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Variation in the number of radiocarbon (14C) dates does not equal change in Neolithic population size over time

Högberg, Anders; Brink, Kristian; Brorsson, Torbjörn; Malmström, Helena et al.

Part of Journal of Archaeological Science, 2025

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Herders from the Green Sahara

Fortes-Lima, Cesar A.; Cerny, Viktor; Schlebusch, Carina

Part of American Scientist, p. 232-239, 2025

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Temporal genomic change in the Scandinavian Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus)

von Seth, Johanna; Larsson, Petter; Hasselgren, Malin; Dussex, Nicolas et al.

Part of Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2025

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Gone With the Wind: Exploring A Vanished Rock Dove, Columba Livia, Hybrid Zone In The Sahara Desert

Hernandez-Alonso, German; van Grouw, Hein; Farahani, Motahare F.; Günther, Torsten

Part of Ecology and Evolution, 2025

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Reconstructing infant feeding practices through stable isotope analysis: applying intrabone sampling to a medieval-early modern Estonian dataset

Morrone, Alessandra; Piombino-Mascali, Dario; Saupe, Tina; Sepp, Holar et al.

Part of Journal of Archaeological Science, 2025

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Interplay between large low-recombining regions and pseudo-overdominance in a plant genome

Salson, Marine; Duranton, Maud; Huynh, Stella; Mariac, Cédric et al.

Part of Nature Communications, 2025

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HLA diversity and signatures of selection in the Maniq, a nomadic hunter-gatherer population in Southern Thailand

Schaschl, Helmut; Herzog, Tobias; Oberreiter, Victoria; Kutanan, Wibhu et al.

Part of Immunogenetics, 2025

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Revised phylogeny of mouflon based on expanded sampling of mitogenomes

Mereu, Paolo; Pirastru, Monica; Morell Miranda, Pedro; Atag, Gozde et al.

Part of PLOS ONE, 2025

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Environmentally induced variation in sperm sRNAs is linked to gene expression and transposable elements in zebrafish offspring

Godden, Alice M.; Silva, Willian T. A. F.; Kiehl, Berrit; Jolly, Cecile et al.

Part of Heredity, p. 234-246, 2025

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Ancient DNA HLA typing reveals significant shifts in frequency in Europe since the Neolithic

Plascencia, Alan Godinez; Jakobsson, Mattias; Sanchez-Quinto, Federico

Part of Scientific Reports, 2025

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Genetic Origins of the Kiritimati Population from Central-Eastern Micronesia

Larena, Maximilian; Chowdhury, Afifa Enam; Kels, Ma Junaliah Tuazon; Tätte, Kai et al.

Part of Genome Biology and Evolution, 2025

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A Million Years of Mammoth Mitogenome Evolution

Chacon-Duque, J. Camilo; Thorpe, Jessica A. Thomas; Li, Wenxi; Dehasque, Marianne et al.

Part of Molecular biology and evolution, 2025

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The genomic legacy of aurochs hybridisation in ancient and modern Iberian cattle

Günther, Torsten; Chisausky, Jacob; Galindo-Pellicena, Ángeles M.; Iriarte, Eneko et al.

Part of eLIFE, 2025

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Analysis of the abundance of radiocarbon samples as count data

de Navascues, Miguel; Burgarella, Concetta; Jakobsson, Mattias

Part of Peer Community Journal, 2025

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Population history and admixture of the Fulani people from the Sahel

Fortes-Lima, Cesar A.; Diallo, Mame Y.; Janousek, Vaclav; Cemy, Viktor et al.

Part of American Journal of Human Genetics, p. 261-275, 2025

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Natural selection and adaptive traits in the Maniq, a nomadic hunter-gatherer society from Mainland Southeast Asia

Herzog, Tobias; Larena, Maximilian; Kutanan, Wibhu; Lukas, Helmut et al.

