Publications
2025
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) (advance online). Journal of Quaternary Science. |
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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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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. |
Open Access2024
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. |
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Pederzani, S., Britton, K., Trost, M., Fewlass, H., Bourgon, N., McCormack, J., Jaouen, K., Dietl, H., Döhle, H.-J., Kirchner, A., Lauer, T., Le Corre, M., McPherron, S. P., Meller, H., Mylopotamitaki, D., Orschiedt, J., Rougier, H., Ruebens, K., Schüler, T., Sinet-Mathiot, V., Smith, G. M., Talamo, S., Tütken, T., Welker, F., Zavala, E. I., Weiss, M., & Hublin, J.-J. (2024). Stable isotopes show Homo sapiens dispersed into cold steppes ~45,000 years ago at Ilsenhöhle in Ranis, Germany. Nature Ecology & Evolution. |
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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. |
2023
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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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. |
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Fewlass, H., Zavala, E. I., Fagault, Y., Tuna, T., Bard, E., Hublin, J.-J., Hajdinjak, M., & Wilczyński, J. (2023). Chronological and genetic analysis of an Upper Palaeolithic female infant burial from Borsuka Cave, Poland. iScience, 26(12): 108283. |
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Louis, M., Korlević, P., Nykänen, M., Archer, F., Berrow, S., Brownlow, A., Lorenzen, E. D., O’Brien, J., Post, K., Racimo, F., Rogan, E., Rosel, P. E., Sinding, M.-H.-S., van der Es, H., Wales, N., Fontaine, M. C., Gaggiotti, O. E., & Foote, A. D. (2023). Ancient dolphin genomes reveal rapid repeated adaptation to coastal waters. Nature Communications, 14: 4020. |
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Parker, C. E., Hiss, A. N., Spyrou, M. A., Neumann, G. U., Slavin, P., Nelson, E. A., Nagel, S., Dalidowski, X., Friederich, S., Krause, J., Herbig, A., Haak, W., & Bos, K. I. (2023). 14th century Yersinia pestis genomes support emergence of pestis secunda within Europe. PLoS Pathogens, 19(7): e1011404. |
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Soressi, M., & Hajdinjak, M. (2023). Ancient woman’s DNA recovered from a 20,000-year-old pendant [A summary of: Essel, E. et al. Ancient human DNA recovered from a Palaeolithic pendant. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06035-2 (2023)]. Nature, 618, 328-332. |
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Swali, P., Schulting, R., Gilardet, A., Kelly, M., Anastasiadou, K., Glocke, I., McCabe, J., Williams, M., Audsley, T., Loe, L., Fernández-Crespo, T., Ordoño, J., Walker, D., Clare, T., Cook, G., Hodkinson, I., Simpson, M., Read, S., Davy, T., Silva, M., Hajdinjak, M., Bergström, A., Booth, T., & Skoglund, P. (2023). Yersinia pestis genomes reveal plague in Britain 4000 years ago. Nature Communications, 14: 2930. |
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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. |
2022
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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Hopkins, R. J. A., Hajdinjak, M., Šefčáková, A., Comeskey, D., Devièse, T., & Higham, T. F. G. (2022). Single amino acid radiocarbon dating of two Neanderthals found at Šal’a (Slovakia). Radiocarbon, 64, 87-100. |
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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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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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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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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). |
2021
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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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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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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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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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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Hodgkins, J., Orr, C. M., Gravel-Miguel, C., Riel-Salvatore, J., Miller, C. E., Bondioli, L., Nava, A., Lugli, F., Talamo, S., Hajdinjak, M., Cristiani, E., Romandini, M., Meyer, D., Drohobytsky, D., Kuester, F., Pothier-Bouchard, G., Buckley, M., Mancini, L., Baruffaldi, F., Silvestrini, S., Arrighi, S., Keller, H. M., Griggs, R. B., Peresani, M., Strait, D. S., Benazzi, S., & Negrino, F. (2021). An infant burial from Arma Veirana in northwestern Italy provides insights into funerary practices and female personhood in early Mesolithic Europe. Scientific Reports, 11: 23735. |
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Martinón-Torres, M., d’Errico, F., Santos, E., Álvaro Gallo, A., Amano, N., Archer, W., Armitage, S. J., Arsuaga, J. L., de Castro, B., María, J., Blinkhorn, J., Crowther, A., Douka, K., Dubernet, S., Faulkner, P., Fernández-Colón, P., Kourampas, N., González García, J., Larreina, D., Le Bourdonnec, F.-X., MacLeod, G., Martín-Francés, L., Massilani, D., Mercader, J., Miller, J. M., Ndiema, E., Notario, B., Pitarch Martí, A., Prendergast, M. E., Queffelec, A., Rigaud, S., Roberts, P., Shoaee, M. J., Shipton, C., Simpson, I., Boivin, N., & Petraglia, M. D. (2021). Earliest known human burial in Africa. Nature, 593(7857), 95-100. |
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Picin, A., Benazzi, S., Blasco, R., Hajdinjak, M., Helgen, K. M., Hublin, J.-J., Rosell, J., Skoglund, P., Stringer, C., & Talamo, S. (2021). Comment on “A global environmental crisis 42,000 years ago”. Science, 374(6570): eabi8330. |
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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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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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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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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. |
2020
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Loosdrecht, M. S. v. d., Mannino, M. A., Talamo, S., Villalba-Mouco, V., Posth, C., Aron, F., Brandt, G., Burri, M., Freund, C., Radzeviciute, R., Stahl, R., Wissgott, A., Klausnitzer, L., Nagel, S., Meyer, M., Tagliacozzo, A., Piperno, M., Tusa, S., Collina, C., Schimmenti, V., Salvo, R. D., Prüfer, K., Hublin, J.-J., Schiffels, S., Jeong, C., Haak, W., & Krause, J. (2020). Genomic and dietary transitions during the Mesolithic and Early Neolithic in Sicily. bioRxiv, 986158. |
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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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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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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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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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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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Picin, A., Hajdinjak, M., Nowaczewska, W., Benazzi, S., Urbanowski, M., Marciszak, A., Fewlass, H., Socha, P., Stefaniak, K., Żarski, M., Wiśniewski, A., Hublin, J.-J., Nadachowski, A., & Talamo, S. (2020). New perspectives on Neanderthal dispersal and turnover from Stajnia Cave (Poland). Scientific Reports, 10: 14778. |
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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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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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Yang, M. A., Fan, X., Sun, B., Chen, C., Lang, J., Ko, Y.-C., Tsang, C.-h., Chiu, H., Wang, T., Bao, Q., Wu, X., Hajdinjak, M., Ko, A.-M.-S., Ding, M., Cao, P., Yang, R., Liu, F., Nickel, B., Dai, Q., Feng, X., Zhang, L., Sun, C., Ning, C., Zeng, W., Zhao, Y., Zhang, M., Gao, X., Cui, Y., Reich, D., Stoneking, M., & Fu, Q. (2020). Ancient DNA indicates human population shifts and admixture in northern and southern China. Science, 369(6501), 282-288. |
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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. |
2019
Bokelmann, L., Hajdinjak, M., Peyrégne, S., Brace, S., Essel, E., de Filippo, C., Glocke, I., Grote, S., Mafessoni, F., Nagel, S., Kelso, J., Prüfer, K., Vernot, B., Barnes, I., Pääbo, S., Meyer, M., & Stringer, C. (2019). A genetic analysis of the Gibraltar Neanderthals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(31), 15610-15615. |
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Dabney, J., & Meyer, M. (2019). Extraction of highly degraded DNA from ancient bones and teeth. In B. Shapiro, A. Barlow, P. D. Heintzman, M. Hofreiter, J. L. A. Paijmans, & A. E. R. Soares ( |
