and hominin DNA in Pleistocene cave sediments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(1): e2113666118. |
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Zavala, E. I., Thomas, J. T., Sturk-Andreaggi, K., Daniels-Higginbotham, J., Meyers, K. K., Barrit-Ross, S., Ayinuer-Petri, A., Richter, J., Nickel, B., Berg, G. E., McMahon, T. P., Meyer, M., & Marshall, C. (2022). Ancient DNA methods improve forensic DNA profiling of Korean War and World War II unknowns. Genes, 13(129). |
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Brown, S., Massilani, D., Kozlikin, M. B., Shunkov, M. V., Derevianko, A. P., Stoessel, A., Jope-Street, B., Meyer, M., Kelso, J., Pääbo, S., Higham, T., & Douka, K. (2022). The earliest Denisovans and their cultural adaptation. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 6, 28-35. |
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Salisbury, R. B., Bull, I. D., Cereda, S., Draganits, E., Dulias, K., Kowarik, K., Meyer, M., Zavala, E. I., & Rebay-Salisbury, K. (2022). Making the most of soils in archaeology. A review. Archaeologia Austriaca, 106, 319-334. |
Silvestrini, S., Romandini, M., Marciani, G., Arrighi, S., Carrera, L., Fiorini, A., López-García, J. M., Lugli, F., Ranaldo, F., Slon, V., Tassoni, L., Higgins, O. A., Bortolini, E., Curci, A., Meyer, M., Meyer, M. C., Oxilia, G., Zerboni, A., Benazzi, S., & Spinapolice, E. E. (2021). Integrated multidisciplinary ecological analysis from the Uluzzian settlement at the Uluzzo C Rock Shelter, south-eastern Italy. Journal of Quaternary Science, 37(2): jqs.3341, pp. 235-256. |
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Essel, E., Korlević, P., & Meyer, M. (2021). A method for the temperature-controlled extraction of DNA from ancient bones. Biotechniques, 71(1), 383-387. |
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Devièse, T., Abrams, G., Hajdinjak, M., Pirson, S., De Groote, I., Di Modica, K., Toussaint, M., Fischer, V., Comeskey, D., Spindler, L., Meyer, M., Semal, P., & Higham, T. (2021). Reply to Van Peer: Direct radiocarbon dating and ancient genomic analysis reveal the true age of the Neanderthals at Spy Cave. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(26): e2107116118. |
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Vernot, B., Zavala, E. I., Gómez-Olivencia, A., Jacobs, Z., Slon, V., Mafessoni, F., Romagné, F., Pearson, A., Petr, M., Sala, N., Pablos, A., Aranburu, A., de Castro, J. M. B., Carbonell, E., Li, B., Krajcarz, M. T., Krivoshapkin, A. I., Kolobova, K. A., Kozlikin, M. B., Shunkov, M. V., Derevianko, A. P., Viola, B., Grote, S., Essel, E., López Herráez, D., Nagel, S., Nickel, B., Richter, J., Schmidt, A., Peter, B., Kelso, J., Roberts, R. G., Arsuaga, J.-L., & Meyer, M. (2021). Unearthing Neanderthal population history using nuclear and mitochondrial DNA from cave sediments. Science, eabf1667. |
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Devièse, T., Abrams, G., Hajdinjak, M., Pirson, S., De Groote, I., Di Modica, K., Toussaint, M., Fischer, V., Comeskey, D., Spindler, L., Meyer, M., Semal, P., & Higham, T. (2021). Reevaluating the timing of Neanderthal disappearance in Northwest Europe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(12): e2022466118. |
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Bokelmann, L., Nickel, O., Maricic, T., Pääbo, S., Meyer, M., Borte, S., & Riesenberg, S. (2021). Point-of-care bulk testing for SARS-CoV-2 by combining hybridization capture with improved colorimetric LAMP. Nature Communications, 12(1): 1467. |
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Pugach, I., Hübner, A., Hung, H.-c., Meyer, M., Carson, M. T., & Stoneking, M. (2021). Ancient DNA from Guam and the peopling of the Pacific. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(1): e202211211. |
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Hajdinjak, M., Mafessoni, F., Skov, L., Vernot, B., Hübner, A., Fu, Q., Essel, E., Nagel, S., Nickel, B., Richter, J., Moldovan, O. T., Constantin, S., Endarova, E., Zahariev, N., Spasov, R., Welker, F., Smith, G. M., Sinet-Mathiot, V., Paskulin, L., Fewlass, H., Talamo, S., Rezek, Z., Sirakova, S., Sirakov, N., McPherron, S. P., Tsanova, T., Hublin, J.-J., Peter, B., Meyer, M., Skoglund, P., Kelso, J., & Pääbo, S. (2021). Initial Upper Palaeolithic humans in Europe had recent Neanderthal ancestry. Nature, 592, 253-257. |
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Zavala, E. I., Jacobs, Z., Vernot, B., Shunkov, M. V., Kozlikin, M. B., Derevianko, A. P., Essel, E., de Filippo, C., Nagel, S., Richter, J., Romagné, F., Schmidt, A., Li, B., O’Gorman, K., Slon, V., Kelso, J., Pääbo, S., Roberts, R. G., & Meyer, M. (2021). Pleistocene sediment DNA reveals hominin and faunal turnovers at Denisova Cave. Nature, 595, 399-403. |
Maricic, T., Nickel, O., Ayinuer-Petri, A., Essel, E., Gansauge, M.-T., Kanis, P., Macak, D., Riesenberg, S., Bokelmann, L., Zeberg, H., Meyer, M., Borte, S., & Pääbo, S. (2020). A direct RT-qPCR approach to test large numbers of individuals for SARS-CoV-2. PLoS One, 15(12): e0244824. |
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Balzeau, A., Turq, A., Talamo, S., Daujeard, C., Guérin, G., Welker, F., Crevecoeur, I., Fewlass, H., Hublin, J.-J., Lahaye, C., Maureille, B., Meyer, M., Schwab, C., & Gómez-Olivencia, A. (2020). Pluridisciplinary evidence for burial for the La Ferrassie 8 Neandertal child. Scientific Reports, 10: 21230. |
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Massilani, D., Skov, L., Hajdinjak, M., Gunchinsuren, B., Tseveendorj, D., Yi, S., Lee, J., Nagel, S., Nickel, B., Devièse, T., Higham, T., Meyer, M., Kelso, J., Peter, B., & Pääbo, S. (2020). Denisovan ancestry and population history of early East Asians. Science, 370(6516), 579-583. |
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Zhang, D., Xia, H., Chen, F., Li, B., Slon, V., Cheng, T., Yang, R., Jacobs, Z., Dai, Q., Massilani, D., Shen, X., Wang, J., Feng, X., Cao, P., Yang, M. A., Yao, J., Yang, J., Madsen, D. B., Han, Y., Ping, W., Liu, F., Perreault, C., Chen, X., Meyer, M., Kelso, J., Pääbo, S., & Fu, Q. (2020). Denisovan DNA in Late Pleistocene sediments from Baishiya Karst Cave on the Tibetan Plateau. Science, 370(6516), 584-587. |
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Bokelmann, L., Glocke, I., & Meyer, M. (2020). Reconstructing double-stranded DNA fragments on a single-molecule level reveals patterns of degradation in ancient samples. Genome Research, 30(10), 1449-1457. |
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Braadbaart, F., Reidsma, F., Roebroeks, W., Chiotti, L., Slon, V., Meyer, M., Théry-Parisot, I., van Hoesel, A., Nierop, K., Kaal, J., van Os, B., & Marquer, L. (2020). Heating histories and taphonomy of ancient fireplaces: A multi-proxy case study from the Upper Palaeolithic sequence of Abri Pataud (Les Eyzies-de-Tayac, France). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 33: 102468. |
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Romandini, M., Gregorio, O., Bortolini, E., Peyrégne, S., Delpiano, D., Nava, A., Panetta, D., Domenico, G. D., Martini, P., Arrighi, S., Badino, F., Figus, C., Lugli, F., Marciani, G., Silvestrini, S., Sartorio, J. C. M., Terlato, G., Hublin, J.-J., Meyer, M., Bondioli, L., Higham, T., Slon, V., Peresani, M., & Benazzi, S. (2020). A late Neanderthal tooth from northeastern Italy. Journal of Human Evolution, 147: 102867. |
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Schulze, F. M. *., Posth, C., Esquivel-Gomez, L. R., Hübler, R., Spyrou, M. A., Neumann, G., Furtwängler, A., Sabin, S., Burri, M., Wissgott, A., Lankapalli, A. K., Vågene, Å. J., Meyer, M., Nagel, S., Tukhbatova, R. I., Khokhlov, A., Chizhevsky, A., Hansen, S., Belinsky, A. B., Kalmykov, A., Kantorovich, A. R., Maslov, V. E., Stockhammer, P. W., Vai, S., Zavattaro, M., Riga, A., Caramelli, D., Skeates, R., Beckett, J., Gradoli, M. G., Steuri, N., Hafner, A., Ramstein, M., Siebke, I., Lösch, S., Erdal, Y. S., Alikhan, N.-F., Zhou, Z., Achtman, M., Bos, K. I., Reinhold, S., Haak, W., Kühnert, D., Herbig, A. *., & Krause, J. *. (2020). Emergence of human-adapted Salmonella enterica is linked to the Neolithization process. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 4, 324-333. |
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Petr, M., Hajdinjak, M., Fu, Q., Essel, E., Rougier, H., Crevecoeur, I., Semal, P., Golovanova, L. V., Doronichev, V. B., Lalueza-Fox, C., de la Rasilla, M., Rosas, A., Shunkov, M. V., Kozlikin, M. B., Derevianko, A. P., Vernot, B., Meyer, M., & Kelso, J. (2020). The evolutionary history of Neanderthal and Denisovan Y chromosomes. Science, 369(6511), 1653-1656. |
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Evans, B. J., Gansauge, M.-T., Tocheri, M. W., Schillaci, M. A., Sutikna, T., Jatmiko, Saptomo, E. W., Klegarth, A., Tosi, A. J., Melnick, D. J., & Meyer, M. (2020). Mitogenomics of macaques (Macaca) across Wallace's Line in the context of modern human dispersals. Journal of Human Evolution, 146: 102852. |
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Lang, P. L. M., Weiß, C. L., Kersten, S., Latorre, S. M., Nagel, S., Nickel, B., Meyer, M., & Burbano, H. A. (2020). Hybridization ddRAD-sequencing for population genomics of nonmodel plants using highly degraded historical specimen DNA. Molecular Ecology Resources, 20(5), 1228-1247. |
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Smith, G. M., Spasov, R., Sinet-Mathiot, V., Welker, F., Meyer, M., Vernot, B., McPherron, S. P., Sirakov, N., Tsanova, T., & Hublin, J.-J. (2020). Subsistence behaviour during the Initial Upper Palaeolithic of Bacho Kiro (Bulgaria): Integrating zooarchaeological and biomolecular datasets. In 26th EAA Virtual Annual Meeting – Abstract Book (pp. 41). |
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Gansauge, M.-T., Aximu-Petri, A., Nagel, S., & Meyer, M. (2020). Manual and automated preparation of single-stranded DNA libraries for the sequencing of DNA from ancient biological remains and other sources of highly degraded DNA. Nature Protocols, 15, 2279-2300. |
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Mafessoni, F., Grote, S., de Filippo, C., Slon, V., Kolobova, K. A., Viola, B., Markin, S. V., Chintalapati, M., Peyrégne, S., Skov, L., Skoglund, P., Krivoshapkin, A. I., Derevianko, A. P., Meyer, M., Kelso, J., Peter, B., Prüfer, K., & Pääbo, S. (2020). A high-coverage Neandertal genome from Chagyrskaya Cave. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(26), 15132-15136. |
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Weiß, C. L., Gansauge, M.-T., Aximu-Petri, A., Meyer, M., & Burbano, H. A. (2020). Mining ancient microbiomes using selective enrichment of damaged DNA molecules. BMC Genomics, 21: 432. |
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Parker, E. C., Rohrlach, A. B., Friederich, S., Nagel, S., Meyer, M., Krause, J. *., Bos, K. I., & Haak, W. *. (2020). A systematic investigation of human DNA preservation in medieval skeletons. Scientific Reports, 10(1): 18225. |
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Hublin, J.-J., Sirakov, N., Aldeias, V., Bailey, S., Bard, E., Delvigne, V., Endarova, E., Fagault, Y., Fewlass, H., Hajdinjak, M., Kromer, B., Krumov, I., Marreiros, J., Martisius, N. L., Paskulin, L., Sinet-Mathiot, V., Meyer, M., Pääbo, S., Popov, V., Rezek, Z., Sirakova, S., Skinner, M. M., Smith, G. M., Spasov, R., Talamo, S., Tuna, T., Wacker, L., Welker, F., Wilcke, A., Zahariev, N., McPherron, S. P., & Tsanova, T. (2020). Initial Upper Palaeolithic Homo sapiens from Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria. Nature, 581(7808), 299-302. |
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Cauret, C. M. S., Gansauge, M.-T., Tupper, A. S., Furman, B. L. S., Knytl, M., Song, X., Greenbaum, E., Meyer, M., & Evans, B. J. (2020). Developmental systems drift and the drivers of sex chromosome evolution. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 37(3), 799-808. |
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Yang, M. A., Gao, X., Theunert, C., Tong, H., Ayinuer-Petri, A., Nickel, B., Slatkin, M., Meyer, M., Pääbo, S., Kelso, J., & Fu, Q. (2017). 40,000-year-old individual from Asia provides insight into early population structure in Eurasia. Current Biology, 27(20), 3202-3208. |