Part of Scientific Reports, 2025

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From the Treatment of the Body to the Places of the Dead

Tõrv, Mari; Peyroteo Stjerna, Rita

Part of Oxford Handbook of Mesolithic Europe, Oxford University Press, 2025

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Joint inference of adaptive and demographic history from temporal population genomic data

Pavinato, Vitor A. C.; De Mita, Stephane; Marin, Jean-Michel; de Navascues, Miguel

Part of Peer Community Journal, 2022

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Power and limits of selection genome scans on temporal data from a selfing population

de Navascués, Miguel; Becheler, Arnaud; Gay, Laurène; Ronfort, Joëlle et al.

Part of Peer Community Journal, 2021

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Repeated plague infections across six generations of Neolithic Farmers

Seersholm, Frederik Valeur; Sjögren, Karl-Göran; Koelman, Julia; Blank, Malou et al.

Part of Nature, p. 114-121, 2024

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DNA-analys av arkeologiska material

Fraser, Magdalena; Malmström, Helena; Svensson, Emma; Storå, Jan

Part of Arkeologi på Gotland 2, p. 43-52, Uppsala universitet, 2017

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A Tale of Two Lakes: Divergent Evolutionary Trajectories of Two Daphnia Populations Experiencing Distinct Environments

Wersebe, Matthew J.; Günther, Torsten; Morton, Philip K.; Weider, Lawrence J. et al.

Part of Ecology and Evolution, 2024

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Forensic autosomal and gonosomal short tandem repeat marker reference database for populations in Burkina Faso

Zeye, Moutanou Modeste Judes; Ouedraogo, Serge Yannick; Bado, Prosper; Zoure, Abdou Azaque et al.

Part of Scientific Reports, 2024

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Zuurberg (Eastern Cape, South Africa) revisited: human remains, dating and archaeological findings

Steyn, Maryna; Jolly, Cecile; Schlebusch, Carina; Meyer, Anja

Part of Azania, p. 294-314, 2024

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The Population History of Domestic Sheep Revealed by Paleogenomes

Kaptan, Damla; Atag, Gözde; Vural, Kivilcim Basak; Morell Miranda, Pedro et al.

Part of Molecular biology and evolution, 2024

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The Oxford Handbook of Mesolithic Europe

Nilsson Stutz, Liv; Peyroteo Stjerna, Rita; Tõrv, Mari

Oxford University Press, 2025

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BaTwa populations from Zambia retain ancestry of past hunter-gatherer groups

Breton, Gwenna; Barham, Lawrence; Mudenda, George; Soodyall, Himla et al.

Part of Nature Communications, 2024

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An Improved Chromosome-scale Genome Assembly and Population Genetics resource for Populus tremula

Robinson, Kathryn M.; Schiffthaler, Bastian; Liu, Hui; Rydman, Sara M. et al.

Part of Physiologia Plantarum, 2024

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Sex estimation using long bones in the largest burial site of the Copper Age: Linear discriminant analysis and random forest

Díaz-Navarro, S.; Díez-Hermano, S.; Rojo-Guerra, M. A.; Maurandi, J. Lomba et al.

Part of Journal of Archaeological Science, 2024

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Wide-scale Geographical Analysis of Genetic Ancestry in the South African Coloured Population

Lankheet, Imke; Hammarén, Rickard; Alva Caballero, Lucia Ximena; Larena, Maximilian et al.

Part of BMC Biology, 2025

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Investigating African population structure using genomes and proteomes

Lankheet, Imke Tara

2024

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Maternal histories of sub-Saharan Africa revealed through sequencing of complete mitochondrial genomes

Lankheet, Imke; Chowdhury, Afifa; Tellgren-Roth, Christian; Jolly, Cécile et al.

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Y chromosome diversity and geographical patterns in sub-Saharan Africa

Lankheet, Imke; Chowdhury, Afifa; Jolly, Cécile; Green, Susanne T. et al.

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Ancient proteins and the deepest population divergence among modern human populations

Lankheet, Imke; Oskolkov, Nikolay; Mirabello, Claudio; Mtetwa, Ezekia et al.