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Devièse, T., Massilani, D., Yi, S., Comeskey, D., Nagel, S., Nickel, B., Ribechini, E., Lee, J., Tseveendorj, D., Gunchinsuren, B., Meyer, M., Pääbo, S., & Higham, T. (2019). Compound-specific radiocarbon dating and mitochondrial DNA analysis of the Pleistocene hominin from Salkhit Mongolia. Nature Communications, 10(10): 274. |
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Douka, K., Slon, V., Jacobs, Z., Ramsey, C. B., Shunkov, M. V., Derevianko, A. P., Mafessoni, F., Kozlikin, M. B., Li, B., Grün, R., Comeskey, D., Devièse, T., Brown, S., Viola, B., Kinsley, L., Buckley, M., Meyer, M., Roberts, R. G., Pääbo, S., Kelso, J., & Higham, T. (2019). Age estimates for hominin fossils and the onset of the Upper Palaeolithic at Denisova Cave. Nature, 565(7741), 640-644. |
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Evans, B. J., Gansauge, M.-T., Stanley, E. L., Furman, B. L. S., Cauret, C. M. S., Ofori-Boateng, C., Gvoždík, V., Streicher, J. W., Greenbaum, E., Tinsley, R. C., Meyer, M., & Blackburn, D. C. (2019). Xenopus fraseri: Mr. Fraser, where did your frog come from? PLoS One, 14(9): e0220892. |
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Gansauge, M.-T., & Meyer, M. (2019). A method for single-stranded ancient DNA library preparation. In B. Shapiro, A. Barlow, P. D. Heintzman, M. Hofreiter, J. L. A. Paijmans, & A. E. R. Soares ( |
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Glocke, I. (2019). Improving methods for the extraction of DNA from ancient bones, teeth and sediments. PhD Thesis, Universität, Leipzig. |
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Korlević, P., & Meyer, M. (2019). Pretreatment: Removing DNA contamination from ancient bones and teeth using sodium hypochlorite and phosphate. In B. Shapiro, A. Barlow, P. D. Heintzman, M. Hofreiter, J. L. A. Paijmans, & A. E. R. Soares ( |
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Narasimhan, V. M., Patterson, N., Moorjani, P., Rohland, N., Bernardos, R., Mallick, S., Lazaridis, I., Nakatsuka, N., Olalde, I., Lipson, M., Kim, A. M., Olivieri, L. M., Coppa, A., Vidale, M., Mallory, J., Moiseyev, V., Kitov, E., Monge, J., Adamski, N., Alex, N., Broomandkhoshbacht, N., Candilio, F., Callan, K., Cheronet, O., Culleton, B. J., Ferry, M., Fernandes, D., Freilich, S., Gamarra, B., Gaudio, D., Hajdinjak, M., Harney, É., Harper, T. K., Keating, D., Lawson, A. M., Mah, M., Mandl, K., Michel, M., Novak, M., Oppenheimer, J., Rai, N., Sirak, K., Slon, V., Stewardson, K., Zalzala, F., Zhang, Z., Akhatov, G., Bagashev, A. N., Bagnera, A., Baitanayev, B., Bendezu-Sarmiento, J., Bissembaev, A. A., Bonora, G. L., Chargynov, T. T., Chikisheva, T., Dashkovskiy, P. K., Derevianko, A., Dobeš, M., Douka, K., Dubova, N., Duisengali, M. N., Enshin, D., Epimakhov, A., Fribus, A. V., Fuller, D., Goryachev, A., Gromov, A., Grushin, S. P., Hanks, B., Judd, M., Kazizov, E., Khokhlov, A., Krygin, A. P., Kupriyanova, E., Kuznetsov, P., Luiselli, D., Maksudov, F., Mamedov, A. M., Mamirov, T. B., Meiklejohn, C., Merrett, D. C., Micheli, R., Mochalov, O., Mustafokulov, S., Nayak, A., Pettener, D., Potts, R., Razhev, D., Rykun, M., Sarno, S., Savenkova, T. M., Sikhymbaeva, K., Slepchenko, S. M., Soltobaev, O. A., Stepanova, N., Svyatko, S., Tabaldiev, K., Teschler-Nicola, M., Tishkin, A. A., Tkachev, V. V., Vasilyev, S., Velemínský, P., Voyakin, D., Yermolayeva, A., Zahir, M., Zubkov, V. S., Zubova, A., Shinde, V. S., Lalueza-Fox, C., Meyer, M., Anthony, D., Boivin, N., Thangaraj, K., Kennett, D. J., Frachetti, M., Pinhasi, R., & Reich, D. (2019). The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia. Science, 365(6457): eaat7487. |
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Peyrégne, S., Slon, V., Mafessoni, F., de Filippo, C., Hajdinjak, M., Nagel, S., Nickel, B., Essel, E., Le Cabec, A., Wehrberger, K., Conard, N. J., Kind, C. J., Posth, C., Krause, J., Abrams, G., Bonjean, D., Di Modica, K., Toussaint, M., Kelso, J., Meyer, M., Pääbo, S., & Prüfer, K. (2019). Nuclear DNA from two early Neandertals reveals 80,000 years of genetic continuity in Europe. Science Advances, 5(6): eaaw5873. |
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Shinde, V., Narasimhan, V. M., Rohland, N., Mallick, S., Mah, M., Lipson, M., Nakatsuka, N., Adamski, N., Broomandkhoshbacht, N., Ferry, M., Lawson, A. M., Michel, M., Oppenheimer, J., Stewardson, K., Jadhav, N., Kim, Y. J., Chatterjee, M., Munshi, A., Panyam, A., Waghmare, P., Yadav, Y., Patel, H., Kaushik, A., Thangaraj, K., Meyer, M., Patterson, N., Rai, N., & Reich, D. (2019). An ancient Harappan genome lacks ancestry from Steppe pastoralists or Iranian farmers. Cell, 179(3), 729-735.e10. |
2018
de Filippo, C., Meyer, M., & Prüfer, K. (2018). Quantifying and reducing spurious alignments for the analysis of ultra-short ancient DNA sequences. BMC Biology, 16: 121. |
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Hajdinjak, M. (2018). The Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in Europe: Studies of ancient DNA from early modern humans and late Neandertals. PhD Thesis, Universität, Leipzig. |
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Hajdinjak, M., Fu, Q., Hübner, A., Petr, M., Mafessoni, F., Grote, S., Skoglund, P., Narasimham, V., Rougier, H., Crevecoeur, I., Semal, P., Soressi, M., Talamo, S., Hublin, J.-J., Gušic, I., Kucan, Ž., Rudan, P., Golovanova, L. V., Doronichev, V. B., Posth, C., Krause, J., Korlevic, P., Nagel, S., Nickel, B., Slatkin, M., Patterson, N., Reich, D., Prüfer, K., Meyer, M., Pääbo, S., & Kelso, J. (2018). Reconstructing the genetic history of late Neanderthals. Nature, 555(7698), 652-656. |
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Hernandez-Rodriguez, J., Arandjelovic, M., Lester, J. D., de Filippo, C., Weihmann, A., Meyer, M., Angedakin, S., Casals, F., Navarro, A., Vigilant, L., Kühl, H. S., Langergraber, K., Boesch, C., Hughes, D., & Marques-Bonet, T. (2018). The impact of endogenous content, replicates and pooling on genome capture from faecal samples. Molecular Ecology Resources, 18(2), 319-333. |
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Korlević, P. (2018). Development of sample preparation techniques for the molecular analysis of ancient skeletal remains. PhD Thesis, Universität, Leipzig. |
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Korlevic, P., Talamo, S., & Meyer, M. (2018). A combined method for DNA analysis and radiocarbon dating from a single sample. Scientific Reports, 8(1): 4127. |
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Loosdrecht, M. v. d., Bouzouggar, A. *., Humphrey, L., Posth, C., Barton, N., Ayinuer-Petri, A., Nickel, B., Nagel, S., Talbi, E. H., Hajraoui, M. A. E., Amzazi, S., Hublin, J.-J., Pääbo, S., Schiffels, S., Meyer, M., Haak, W., Jeong, C. *., & Krause, J. *. (2018). Pleistocene North African genomes link Near Eastern and sub-Saharan African human populations. Science, 360(6388), 548-552. |
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Rohland, N., Glocke, I., Ayinuer-Petri, A., & Meyer, M. (2018). Extraction of highly degraded DNA from ancient bones, teeth and sediments for high-throughput sequencing. Nature Protocols, 13, 2447-2461. |
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Slon, V., Mafessoni, F., Vernot, B., de Filippo, C., Grote, S., Viola, T. B., Hajdinjak, M., Peyrégne, S., Nagel, S., Brown, S., Douka, K., Higham, T., Kozlikin, M. B., Shunkov, M. V., Derevianko, A. P., Kelso, J., Meyer, M., Prüfer, K., & Pääbo, S. (2018). The genome of the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father. Nature, 561(7721), 113-116. |
2017
Devièse, T., Karavanic, I., Comeskey, D., Kubiak, C., Korlevic, P., Hajdinjak, M., Radovic, S., Procopio, N., Buckley, M., Pääbo, S., & Higham, T. (2017). Direct dating of Neanderthal remains from the site of Vindija Cave and implications for the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(40), 10606-10611. |
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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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Gansauge, M.-T. (2017). Method improvement for the preparation of ancient DNA seqencing libraries. PhD Thesis, Universität, Leipzig. |
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Gansauge, M.-T., Gerber, T., Glocke, I., Korlevic, P., Lippik, L., Nagel, S., Riehl, L. M., Schmidt, A., & Meyer, M. (2017). Single-stranded DNA library preparation from highly degraded DNA using T4 DNA ligase. Nucleic Acids Research, 45(10): e79. |
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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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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., & Hofreiter, M. (2017). Palaeogenomes of Eurasian straight-tusked elephants challenge the current view of elephant evolution. eLife, e25413. |
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Prüfer, K., Filippo, C. d., Grote, S., Mafessoni, F., Korlevic, P., Hajdinjak, M., Vernot, B., Skov, L., Hsieh, P., Peyrégne, S., Reher, D., Hopfe, C., Nagel, S., Maricic, T., Fu, Q., Theunert, C., Rogers, R., Skoglund, P., Chintalapati, M., Dannemann, M., Nelson, B. J., Key, F. M., Rudan, P., Kucan, Ž., Gušic, I., Golovanova, L. V., Doronichev, V. B., Patterson, N., Reich, D., Eichler, E. E., Slatkin, M., Schierup, M. H., Andrés, A. M., Kelso, J., Meyer, M., & Pääbo, S. (2017). A high-coverage Neandertal genome from Vindija Cave in Croatia. Science, 358(6363), 655-658. |
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Skoglund, P., Thompson, J. C., Prendergast, M. E., Mittnik, A., Sirak, K., Hajdinjak, M., Salie, T., Rohland, N., Mallick, S., Peltzer, A., Heinze, A., Olalde, I., Ferry, M., Harney, E., Michel, M., Stewardson, K., Cerezo-Román, J. I., Chiumia, C., Crowther, A., Gomani-Chindebvu, E., Gidna, A. O., Grillo, K. M., Helenius, I. T., Hellenthal, G., Helm, R., Horton, M., López, S., Mabulla, A. Z. P., Parkington, J., Shipton, C., Thomas, M. G., Tibesasa, R., Welling, M., Hayes, V. M., Kennett, D. J., Ramesar, R., Meyer, M., Pääbo, S., Patterson, N., Morris, A. G., Boivin, N., Pinhasi, R., Krause, J., & Reich, D. (2017). Reconstructing prehistoric African population structure. Cell, 171(1), 59-71.e21. |
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Slon, V., Hopfe, C., Weiß, C. L., Mafessoni, F., de la Rasilla, M., Lalueza-Fox, C., Rosas, A., Soressi, M., Knul, M. V., Miller, R., Stewart, J. R., Derevianko, A. P., Jacobs, Z., Li, B., Roberts, R. G., Shunkov, M. V., de Lumley, H., Perrenoud, C., Gušic, I., Kucan, Ž., Rudan, P., Ayinuer-Petri, A., Essel, E., Nagel, S., Nickel, B., Schmidt, A., Prüfer, K., Kelso, J., Burbano, H. A., Pääbo, S., & Meyer, M. (2017). Neandertal and Denisovan DNA from Pleistocene sediments. Science, 356(6338), 605-608. |
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Slon, V., Viola, B., Renaud, G., Gansauge, M.-T., Benazzi, S., Sawyer, S., Hublin, J.-J., Shunkov, M. V., Derevianko, A. P., Kelso, J., Prüfer, K., Meyer, M., & Pääbo, S. (2017). A fourth Denisovan individual. Science Advances, 3(7): e1700186. |
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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. |
2016
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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Fu, Q., Posth, C., Hajdinjak, M., Petr, M., Mallick, S., Fernandes, D., Furtwängler, A., Haak, W., Meyer, M., Mittnik, A., Nickel, B., Peltzer, A., Rohland, N., Slon, V., Talamo, S., Lazaridis, I., Lipson, M., Mathieson, I., Schiffels, S., Skoglund, P., Derevianko, A. P., Drozdov, N., Slavinsky, V., Tsybankov, A., Cremonesi, R. G., Mallegni, F., Gély, B., Vacca, E., Morales, M. R. G., Straus, L. G., Neugebauer-Maresch, C., Teschler-Nicola, M., Constantin, S., Moldovan, O. T., Benazzi, S., Peresani, M., Coppola, D., Lari, M., Ricci, S., Ronchitelli, A., Valentin, F., Thevenet, C., Wehrberger, K., Grigorescu, D., Rougier, H., Crevecoeur, I., Flas, D., Semal, P., Mannino, M. A., Cupillard, C., Bocherens, H., Conard, N. J., Harvati, K., Moiseyev, V., Drucker, D. G., Svoboda, J., Richards, M. P., Caramelli, D., Pinhasi, R., Kelso, J., Patterson, N., Krause, J., Pääbo, S., & Reich, D. (2016). The genetic history of Ice Age Europe. Nature, 534(7606), 200-205. |
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Kuhlwilm, M., Gronau, I., Hubisz, M. J., de Filippo, C., Prado-Martinez, J., Kircher, M., Fu, Q., Burbano, H. A., Lalueza-Fox, C., de la Rasilla, M., Rosas, A., Rudan, P., Brajkovic, D., Kucan, Ž., Gušic, I., Marques-Bonet, T., Andrés, A. M., Viola, B., Pääbo, S., Meyer, M., Siepel, A., & Castellano, S. (2016). Ancient gene flow from early modern humans into Eastern Neanderthals. Nature, 530(7591), 429-433. |
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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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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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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. |
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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. |
2015
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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Benazzi, S., Slon, V., Talamo, S., Negrino, F., Peresani, M., Bailey, S. E., Sawyer, S., Panetta, D., Vicino, G., Starnini, E., Mannino, M. A., Salvadori, P. A., Meyer, M., Pääbo, S., & Hublin, J.-J. (2015). The makers of the Protoaurignacian and implications for Neandertal extinction. Science, 348(6236), 793-796. |
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Fu, Q., Hajdinjak, M., Moldovan, O., Constantin, S., Mallick, S., Skoglund, P., Patterson, N., Rohland, N., Lazaridis, I., Nickel, B., Viola, B., Prüfer, K., Meyer, M., Kelso, J., Reich, D., & Pääbo, S. (2015). An early modern human from Romania with a recent Neanderthal ancestor. Nature, 524(7564), 216-219. |
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Haak, W., Lazaridis, I., Patterson, N., Rohland, N., Mallick, S., Llamas, B., Brandt, G., Nordenfelt, S., Harney, E., Stewardson, K., Fu, Q., Mittnik, A., Bánffy, E., Economou, C., Francken, M., Friederich, S., Pena, R. G., Hallgren, F., Khartanovich, V., Khokhlov, A., Kunst, M., Kuznetsov, P., Meller, H., Mochalov, O., Moiseyev, V., Nicklisch, N., Pichler, S. L., Risch, R., Guerra, M. A. R., Roth, C., Szécsényi-Nagy, A., Wahl, J., Meyer, M., Krause, J., Brown, D., Anthony, D., Cooper, A., Alt, K. W., & Reich, D. (2015). Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe. Nature, (522), 207-211. |
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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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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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Sawyer, S., Renaud, G., Viola, B., Hublin, J.-J., Gansauge, M.-T., Shunkov, M. V., Derevianko, A. P., Prüfer, K., Kelso, J., & Pääbo, S. (2015). Nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences from two Denisovan individuals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(51), 15696-15700. |
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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. |
2014
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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Fu, Q., Li, H., Moorjani, P., Jay, F., Slepchenko, S. M., Bondarev, A. A., Johnson, P. L. F., Ayinuer-Petri, A., Prüfer, K., de Filippo, C., Meyer, M., Zwyns, N., Salazar García, D. C., Kuzmin, Y. V., Keates, S. G., Kosintsev, P. A., Razhev, D. I., Richards, M. P., Peristov, N. V., Lachmann, M., Douka, K., Higham, T. F. G., Slatkin, M., Hublin, J.-J., Reich, D., Kelso, J., Viola, B., & Pääbo, S. (2014). Genome sequence of a 45,000-year-old modern human from western Siberia. Nature, 514(7523), 445-449. |
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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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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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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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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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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. |
2013
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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Dabney, J., Meyer, M., & Pääbo, S. (2013). Ancient DNA damage. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, 5(7): a012567. |
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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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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. |
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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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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. |
2012
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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Glocke, I. (2012). Sequenzierung von DNA aus sehr altem und stark degradiertem Probenmaterial. Master Thesis, Universität, Leipzig. |
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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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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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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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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 ( |
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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. |
2011
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. |
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Zavala, E. I. (2011). Reconstructing human history and prehistory using ancient DNA from sediments and skeletal remains. PhD Thesis, Universität, Leipzig. |
2010
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. |
2009
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. |
2008
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. |
2007
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. |
2006
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. |
2005
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. |