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Douka, K., Slon, V., Stringer, C., Potts, R., Hübner, A., Meyer, M., Spoor, F., Pääbo, S., & Higham, T. (2017). Direct radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis of the Darra-i-Kur (Afghanistan) human temporal bone. Journal of Human Evolution, 107, 86-93. |
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Froese, D., Stiller, M., Heintzman, P. D., Reyes, A. V., Zazula, G. D., Soares, A. E. R., Meyer, M., Hall, E., Jensen, B. J. L., Arnold, L. J., MacPhee, R. D. E., & Shapiro, B. (2017). Fossil and genomic evidence constrains the timing of bison arrival in North America. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(13), 3457-3462. |
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Glocke, I., & Meyer, M. (2017). Extending the spectrum of DNA sequences retrieved from ancient bones and teeth. Genome Research, 27, 1230-1237. |
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Slon, V., Glocke, I., Barkai, R., Gopher, A., Hershkovitz, I., & Meyer, M. (2016). Mammalian mitochondrial capture, a tool for rapid screening of DNA preservation in faunal and undiagnostic remains, and its application to Middle Pleistocene specimens from Qesem Cave (Israel). Quaternary International, 398, 210-218. |
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Brown, S., Higham, T., Slon, V., Pääbo, S., Meyer, M., Douka, K., Brock, F., Comeskey, D., Procopio, N., Shunkov, M., Derevianko, A., & Buckley, M. (2016). Identification of a new hominin bone from Denisova Cave, Siberia using collagen fingerprinting and mitochondrial DNA analysis. Scientific Reports, 6: 23559. |
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Meyer, M., Arsuaga, J.-L., de Filippo, C., Nagel, S., Aximu-Petri, A., Nickel, B., Martínez, I., Gracia, A., Bermúdez de Castro, J. M., Carbonell, E., Viola, B., Kelso, J., Prüfer, K., & Pääbo, S. (2016). Nuclear DNA sequences from the Middle Pleistocene Sima de los Huesos hominins. Nature, 531(7595), 504-507. |
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Korlević, P., Gerber, T., Gansauge, M.-T., Hajdinjak, M., Nagel, S., Ayinuer-Petri, A., & Meyer, M. (2015). Reducing microbial and human contamination in DNA extractions from ancient bones and teeth. BioTechniques, 59(2), 87-93. |
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Alter, S. E., Meyer, M., Post, K., Czechowski, P., Gravlund, P., Gaines, C., Rosenbaum, H. C., Kaschner, K., Turvey, S. T., van der Plicht, J., Shapiro, B., & Hofreiter, M. (2015). Climate impacts on transocean dispersal and habitat in gray whales from the Pleistocene to 2100. Molecular Ecology, 24(7), 1510-1522. |
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Prüfer, K., & Meyer, M. (2015). Comment on “Late Pleistocene human skeleton and mtDNA link Paleoamericans and modern Native Americans”. Science, 347(6224), 835-835. |
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Teixeira, J. C., de Filippo, C., Weihmann, A., Meneu, J. R., Racimo, F., Dannemann, M., Nickel, B., Fischer, A., Halbwax, M., Andre, C., Atencia, R., Meyer, M., Parra, G., Pääbo, S., & Andrés, A. M. (2015). Long-term balancing selection in LAD1 maintains a missense trans-species polymorphism in humans, chimpanzees and bonobos. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 32(5), 1186-1196. |
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Gansauge, M.-T., & Meyer, M. (2014). Selective enrichment of damaged DNA molecules for ancient genome sequencing. Genome Research, 24(9), 1543-1549. |
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Lazaridis, I., Patterson, N., Mittnik, A., Renaud, G., Mallick, S., Kirsanow, K., Sudmant, P. H., Schraiber, J. G., Castellano, S., Lipson, M., Berger, B., Economou, C., Bollongino, R., Fu, Q., Bos, K. I., Nordenfelt, S., Li, H., de Filippo, C., Prüfer, K., Sawyer, S., Posth, C., Haak, W., Hallgren, F., Fornander, E., Rohland, N., Delsate, D., Francken, M., Guinet, J.-M., Wahl, J., Ayodo, G., Babiker, H. A., Bailliet, G., Balanovska, E., Balanovsky, O., Barrantes, R., Bedoya, G., Ben-Ami, H., Bene, J., Berrada, F., Bravi, C. M., Brisighelli, F., Busby, G. B. J., Cali, F., Churnosov, M., Cole, D. E. C., Corach, D., Damba, L., van Driem, G., Dryomov, S., Dugoujon, J.-M., Fedorova, S. A., Romero, I. G., Gubina, M., Hammer, M., Henn, B. M., Hervig, T., Hodoglugil, U., Jha, A. R., Karachanak-Yankova, S., Khusainova, R., Khusnutdinova, E., Kittles, R., Kivisild, T., Klitz, W., Kucinskas, V., Kushniarevich, A., Laredj, L., Litvinov, S., Loukidis, T., Mahley, R. W., Melegh, B., Metspalu, E., Molina, J., Mountain, J., Näkkäläjärvi, K., Nesheva, D., Nyambo, T., Osipova, L., Parik, J., Platonov, F., Posukh, O., Romano, V., Rothhammer, F., Rudan, I., Ruizbakiev, R., Sahakyan, H., Sajantila, A., Salas, A., Starikovskaya, E. B., Tarekegn, A., Toncheva, D., Turdikulova, S., Uktveryte, I., Utevska, O., Vasquez, R., Villena, M., Voevoda, M., Winkler, C. A., Yepiskoposyan, L., Zalloua, P., Zemunik, T., Cooper, A., Capelli, C., Thomas, M. G., Ruiz-Linares, A., Tishkoff, S. A., Singh, L., Thangaraj, K., Villems, R., Comas, D., Sukernik, R., Metspalu, M., Meyer, M., Eichler, E. E., Burger, J., Slatkin, M., Pääbo, S., Kelso, J., Reich, D. *., & Krause, J. *. (2014). Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans. Nature, 513(7518), 409-413. |
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Weigert, A., Helm, C., Meyer, M., Nickel, B., Arendt, D., Hausdorf, B., Santos, S. R., Halanych, K. M., Purschke, G., Bleidorn, C., & Struck, T. H. (2014). Illuminating the base of the annelid tree using transcriptomics. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 31(6), 1391-1401. |
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Meyer, M., Fu, Q., Ayinuer-Petri, A., Glocke, I., Nickel, B., Arsuaga, J.-L., Martínez, I., Gracia, A., de Castro, J. M. B., Carbonell, E., & Pääbo, S. (2014). A mitochondrial genome sequence of a hominin from Sima de los Huesos. Nature, 505(7483), 403-406. |
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Prüfer, K., Racimo, F., Patterson, N., Jay, F., Sankararaman, S., Sawyer, S., Heinze, A., Renaud, G., Sudmant, P. H., de Filippo, C., Li, H., Mallick, S., Dannemann, M., Fu, Q., Kircher, M., Kuhlwilm, M., Lachmann, M., Meyer, M., Ongyerth, M., Siebauer, M. F., Theunert, C., Tandon, A., Moorjani, P., Pickrell, J., Mullikin, J. C., Vohr, S. H., Green, R. E., Hellmann, I., Johnson, P. L. F., Blanche, H., Cann, H., Kitzman, J. O., Shendure, J., Eichler, E. E., Lein, E. S., Bakken, T. E., Golovanova, L. V., Doronichev, V. B., Shunkov, M. V., Derevianko, A. P., Viola, B., Slatkin, M., Reich, D., Kelso, J., & Pääbo, S. (2014). The complete genome sequence of a Neanderthal from the Altai Mountains. Nature, 505(7481), 43-49. |
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Castellano, S., Parra, G., Sánchez-Quinto, F. A., Racimo, F., Kuhlwilm, M., Kircher, M., Sawyer, S., Fu, Q., Heinze, A., Nickel, B., Dabney, J., Siebauer, M. F., White, L., Burbano, H. A., Renaud, G., Stenzel, U., Lalueza-Fox, C., de la Rasilla, M., Rosas, A., Rudan, P., Brajkovic, D., Kucan, Ž., Gušic, I., Shunkov, M. V., Derevianko, A. P., Viola, B., Meyer, M., Kelso, J., Andrés, A. M., & Pääbo, S. (2014). Patterns of coding variation in the complete exomes of three Neandertals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111(18), 6666-6671. |
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Dabney, J., Meyer, M., & Pääbo, S. (2014). Ancient DNA damage. In E. C. Friedberg, S. J. Elledge, A. R. Lehmann, T. Lindahl, & M. Muzi-Falconi ( |
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Hajdinjak, M., Korlević, P., Gansauge, M.-T., Dabney, J., Slon, V., Glocke, I., Sawyer, S., Nickel, B., Nagel, S., Gerber, T., Hopfe, C., Stenzel, U., Renaud, G., Andrés, A. M., Castellano, S., Kelso, J., Prüfer, K., Meyer, M., & Pääbo, S. (2014). Neandertal genetic diversity. Poster presented at XVII World UISPP Congress, Burgos, Spain. |
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Meyer, M., Arsuaga, J. L., Martínez, I., García, N., Gracia, A., de Bermúdez Castro, J. M., Carbonell, E., Valdiosera, C., Knapp, M., Dabney, J., Fu, Q., Ayinuer-Petri, A., Glocke, I., Gansauge, M.-T., Weihmann, A., Nickel, B., & Pääbo, S. (2014). A genetic characterization of the fossils from Sima de los Huesos. In XVII World UISPP Congress 2014: Abstracts (pp. 1008-1009). |
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Mitchell, K. J., Pratt, R. C., Watson, L. N., Gibb, G. C., Llamas, B., Kasper, M., Edson, J., Hopwood, B., Male, D., Armstrong, K. N., Meyer, M., Hofreiter, M., Austin, J., Donnellan, S. C., Lee, M. S. Y., Phillips, M. J., & Cooper, A. (2014). Molecular phylogeny, biogeography, and habitat preference evolution of marsupials. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 31(9), 2322-2330. |
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Slon, V., Barkai, R., Gopher, A., Glocke, I., Hershkovitz, I., Meyer, M., & Pääbo, S. (2014). Ancient dna analysis of middle pleistocene faunal remains from Qesem Cave, Israel. In XVII World UISPP Congress 2014: Abstracts (pp. 782-783). |
Thalmann, O., Shapiro, B., Cui, P., Schuenemann, V. J., Sawyer, S., Greenfield, D. L., Germonpré, M. B., Sablin, M. V., López-Giráldez, F., Domingo-Roura, X., Napierala, H., Uerpmann, H.-P., Loponte, D. M., Acosta, A. A., Giemsch, L., Schmitz, R. W., Worthington, B., Buikstra, J. E., Druzhkova, A., Graphodatsky, A. S., Ovodov, N. D., Wahlberg, N., Freedman, A. H., Schweizer, R. M., Koepfli, K.-P., Leonard, J. A., Meyer, M., Krause, J., Pääbo, S., Green, R. E., & Wayne, R. K. (2013). Complete mitochondrial genomes of ancient canids suggest a European origin of domestic dogs. Science, 342(6160), 871-874. |
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Dabney, J., Knapp, M., Glocke, I., Gansauge, M.-T., Weihmann, A., Nickel, B., Valdiosera, C., García, N., Pääbo, S., Arsuaga, J.-L., & Meyer, M. (2013). Complete mitochondrial genome sequence of a Middle Pleistocene cave bear reconstructed from ultrashort DNA fragments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110(39), 15758-15763. |
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Finstermeier, K., Zinner, D., Brameier, M., Meyer, M., Kreuz, E., Hofreiter, M., & Roos, C. (2013). A mitogenomic phylogeny of living primates. PLoS One, 8(7): e69504. |
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Dabney, J., Meyer, M., & Pääbo, S. (2013). Ancient DNA damage. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, 5(7): a012567. |
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Gansauge, M.-T., & Meyer, M. (2013). Single-stranded DNA library preparation for the sequencing of ancient or damaged DNA. Nature Protocols, 8(4), 737-748. |
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Maricic, T., Günther, V., Georgiev, O., Gehre, S., Curlin, M., Schreiweis, C., Naumann, R., Burbano, H. A., Meyer, M., Lalueza-Fox, C., de la Rasilla, M., Rosas, A., Gajovic, S., Kelso, J., Enard, W., Schaffner, W., & Pääbo, S. (2013). A recent evolutionary change affects a regulatory element in the human FOXP2 gene. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 30(4), 844-852. |
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Fu, Q., Meyer, M., Gao, X., Stenzel, U., Burbano, H. A., Kelso, J., & Pääbo, S. (2013). DNA analysis of an early modern human from Tianyuan Cave, China. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110(6), 2223-2227. |
Hering, L., Henze, M. J., Kohler, M., Kelber, A., Bleidorn, C., Leschke, M., Nickel, B., Meyer, M., Kircher, M., Sunnucks, P., & Mayer, G. (2012). Opsins in onychophora (velvet worms) suggest a single origin and subsequent diversification of visual pigments in arthropods. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 29(11), 3451-3458. |
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Meyer, M., Kircher, M., Gansauge, M.-T., Li, H., Racimo, F., Mallick, S., Schraiber, J. G., Jay, F., Prüfer, K., Filippo, C. d., Sudmant, P. H., Alkan, C., Fu, Q., Do, R., Rohland, N., Tandon, A., Siebauer, M., Green, R. E., Bryc, K., Briggs, A. W., Stenzel, U., Dabney, J., Shendure, J., Kitzman, J., Hammer, M. F., Shunkov, M. V., Derevianko, A. P., Patterson, N., Andrés, A. M., Eichler, E. E., Slatkin, M., Reich, D., Kelso, J., & Pääbo, S. (2012). A high-coverage genome sequence from an archaic Denisovan individual. Science, 338(6104), 222-226. |
