Contact
Department of Human Evolution
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
phone: +49 (341) 3550 - 350
fax: +49 (0341) 3550 - 399
e-mail: streiber@[>>> Please remove the brackets! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Publications
Articles
Sinet-Mathiot, V., Smith, G. M., Romandini, M., Wilcke, A., Peresani, M., Hublin, J.-J., & Welker, F. (2019). Combining ZooMS and zooarchaeology to study Late Pleistocene hominin behaviour at Fumane (Italy). Scientific Reports,9: 12350. ![]() | |
Zwyns, N., Paine, C. H., Tsedendorj, B., Talamo, S., Fitzsimmons, K. E., Gantumur, A., Guunii, L., Davakhuu, O., Flas, D., Dogandžić, T., Doerschner, N., Welker, F., Gillam, J. C., Noyer, J. B., Bakhtiary, R. S., Allshouse, A. F., Smith, K. N., Khatsenovich, A. M., Rybin, E. P., Byambaa, G., & Hublin, J.-J. (2019). The northern route for human dispersal in Central and Northeast Asia: New evidence from the site of Tolbor-16, Mongolia. Scientific Reports,9(1): 11759. ![]() | |
Chen, F., Welker, F., Shen, C.-C., Bailey, S. E., Bergmann, I., Davis, S., Xia, H., Wang, H., Fischer, R., Freidline, S. E., Yu, T.-L., Skinner, M. M., Stelzer, S., Dong, G., Fu, Q., Dong, G., Wang, J., Zhang, D., & Hublin, J.-J. (2019). A late Middle Pleistocene Denisovan mandible from the Tibetan Plateau. Nature,569 (7756 ), 409-412. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Jaouen, K., Richards, M. P., Le Cabec, A., Welker, F., Rendu, W., Hublin, J.-J., Soressi, M., & Talamo, S. (2019). Exceptionally high δ15N values in collagen single amino acids confirm Neandertals as high-trophic level carnivores. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,116(11), 4928-4933. ![]() | |
Cappellini, E., Welker, F., Pandolfi, L., Ramos-Madrigal, J., Samodova, D., Rüther, P. L., Fotakis, A. K., Lyon, D., Moreno-Mayar, J. V., Bukhsianidze, M., Rakownikow Jersie-Christensen, R., Mackie, M., Ginolhac, A., Ferring, R., Tappen, M., Palkopoulou, E., Dickinson, M. R., Stafford, T. W., Chan, Y. L., Götherström, A., Nathan, S. K. S. S., Heintzman, P. D., Kapp, J. D., Kirillova, I., Moodley, Y., Agusti, J., Kahlke, R.-D., Kiladze, G., Martínez-Navarro, B., Liu, S., Sandoval Velasco, M., Sinding, M.-H.-S., Kelstrup, C. D., Kelsrup, C. D., Allentoft, M. E., Orlando, L., Penkman, K., Shapiro, B., Rook, L., Dalén, L., Gilbert, M. T. P., Olsen, J. V., Lordkipanidze, D., & Willerslev, E. (2019). Early Pleistocene enamel proteome from Dmanisi resolves Stephanorhinus phylogeny. Nature,574(7776), 103-107. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Taylor, W., Shnaider, S., Abdykanova, A., Fages, A., Welker, F., Irmer, F., Seguin-Orlando, A., Khan, N., Douka, K., Kolobova, K., Orlando, L., Krivoshapkin, A., & Boivin, N. (2018). Early pastoral economies along the Ancient Silk Road: Biomolecular evidence from the Alay Valley, Kyrgyzstan. PLoS One,13(10): e0205646. ![]() | |
Welker, F. (2018). Palaeoproteomics for human evolution studies. Quaternary Science Reviews,190, 137-147. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Cappellini, E., Prohaska, A., Racimo, F., Welker, F., Pedersen, M. W., Allentoft, M. E., Damgaard, P. d. B., Gutenbrunner, P., Dunne, J., Hammann, S., Roffet-Salque, M., Ilardo, M., Moreno-Mayar, J. V., Wang, Y., Sikora, M., Vinner, L., Cox, J., Evershed, R. P., & Willerslev, E. (2018). Ancient biomolecules and evolutionary inference. Annual Review of Biochemistry,87, 1029-1060. ![]() | |
Hendy, J., Welker, F., Demarchi, B., Speller, C., Warinner, C., & Collins, M. J. (2018). A guide to ancient protein studies. Nature Ecology & Evolution,2, 791-799. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Hendy, J., Welker, F., Demarchi, B., Speller, C., Warinner, C., & Collins, M. J. (2018). Author Correction: A guide to ancient protein studies. Nature Ecology & Evolution,2, 1190-1190. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Welker, F. (2018). Elucidation of cross-species proteomic effects in human and hominin bone proteome identification through a bioinformatics experiment. BMC Evolutionary Biology,18: 23. ![]() | |
Fellows Yates, J. A., Drucker, D. G., Reiter, E., Heumos, S., Welker, F., Münzel, S. C., Wojtal, P., Lázničková-Galetová, M., Conard, N. J., Herbig, A., Bocherens, H., & Krause, J. (2017). Central European Woolly Mammoth population dynamics: Insights from Late Pleistocene Mitochondrial Genomes. Scientific Reports,7: 17714. ![]() | |
Welker, F., Smith, G. M., Hutson, J. M., Kindler, L., Garcia-Moreno, A., Villaluenga, A., Turner, E., & Gaudzinski-Windheuser, S. (2017). Middle Pleistocene protein sequences from the rhinoceros genus Stephanorhinus and the phylogeny of extant and extinct Middle/Late Pleistocene Rhinocerotidae. PeerJ,5: e3033. ![]() | |
