Barcoding the largest animals on Earth: ongoing challenges and molecular solutions in the taxonomic identification of ancient cetaceans

BaitFisher: A Software Package for Multispecies Target DNA Enrichment Probe Design

(2016) Christoph Mayer et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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)

(2016) Viviane Slon et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Collagen Fingerprinting: A New Screening Technique for Radiocarbon Dating Ancient Bone

(2016) Virginia L. Harvey et al.   PLoS One

Identification of a new hominin bone from Denisova Cave, Siberia using collagen fingerprinting and mitochondrial DNA analysis

(2016) Samantha Brown et al.   Scientific Reports

Using ZooMS to identify fragmentary bone from the Late Middle/Early Upper Palaeolithic sequence of Les Cottés, France

(2015) Frido Welker et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Geographic and temporal dynamics of a global radiation and diversification in the killer whale

(2015) Phillip A. Morin et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Targeted capture in evolutionary and ecological genomics

(2015) Matthew R. Jones et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

A genomewide catalogue of single nucleotide polymorphisms in white-beaked and Atlantic white-sided dolphins

(2015) R. Fernández et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Interordinal gene capture, the phylogenetic position of Steller’s sea cow based on molecular and morphological data, and the macroevolutionary history of Sirenia

(2015) Mark S. Springer et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Ancient proteins resolve the evolutionary history of Darwin’s South American ungulates

(2015) Frido Welker et al.   NATURE

Ancient collagen reveals evolutionary history of the endemic South American 'ungulates'

(2015) M. Buckley   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Conservation archaeogenomics: ancient DNA and biodiversity in the Anthropocene

(2015) Courtney A. Hofman et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Bowhead whales, and not right whales, were the primary target of 16th- to 17th-century Basque Whalers in the Western North Atlantic

(2014) B.A. McLeod et al.   ARCTIC

The future of ancient DNA: Technical advances and conceptual shifts

(2014) Michael Hofreiter et al.   BIOESSAYS

Identification of collagen-based materials in cultural heritage

(2013) Daniel P. Kirby et al.   ANALYST

Searching for Scandinavians in pre-Viking Scotland: molecular fingerprinting of Early Medieval combs

(2013) Isabella C.C. von Holstein et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Species identification of archaeological marine mammals using collagen fingerprinting

(2013) M. Buckley et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Circulation of whale-bone artifacts in the northern Pyrenees during the late Upper Paleolithic

(2013) Jean-Marc Pétillon   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Targeted multiplex next-generation sequencing: advances in techniques of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequencing for population genomics

(2013) Brittany L. Hancock-Hanser et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

A mitochondrial genome sequence of a hominin from Sima de los Huesos

(2013) Matthias Meyer et al.   NATURE

Complete mitochondrial genome sequence of a Middle Pleistocene cave bear reconstructed from ultrashort DNA fragments

(2013) J. Dabney et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tracking niche variation over millennial timescales in sympatric killer whale lineages

(2013) A. D. Foote et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Occurrence of whale barnacles in Nerja Cave (Málaga, southern Spain): Indirect evidence of whale consumption by humans in the Upper Magdalenian

(2013) Esteban Álvarez-Fernández et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Complete Mitochondrial Genomes of Ancient Canids Suggest a European Origin of Domestic Dogs

(2013) O. Thalmann et al.   SCIENCE

Ancient DNA reveals that bowhead whale lineages survived Late Pleistocene climate change and habitat shifts

(2013) Andrew D. Foote et al.   Nature Communications

Baiji genomes reveal low genetic variability and new insights into secondary aquatic adaptations

(2013) Xuming Zhou et al.   Nature Communications

Low Diversity in the Mitogenome of Sperm Whales Revealed by Next-Generation Sequencing

(2012) Alana Alexander et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Minimally destructive DNA extraction from archaeological artefacts made from whale baleen

(2012) Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Making next-generation sequencing work for you: approaches and practical considerations for marker development and phylogenetics

(2012) Grant T. Godden et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Pre-Whaling Genetic Diversity and Population Ecology in Eastern Pacific Gray Whales: Insights from Ancient DNA and Stable Isotopes

(2012) S. Elizabeth Alter et al.   PLoS One

The half-life of DNA in bone: measuring decay kinetics in 158 dated fossils

(2012) M. E. Allentoft et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ancient DNA from marine mammals: Studying long-lived species over ecological and evolutionary timescales

(2011) Andrew D. Foote et al.   ANNALS OF ANATOMY-ANATOMISCHER ANZEIGER

Mitogenomic phylogenetic analyses of the Delphinidae with an emphasis on the Globicephalinae

(2011) Julia T Vilstrup et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Fish ’n chips: ZooMS peptide mass fingerprinting in a 96 well plate format to identify fish bone fragments

(2011) Kristine K. Richter et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Mitogenome Phylogenetics: The Impact of Using Single Regions and Partitioning Schemes on Topology, Substitution Rate and Divergence Time Estimation

(2011) Sebastián Duchêne et al.   PLoS One

Application and comparison of large-scale solution-based DNA capture-enrichment methods on ancient DNA

(2011) María C. Ávila-Arcos et al.   Scientific Reports

A novel and non-destructive approach for ZooMS analysis: ammonium bicarbonate buffer extraction

(2011) Nienke Laura van Doorn et al.   Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Integrating DNA barcode data and taxonomic practice: Determination, discovery, and description

(2010) Paul Z. Goldstein et al.   BIOESSAYS

Complete mitochondrial genome phylogeographic analysis of killer whales (Orcinus orca) indicates multiple species

(2010) P. A. Morin et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Genetic history of an archaic hominin group from Denisova Cave in Siberia

(2010) David Reich et al.   NATURE

Bones as biofuel: a review of whale bone composition with implications for deep-sea biology and palaeoanthropology

(2010) N. D. Higgs et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome

(2010) R. E. Green et al.   SCIENCE

Seven new dolphin mitochondrial genomes and a time-calibrated phylogeny of whales

(2009) Ye Xiong et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Distinguishing between archaeological sheep and goat bones using a single collagen peptide

(2009) Mike Buckley et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Species identification by analysis of bone collagen using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionisation time-of-flight mass spectrometry

(2009) Michael Buckley et al.   RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY

Targeted Retrieval and Analysis of Five Neandertal mtDNA Genomes

(2009) A. W. Briggs et al.   SCIENCE

Teeth and Bones as Sources of DNA for Genetic Diversity and Sex Identification of Commerson's Dolphins (Cephalorhynchus commersonii) from Tierra del Fuego, Argentina

(2009) Lida E. Pimper et al.   AQUATIC MAMMALS

Identification of ancient remains through genomic sequencing

(2008) M. J. Blow et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

First evidence of a whale-bone industry in the western European Upper Paleolithic: Magdalenian artifacts from Isturitz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France)

(2008) Jean-Marc Pétillon   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Preservation of ancient DNA in thermally damaged archaeological bone

(2008) Claudio Ottoni et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

The Effect of Inappropriate Calibration: Three Case Studies in Molecular Ecology

(2008) Simon Y. W. Ho et al.   PLoS One

Utilization of cetaceans in shell mounds from the southern coast of Brazil

(2007) Pedro Volkmer de Castilho   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL