Complete genomes of two extinct New Zealand passerines show responses to climate fluctuations but no evidence for genomic erosion prior to extinction

The Genomic Footprints of the Fall and Recovery of the Crested Ibis

(2019) Shaohong Feng et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Genomic Analysis of Demographic History and Ecological Niche Modeling in the Endangered Sumatran Rhinoceros Dicerorhinus sumatrensis

(2018) Herman L. Mays et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Full Mitogenomes in the Critically Endangered Kākāpō Reveal Major Post-Glacial and Anthropogenic Effects on Neutral Genetic Diversity

(2018) Nicolas Dussex et al.   Genes

Historical Genomes Reveal the Genomic Consequences of Recent Population Decline in Eastern Gorillas

(2018) Tom van der Valk et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Excess of genomic defects in a woolly mammoth on Wrangel island

(2017) Rebekah L. Rogers et al.   PLoS Genetics

Direct estimate of the rate of germline mutation in a bird

(2016) Linnéa Smeds et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

European Colonization, Not Polynesian Arrival, Impacted Population Size and Genetic Diversity in the Critically Endangered New Zealand Kākāpō

(2016) Laura M. Bergner et al.   JOURNAL OF HEREDITY

PSMC analysis of effective population sizes in molecular ecology and its application to black-and-whiteFicedulaflycatchers

(2016) Krystyna Nadachowska-Brzyska et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The Importance of Islands for the Protection of Biological and Linguistic Diversity

(2015) Bernie R. Tershy et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Complete Genomes Reveal Signatures of Demographic and Genetic Declines in the Woolly Mammoth

(2015) Eleftheria Palkopoulou et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Temporal Dynamics of Avian Populations during Pleistocene Revealed by Whole-Genome Sequences

(2015) Krystyna Nadachowska-Brzyska et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

On the importance of being structured: instantaneous coalescence rates and human evolution—lessons for ancestral population size inference?

(2015) O Mazet et al.   HEREDITY

MHC variation reflects the bottleneck histories of New Zealand passerines

(2015) Jolene T. Sutton et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Ancient and Contemporary DNA Reveal a Pre-Human Decline but No Population Bottleneck Associated with Recent Human Persecution in the Kea (Nestor notabilis)

(2015) Nicolas Dussex et al.   PLoS One

Abrupt warming events drove Late Pleistocene Holarctic megafaunal turnover

(2015) A. Cooper et al.   SCIENCE

Defaunation in the Anthropocene

(2014) R. Dirzo et al.   SCIENCE

Comparative genomics reveals insights into avian genome evolution and adaptation

(2014) G. Zhang et al.   SCIENCE

An extremely low-density human population exterminated New Zealand moa

(2014) Richard N. Holdaway et al.   Nature Communications

Genomic Patterns of Homozygosity in Worldwide Human Populations

(2012) Trevor J. Pemberton et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Setting the stage – Building and working in an ancient DNA laboratory

(2011) Michael Knapp et al.   ANNALS OF ANATOMY-ANATOMISCHER ANZEIGER

Explaining fire-driven landscape transformation during the Initial Burning Period of New Zealand's prehistory

(2011) George L. W. Perry et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Inference of human population history from individual whole-genome sequences

(2011) Heng Li et al.   NATURE

Species-specific responses of Late Quaternary megafauna to climate and humans

(2011) Eline D. Lorenzen et al.   NATURE

Fast and accurate long-read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform

(2010) Heng Li et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

mlRho - a program for estimating the population mutation and recombination rates from shotgun-sequenced diploid genomes

(2010) BERNHARD HAUBOLD et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Rapid landscape transformation in South Island, New Zealand, following initial Polynesian settlement

(2010) D. B. McWethy et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rapid deforestation of South Island, New Zealand, by early Polynesian fires

(2009) David B. McWethy et al.   HOLOCENE

New Zealand phylogeography: evolution on a small continent

(2009) GRAHAM P. WALLIS et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The Molecular Ecology of the Extinct New Zealand Huia

(2009) David M. Lambert et al.   PLoS One

Dating the late prehistoric dispersal of Polynesians to New Zealand using the commensal Pacific rat

(2008) J. M. Wilmshurst et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Relict or colonizer? Extinction and range expansion of penguins in southern New Zealand

(2008) S. Boessenkool et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES