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Wild and domesticated animal abundance is associated with greater late-Holocene alpine plant diversity

The role of wild and domesticated animals on alpine ecosystems is unclear. Here, the authors use sedaDNA from 14 European alpine lakes to demonstrate a positive association between wild and domesticated animal and plant diversity through the past 14 thousand years.

Sandra Garcés-Pastor
Peter D. Heintzman
Inger Greve Alsos
ResearchOpen Access25 Apr 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-11
Neolithic pastoralism and plant community interactions at high altitudes of the Pyrenees, southern Europe

Continuous presence of domesticated animals at high altitudes in southern Europe starting 6500 years ago, and dominance of open landscapes since 4200 years before present is shown by sedimentary DNA dated between 12,200 and 1300 years before present.

Irene Julián-Posada
Graciela Gil-Romera
Penélope González-Sampériz
ResearchOpen Access24 Jan 2025
Communications Earth & Environment

Volume: 6, P: 1-10
Million-year-old DNA sheds light on the genomic history of mammoths

Siberian mammoth genomes from the Early and Middle Pleistocene subepochs reveal adaptive changes and a key hybridization event, highlighting the value of deep-time palaeogenomics for studies of speciation and long-term evolutionary trends.

Tom van der Valk
Patrícia Pečnerová
Love Dalén
Research17 Feb 2021
Nature

Volume: 591, P: 265-269
High resolution ancient sedimentary DNA shows that alpine plant diversity is associated with human land use and climate change

Here, the authors use sedimentary DNA, pollen, fungal spores, chironomids, and microcharcoal from an alpine lake core to reconstruct vegetation across 12,000 years. They find that vegetation responded to climate in the early Holocene, followed by a shift to human activity from 6000 years onward corresponding with an increase in deforestation and agropastoralism.

Sandra Garcés-Pastor
Eric Coissac
Inger Greve Alsos
ResearchOpen Access04 Nov 2022
Nature Communications

Volume: 13, P: 1-16
Identification and analysis of functional elements in 1% of the human genome by the ENCODE pilot project

The next step after sequencing a genome is to figure out how the cell actually uses it as an instruction manual. A large international consortium has examined 1% of the genome for what part is transcribed, where proteins are bound, what the chromatin structure looks like, and how the sequence compares to that of other organisms.

Ewan Birney
John A. Stamatoyannopoulos
Pieter J. de Jong
Research14 Jun 2007
Nature

Volume: 447, P: 799-816
Palaeogenomic inference of biodiversity dynamics across Quaternary timescales

This Review explores the utility of palaeogenomics for exploring past biodiversity trends and ecosystem responses to a changing world, including natural climate cycles and increasing human activity.

Amanda Lindahl
Laura S. Epp
David Díez del Molino
Reviews18 Mar 2025
Nature Reviews Biodiversity

Volume: 1, P: 233-247
Early Pleistocene enamel proteome from Dmanisi resolves Stephanorhinus phylogeny

Palaeoproteomic analysis of dental enamel from an Early Pleistocene Stephanorhinus resolves the phylogeny of Eurasian Rhinocerotidae, by enabling the reconstruction of molecular evolution beyond the limits of ancient DNA preservation.

Enrico Cappellini
Frido Welker
Eske Willerslev
Research11 Sept 2019
Nature

Volume: 574, P: 103-107
The genome of a Late Pleistocene human from a Clovis burial site in western Montana

The first individual genome from the Clovis culture is presented; the origins and genetic legacy of the people who made Clovis tools have been under debate, and evidence here suggests that the individual is more closely related to all Native American populations than to any others, refuting the hypothesis that the Clovis people arrived via European (Solutrean) migration to the Americas.

Morten Rasmussen
Sarah L. Anzick
Eske Willerslev
Research12 Feb 2014
Nature

Volume: 506, P: 225-229
Environmental palaeogenomic reconstruction of an Ice Age algal population

Lammers et al. use sedimentary ancient DNA to reconstruct palaeogenomes of Nannochloropsis. This study demonstrates the value of sedaDNA for palaeogenomic reconstructions and population genomic analysis.

Youri Lammers
Peter D. Heintzman
Inger Greve Alsos
ResearchOpen Access16 Feb 2021
Communications Biology

Volume: 4, P: 1-11
Community-curated and standardised metadata of published ancient metagenomic samples with AncientMetagenomeDir

James A. Fellows Yates
Aida Andrades Valtueña
Christina Warinner
ResearchOpen Access26 Jan 2021
Scientific Data

Volume: 8, P: 1-8

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Wild and domesticated animal abundance is associated with greater late-Holocene alpine plant diversity

Neolithic pastoralism and plant community interactions at high altitudes of the Pyrenees, southern Europe

Million-year-old DNA sheds light on the genomic history of mammoths

High resolution ancient sedimentary DNA shows that alpine plant diversity is associated with human land use and climate change

Identification and analysis of functional elements in 1% of the human genome by the ENCODE pilot project

Palaeogenomic inference of biodiversity dynamics across Quaternary timescales

Early Pleistocene enamel proteome from Dmanisi resolves Stephanorhinus phylogeny

The genome of a Late Pleistocene human from a Clovis burial site in western Montana

Environmental palaeogenomic reconstruction of an Ice Age algal population

Community-curated and standardised metadata of published ancient metagenomic samples with AncientMetagenomeDir

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