Welker, F., Soressi, M. A., Roussel, M., Riemsdijk, I. v., Hublin, J.-J., & Collins, M. J. (2017). Variations in glutamine deamidation for a Châtelperronian bone assemblage as measured by peptide mass fingerprinting of collagen. STAR: Science & Technology of Archaeological Research,3(1), 15-27. ![]() | |
Welker, F., Hajdinjak, M., Talamo, S., Jaouen, K., Dannemann, M., David, F., Julien, M., Meyer, M., Kelso, J., Barnes, I., Braces, S., Kamminga, P., Fischer, R., Kessler, B., Stewart, J. R., Pääbo, S., Collins, M. J., & Hublin, J.-J. (2016). Palaeoproteomic evidence identifies archaic hominins associated with the Châtelperronian at the Grotte du Renne. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,113(44), 11162-11167. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Talamo, S., Hajdinjak, M., Mannino, M. A., Fasani, L., Welker, F., Martini, F., Romagnoli, F., Zorzin, R., Meyer, M., & Hublin, J.-J. (2016). Direct radiocarbon dating and genetic analyses on the purported Neanderthal mandible from the Monti Lessini (Italy). Scientific Reports,6: 29144. ![]() | |
Welker, F., Collins, M. J., Thomas, J. A., Wadsley, M., Brace, S., Cappellini, E., Turvey, S. T., Reguero, M., Gelfo, J. N., Kramarz, A., Burger, J., Thomas-Oates, J., Ashford, D. A., Ashton, P. D., Rowsell, K., Porter, D. M., Kessler, B., Fischer, R., Baessmann, C., Kaspar, S., Olsen, J. V., Kiley, P., Elliott, J. A., Kelstrup, C. D., 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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Welker, F., Soressi, M., Rendu, W., Hublin, J.-J., & Collins, M. (2015). Using ZooMS to identify fragmentary bone from the Late Middle/Early Upper Palaeolithic sequence of Les Cottés, France. Journal of Archaeological Science,54, 279-286. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Welker, F., Duijm, E., van der Gaag, J., K., van Geel, B., de Knijff, P., van Leeuwen, J., Mol, D., van der Plicht, J., Raes, N., Reumer, J., & Gravendeel, B. (2014). Analysis of coprolites from the extinct mountain goat Myotragus balearicus. Quaternary Research,81(1), 106-116. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Welker, F., Gijsbers, W., & Gravendeel, G. (2012). DNA-analyse van eeuwenoude runderhuiden uit scheepswrak Aanloop Molengat. Westerheem: Het tijdschrift voor de Nederlandse archeologie,61(5), 251-261. BibTeX Endnote |
Book Reviews
Welker, F. (2013). Review of: DNA for Archaeologists, by E. Matisoo-Smith and K. Ann Horsburgh. Archaeological Review from Cambridge,28(2), 200-204. BibTeX Endnote |
Meeting Abstracts
Cappellini, E., Welker, F., Olsen, J. P., Lordkipanidze, D., & Willerslev, E. (2019). Enamel proteome sequences from Dmanisi (Georgia) enable molecular phylogeny beyond the limits of ancient DNA preservation. American Journal of Physical Anthropology,168(S68), 35-35. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Welker, F., Ramos-Madrigal, J., Wang, W., Kuhlwilm, M., de Manuel Montero, M., Demeter, F., Lalueza-Fox, C., Marques-Bonet, T., Olsen, J. V., & Cappellini, E. (2019). Palaeoproteomic analysis of Early Pleistocene Gigantopithecus blacki. American Journal of Physical Anthropology,168(S68), 265-265. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Welker, F., Soressi, M., & Hublin, J.-J. (2017). A human dentine proteome from Les Cottés, France. In Proceedings of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (PESHE) (6, pp. 212). ![]() | |
Zwyns, N., Bolorbat, T., Paine, C. H., Flas, D., Odsuren, D., Fitzsimmons, K. E., Talamo, S., Stewart, J. R., Dörschner, N., Welker, F., Dogandzic, T., Noyer, J., Bakhtiary, R. S., Allshouse, A. F., Smith, K. N., McPherron, S. P., Khatsenovich, A. M., Rybin, E. P., Gunchinsuren, B., & Hublin, J.-J. (2017). The Northern route of human dispersal in Asia: New evidence from the site of Tolbor 16, Mongolia. In Proceedings of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (PESHE) (6, pp. 221). ![]() | |
MacPhee, R., Welker, F., Thomas, J., Brace, S., Cappellini, E., Turvey, S., Barnes, I., Reguero, M., Gelfo, J., & Kramarz, A. (2014). Barcoding the dead: Ancient protein sequencing resolves litoptern and notoungulate superordinal affinities. In ( BibTeX Endnote |
Talks
Welker, F., MacPhee, R., Barnes, I., Cappellini, E., Hublin, J.-J., & Collins, M. (2014).Authentication of de novo MS/MS collagen sequencing of archaeological and modern samples. Talk presented at The 6th International Symposium on Biomolecular Archeology ISBA 6. Basel. 2014-08-27 - 2014-08-30. BibTeX Endnote |
Thesis
Welker, F. (2017). The palaeoproteomic identification of pleistocene hominin skeletal remains: Towards a biological understanding of the middle to upper palaeolithic transition. PhD Thesis, Universiteit, Leiden. BibTeX Endnote |