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Dabney, J., & Meyer, M. (2012). Length and GC-biases during sequencing library amplification: A comparison of various polymerase-buffer systems with ancient and modern DNA sequencing libraries. BioTechniques, 52(2), 87-94. |
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Hartmann, S., Helm, C., Nickel, B., Meyer, M., Struck, T. H., Tiedemann, R., Selbig, J., & Bleidorn, C. (2012). Exploiting gene families for phylogenomic analysis of myzostomid transcriptome data. PLoS One, 7(1): e29843. |
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Gravlund, P., Aaris-Sørensen, K., Hofreiter, M., Meyer, M., Bollback, J. P., & Noe-Nygaar, N. (2012). Ancient DNA extracted from Danish aurochs (Bos primigenius): Genetic diversity and preservation. Annals of Anatomy - Anatomischer Anzeiger, 194(1), 103-111. |
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Kircher, M., Sawyer, S., & Meyer, M. (2012). Double indexing overcomes inaccuracies in multiplex sequencing on the Illumina platform. Nucleic Acids Research, 40(1): e3. |
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Knapp, M., Stiller, M., & Meyer, M. (2012). Generating barcoded libraries for multiplex high-throughput sequencing. In B. Shapiro, & M. Hofreiter ( |
Bos, K. I., Schuenemann, V. J., Golding, G. B., Burbano, H. A., Waglechner, N., Coombes, B. K., McPhee, J. B., DeWitte, S. N., Meyer, M., Schmedes, S., Wood, J., Earn, D. J. D., Herring, D. A., Bauer, P., Poinar, H. N. *., & Krause, J. *. (2011). A draft genome of Yersinia pestis from victims of the Black Death. Nature, 478(7370), 506-510. |
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Lerner, H. R. L., Meyer, M., James, H. F., Hofreiter, M., & Fleischer, R. C. (2011). Multilocus resolution of phylogeny and timescale in the extant adaptive radiation of Hawaiian honeycreepers. Current Biology, 21(21), 1838-1844. |
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Stewart, J. R., Aspinall, S., Beech, M., Fenberg, P., Hellyer, P., Larkin, N., Lokier, S. W., Marx, F. G., Meyer, M., Miller, R., Rainbow, P. S., Taylor, J. D., Whittaker, J. E., Al-Mehsin, K., & Strohmenger, C. J. (2011). Biotically constrained palaeoenvironmental conditions of a mid-Holocene intertidal lagoon on the southern shore of the Arabian Gulf: Evidence associated with a whale skeleton at Musaffah, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Quaternary Science Reviews, 30(25-26), 3675-3690. |
Asher, R. J., Maree, S., Bronner, G., Bennett, N. C., Bloomer, P., Czechowski, P., Meyer, M., & Hofreiter, M. (2010). A phylogenetic estimate for golden moles (Mammalia, Afrotheria, Chrysochloridae). BMC Evolutionary Biology, 10: 69. |
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Briggs, A. W., Stenzel, U., Meyer, M., Krause, J., Kircher, M., & Pääbo, S. (2010). Removal of deaminated cytosines and detection of in vivo methylation in ancient DNA. Special Issue on Synthetic Biology, e87, pp. 1-12. |
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Burbano, H. A., Hodges, E., Green, R. E., Briggs, A. W., Krause, J., Meyer, M., Good, J. M., Maricic, T., Johnson, P. L. F., Xuan, Z., Rooks, M., Bhattacharjee, A., Brizuela, L., Albert, F. W., Rasilla, M. d. l., Fortea, J., Rosas, A., Lachmann, M., Hannon, G. J., & Pääbo, S. (2010). Targeted investigation of the Neandertal genome by array-based sequence capture. Science, 328(5979), 723-725. |
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Green, R. E., Krause, J., Briggs, A. W., Maricic, T., Stenzel, U., Kircher, M., Patterson, N., Li, H., Zhai, W., Fritz, M.-H.-Y., Hansen, N. F., Durand, E. Y., Malaspinas, A.-S., Jensen, J. D., Marques-Bonet, T., Alkan, C., Prüfer, K., Meyer, M., Burbano, H. A., Good, J. M., Schultz, R., Aximu-Petri, A., Butthoff, A., Höber, B., Höffner, B., Siegemund, M., Weihmann, A., Nusbaum, C., Lander, E. S., Russ, C., Novod, N., Affourtit, J., Egholm, M., Verna, C., Rudan, P., Brajkovic, D., Kucan, Z., Gusic, I., Doronichev, V. B., Golovanova, L. V., Lalueza-Fox, C., Rasilla, M. d. l., Fortea, J., Rosas, A., Schmitz, R. W., Johnson, P. L. F., Eichler, E. E., Falush, D., Birney, E., Mullikin, J. C., Slatkin, M., Nielsen, R., Kelso, J., Lachmann, M., Reich, D., & Pääbo, S. (2010). A draft sequence of the Neandertal genome. Science, 328(5979), 710-722. |
