Katerina Guschanski
Researcher at Department of Ecology and Genetics; Animal Ecology
- Mobile phone:
- +46 73 892 21 97
- E-mail:
- katerina.guschanski@ebc.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Evolutionsbiologiskt centrum (EBC)
Norbyvägen 18 D - Postal address:
- Norbyvägen 18 D
752 36 UPPSALA
Short presentation
We are interested in understanding evolutionary processes that lead to biological diversity within and among populations and species. Focusing on nonhuman primates, we study population dynamics, speciation, adaptation and character trait evolution by combining genetic and genomic tools with ecological, morphological and climatic data.
Visit our group homepage:
http://www.ieg.uu.se/animal-ecology/Research+groups/guschanski-lab
Biography
2014-present Assistant Professor, EBC, Uppsala University
2010-2014 Post-Doc, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
2009-2010 Post-Doc, Imperial College London, UK
2005-2009 PhD at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Publications
Recent publications
Part of Molecular Ecology Resources, 2025
- DOI for Host Traits Impact the Outcome of Metagenomic Library Preparation From Dental Calculus Samples Across Diverse Mammals
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Part of Genome Biology, 2025
- DOI for Holotype genome of the lesula provides insights into demography and evolution of a threatened primate lineage
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Part of Quaternary Science Reviews, 2025
- DOI for Metagenomic insights into the diet and past Kolyma Lowland habitat from the intestinal content of a Late Pleistocene steppe bison
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Avoidable false PSMC population size peaks occur across numerous studies
Part of Current Biology, 2025
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Identification of constrained sequence elements across 239 primate genomes
Part of Nature, p. 735-742, 2024
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All publications
Articles in journal
Part of Molecular Ecology Resources, 2025
- DOI for Host Traits Impact the Outcome of Metagenomic Library Preparation From Dental Calculus Samples Across Diverse Mammals
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Part of Genome Biology, 2025
- DOI for Holotype genome of the lesula provides insights into demography and evolution of a threatened primate lineage
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Part of Quaternary Science Reviews, 2025
- DOI for Metagenomic insights into the diet and past Kolyma Lowland habitat from the intestinal content of a Late Pleistocene steppe bison
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Avoidable false PSMC population size peaks occur across numerous studies
Part of Current Biology, 2025
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Identification of constrained sequence elements across 239 primate genomes
Part of Nature, p. 735-742, 2024
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Y chromosome introgression between deeply divergent primate species
Part of Nature Communications, 2024
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Part of BMC Ecology and Evolution, 2024
- DOI for Comparative genomic analyses provide new insights into evolutionary history and conservation genomics of gorillas
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Screening great ape museum specimens for DNA viruses
Part of Scientific Reports, 2024
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Ancient reindeer mitogenomes reveal island-hopping colonisation of the Arctic archipelagos
Part of Scientific Reports, 2024
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The landscape of tolerated genetic variation in humans and primates
Part of Science, 2023
Isolated Grauer's gorilla populations differ in diet and gut microbiome
Part of Molecular Ecology, p. 6523-6542, 2023
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Complex Evolutionary History With Extensive Ancestral Gene Flow in an African Primate Radiation
Part of Molecular biology and evolution, 2023
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A global catalog of whole-genome diversity from 233 primate species
Part of Science, p. 906-913, 2023
Ghost admixture in eastern gorillas
Part of Nature Ecology & Evolution, p. 1503-1514, 2023
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Part of Molecular Ecology, p. 4208-4223, 2022
- DOI for Genomic analyses show extremely perilous conservation status of African and Asiatic cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus)
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Ecology, Not Host Phylogeny, Shapes the Oral Microbiome in Closely Related Species
Part of Molecular biology and evolution, 2022
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The complex Y-chromosomal history of gorillas
Part of American Journal of Primatology, 2022
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Population genomics of the critically endangered kakapo
Part of Cell Genomics, 2021
The oral microbiota of wild bears in Sweden reflects the history of antibiotic use by humans
Part of Current Biology, p. 4650-4658000000, 2021
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Part of Nature Communications, 2021
- DOI for Genomic insights into the conservation status of the world's last remaining Sumatran rhinoceros populations
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The evolution and changing ecology of the African hominid oral microbiome
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021
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Part of Molecular biology and evolution, p. 183-194, 2020
- DOI for The genome of the endangered dryas monkey provides new insights into the evolutionary history of the vervets
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Inference of natural selection from ancient DNA
Part of Evolution Letters, p. 94-108, 2020
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Dental Calculus as a Tool to Study the Evolution of the Mammalian Oral Microbiome
Part of Molecular biology and evolution, p. 3003-3022, 2020
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Index hopping on the Illumina HiseqX platform and its consequences for ancient DNA studies
Part of Molecular Ecology Resources, p. 1171-1181, 2020
Part of Molecular Ecology, p. 484-502, 2019
- DOI for Host-derived population genomics data provides insights into bacterial and diatom composition of the killer whale skin
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Behavioral responses around conspecific corpses in adult eastern gorillas (Gorilla beringei spp.)
Part of PeerJ, 2019
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Historical Genomes Reveal the Genomic Consequences of Recent Population Decline in Eastern Gorillas
Part of Current Biology, p. 165-170000000, 2019
Part of Primates, p. 133-142, 2019
- DOI for Dispersal and reproductive careers of male mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda
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Part of Scientific Reports, 2018
- DOI for Significant loss of mitochondrial diversity within the last century due to extinction of peripheral populations in eastern gorillas
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Part of American Journal of Physical Anthropology, p. 565-575, 2018
The evolution of duplicate gene expression in mammalian organs
Part of Genome Research, p. 1461-1474, 2017
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Whole mitochondrial genome capture from faecal samples and museum-preserved specimens
Part of Molecular Ecology Resources, 2017
Phylogeny of the jacchus group of Callithrix marmosets based on complete mitochondrial genomes
Part of American Journal of Physical Anthropology, p. 157-169, 2017
Part of American Journal of Primatology, 2017
Recent divergences and size decreases of eastern gorilla populations
Part of Biology Letters, 2014
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Birth and expression evolution of mammalian microRNA genes
Part of Genome Research, p. 34-45, 2013
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Next-Generation Museomics Disentangles One of the Largest Primate Radiations
Part of Systematic Biology, p. 539-554, 2013
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Temporal Patterns of Nucleotide Misincorporations and DNA Fragmentation in Ancient DNA
Part of PLOS ONE, 2012
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Historical sampling reveals dramatic demographic changes in western gorilla populations
Part of BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2011
Part of Molecular Ecology Resources, p. 28-36, 2009
Part of Biological Conservation, p. 290-300, 2009
Using genetics to understand the dynamics of wild primate populations
Part of Primates, p. 105-120, 2009
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Females Shape the Genetic Structure of a Gorilla Population
Part of Current Biology, p. 1809-1814, 2008
Inducible immune proteins in the dampwood termite Zootermopsis angusticollis
Part of The Science of Nature, p. 25-33, 2007
Part of Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, p. 309-327, 2007
Part of Conservation Genetics, p. 809-821, 2007
Articles, review/survey
How genomics can help biodiversity conservation
Part of Trends in Genetics, p. 545-559, 2023
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Chapters in book
Recent Loss of Genetic Diversity in Eastern Gorillas
Part of eLS, Wiley-Blackwell, 2020