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READv2: advanced and user-friendly detection of biological relatedness in archaeogenomics

Alacamli, Erkin; Naidoo, Thijessen; Guler, Merve N.; Saglican, Ekin et al.

Part of Genome Biology, 2024

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Human genetic structure in Northwest France provides new insights into West European historical demography

Alves, Isabel; Giemza, Joanna; Blum, Michael G. B.; Bernhardsson, Carolina et al.

Part of Nature Communications, 2024

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Population Genomic History of the Endangered Anatolian and Cyprian Mouflons in Relation to Worldwide Wild, Feral, and Domestic Sheep Lineages

Atag, Gözde; Kaptan, Damla; Yüncü, Eren; Vural, Kivilcim Basak et al.

Part of Genome Biology and Evolution, 2024

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Whole-genome resequencing facilitates the development of a 50K single nucleotide polymorphism genotyping array for Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) and its transferability to other pine species

Barcala, Maximiliano Estravis; van der Valk, Tom; Chen, Zhiqiang; Funda, Tomas et al.

Part of The Plant Journal, p. 944-955, 2024

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Germline mutation rate is elevated in young and old parents in Caenorhabditis remanei

Chen, Hwei-yen; Krieg, Therese; Mautz, Brian; Jolly, Cecile et al.

Part of Evolution Letters, p. 478-489, 2023

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The genetic changes that shaped Neandertals, Denisovans, and modern humans

Zeberg, Hugo; Jakobsson, Mattias; Paabo, Svante

Part of Cell, p. 1047-1058, 2024

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Identification of microbial pathogens in Neolithic Scandinavian humans

Bergfeldt, Nora; Kirdök, Emrah; Oskolkov, Nikolay; Mirabello, Claudio et al.

Part of Scientific Reports, 2024

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Strong Purifying Selection in Haploid Tissue-Specific Genes of Scots Pine Supports the Masking Theory

Cervantes, Sandra; Kesalähti, Robert; Kumpula, Timo A.; Mattila, Tiina M. et al.

Part of Molecular biology and evolution, 2023

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Eurasian back-migration into Northeast Africa was a complex and multifaceted process

Hammarén, Rickard; Goldstein, Steven T.; Schlebusch, Carina

Part of PLOS ONE, 2023

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The genetic legacy of the expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples in Africa

Fortes-Lima, Cesar A.; Burgarella, Concetta; Hammarén, Rickard; Eriksson, Anders et al.

Part of Nature, p. 540-547, 2024

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Transformation of the Scandinavian hunter-fisher-gatherer population throughout the Mesolithic

Kashuba, Natalija; Bernhardsson, Carolina; Boethius, Adam; Fraser, Magdalena et al.

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Metagenomic analysis of Mesolithic chewed pitch reveals poor oral health among stone age individuals

Kirdök, Emrah; Kashuba, Natalija; Damlien, Hege; Manninen, Mikael A. et al.

Part of Scientific Reports, 2024

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Going local with ancient DNA: A review of human histories from regional perspectives

Avila-Arcos, Maria C.; Raghavan, Maanasa; Schlebusch, Carina

Part of Science, p. 53-58, 2023

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Polymorphic parasitic larvae cooperate to build swimming colonies luring hosts

Krupenko, Darya; Miroliubov, Aleksei; Kryukov, Emil; Faure, Louis et al.

Part of Current Biology, p. 4524-4531, 2023

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The ancestry and geographical origins of St Helena's liberated Africans

Sandoval-Velasco, Marcela; Jagadeesan, Anuradha; Ramos-Madrigal, Jazmin; Avila-Arcos, Maria C. et al.

Part of American Journal of Human Genetics, p. 1590-1599, 2023

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Ancient Sheep Genomes reveal four Millennia of North European Short-Tailed Sheep in the Baltic Sea region

Larsson, Martin N. A.; Morell Miranda, Pedro; Pan, Li; Başak Vural, Kıvılcım et al.

Part of Genome Biology and Evolution, 2024

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