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Heyn, P., Stenzel, U., Briggs, A. W., Kircher, M., Hofreiter, M., & Meyer, M. (2010). Road blocks on paleogenomes - polymerase extension profiling reveals the frequency of blocking lesions in ancient DNA. Nucleic Acids Research, 38(16): e161. |
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Meyer, M., & Kircher, M. (2010). Illumina sequencing library preparation for highly multiplexed target capture and sequencing. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols, 2010(6): prot5448. |
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Reich, D., Green, R. E., Kircher, M., Krause, J., Patterson, N., Durand, E. Y., Viola, B., Briggs, A. W., Stenzel, U., Johnson, P. L. F., Maricic, T., Good, J. M., Marques-Bonet, T., Alkan, C., Fu, Q., Mallick, S., Li, H., Meyer, M., Eichler, E. E., Stoneking, M., Richards, M., Talamo, S., Shunkov, M. V., Derevianko, A. P., Hublin, J.-J., Kelso, J., Slatkin, M., & Pääbo, S. (2010). Genetic history of an archaic hominin group from Denisova Cave in Siberia. Nature, 468(7327), 1053-1060. |
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Rohland, N., Reich, D., Mallick, S., Meyer, M., Green, R. E., Georgiadis, N. J., Roca, A. L., & Hofreiter, M. (2010). Genomic DNA sequences from mastodon and woolly mammoth reveal deep speciation of forest and savanna elephants. PLoS Biology, 8(12): e1000564. |
Meyer, M. (2009). Development of targeted high-throughput DNA sequencing methods and their application in evolutionary research. PhD Thesis, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig. |
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Stiller, M., Knapp, M., Stenzel, U., Hofreiter, M., & Meyer, M. (2009). Direct multiplex sequencing (DMPS): A novel method for targeted high-throughput sequencing of ancient and highly degraded DNA. Genome Research, 19(10), 1843-1848. |
Green, R. E., Malaspinas, A.-S., Krause, J., Briggs, A. W., Johnson, P. L. F., Uhler, C., Meyer, M., Good, J. M., Maricic, T., Stenzel, U., Prüfer, K., Siebauer, M., Burbano, H. A., Ronan, M. T., Rothberg, J. M., Egholm, M., Rudan, P., Brajkovic, D., Kucan, Z., Gusic, I., Wikström, M., Laakkonen, L., Kelso, J., Slatkin, M., & Pääbo, S. (2008). A complete Neandertal mitochondrial genome sequence determined by high-throughput sequencing. Cell, 134(3), 416-426. |
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Meyer, M., Briggs, A. W., Maricic, T., Höber, B., Höffner, B., Krause, J., Weihmann, A., Pääbo, S., & Hofreiter, M. (2008). From micrograms to picograms: Quantitative PCR reduces the material demands of high-throughput sequencing. Nucleic Acids Research, 36(1): e5. |
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Meyer, M., Stenzel, U., & Hofreiter, M. (2008). Parallel tagged sequencing on the 454 platform. Nature Protocols, 3, 267-278. |
Briggs, A. W., Stenzel, U., Johnson, P. L. F., Green, R. E., Kelso, J., Prüfer, K., Meyer, M., Krause, J., Ronan, M. T., Lachmann, M., & Pääbo, S. (2007). Patterns of damage in genomic DNA sequences from a Neandertal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 104(37), 14616-14621. |
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Meyer, M., Stenzel, U., Myles, S., Prüfer, K., & Hofreiter, M. (2007). Targeted high-throughput sequencing of tagged nucleic acid samples. Nucleic Acids Research, 35(15): e97. |
Römpler, H., Dear, P. H., Krause, J., Meyer, M., Rohland, N., Schöneberg, T., Spriggs, H., Stiller, M., & Hofreiter, M. (2006). Multiplex amplification of ancient DNA. Nature Protocols, 1(2), 720-728. |
Ebersberger, I., & Meyer, M. (2005). A genomic region evolving toward different GC contents in humans and chimpanzees indicates a recent and regionally limited shift in the mutation pattern. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 22(5), 1240-1245. |
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Meyer, M. (2005). Untersuchungen zur Populationsgeschichte von Belugawalen und Grauwalen durch DNA-Analysen neu- und eiszeitlicher Meerefossilien. Diploma Thesis, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig. |