Ancient DNA from European early neolithic farmers reveals their near eastern affinities. by Wolfgang Haak, Oleg Balanovsky, Juan J Sanchez, Sergey Koshel, Valery Zaporozhchenko, Christina J Adler, Clio S I Der Sarkissian, Guido Brandt, Carolin Schwarz, Nicole Nicklisch, Veit Dresely, Barbara Fritsch, Elena Balanovska, Richard Villems, Harald Meller, Kurt W Alt, Alan Cooper, Members of the Genographic Consortium

“…To date, inferences about the genetic make up of past populations have mostly been drawn from studies of modern-day Eurasian populations, but increasingly ancient DNA studies offer a direct view of the genetic past. …”
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Mitochondrial Genomes from New Zealand’s Extinct Adzebills (Aves: Aptornithidae: <i>Aptornis</i>) Support a Sister-Taxon Relationship with the Afro-Madagascan Sarothruridae by Alexander P. Boast, Brendan Chapman, Michael B. Herrera, Trevor H. Worthy, R. Paul Scofield, Alan J. D. Tennyson, Peter Houde, Michael Bunce, Alan Cooper, Kieren J. Mitchell

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A new home for microbes by Raphael Eisenhofer, Alan Cooper

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Mitogenomes Reveal Two Major Influxes of Papuan Ancestry across Wallacea Following the Last Glacial Maximum and Austronesian Contact by Gludhug A. Purnomo, Kieren J. Mitchell, Sue O’Connor, Shimona Kealy, Leonard Taufik, Sophie Schiller, Adam Rohrlach, Alan Cooper, Bastien Llamas, Herawati Sudoyo, João C. Teixeira, Raymond Tobler

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Genotyping Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms Using Different Molecular Beacon Multiplexed within a Suspended Core Optical Fiber by Linh Viet Nguyen, Sara Giannetti, Stephen Warren-Smith, Alan Cooper, Stefano Selleri, Annamaria Cucinotta, Tanya Monro

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Mitochondrial genome sequencing in Mesolithic North East Europe Unearths a new sub-clade within the broadly distributed human haplogroup C1. by Clio Der Sarkissian, Paul Brotherton, Oleg Balanovsky, Jennifer E L Templeton, Bastien Llamas, Julien Soubrier, Vyacheslav Moiseyev, Valery Khartanovich, Alan Cooper, Wolfgang Haak, Genographic Consortium

“…The human mitochondrial haplogroup C1 has a broad global distribution but is extremely rare in Europe today. Recent ancient DNA evidence has demonstrated its presence in European Mesolithic individuals. …”
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Recovery of chloroplast genomes from medieval millet grains excavated from the Areni-1 cave in southern Armenia by Stephen M. Richards, Leiting Li, James Breen, Nelli Hovhannisyan, Oscar Estrada, Boris Gasparyan, Matthew Gilliham, Alexia Smith, Alan Cooper, Heng Zhang

“…To investigate the demographic and evolutionary history of the Areni-1 millet, we used ancient DNA extraction, hybridization capture enrichment, and high throughput sequencing to assemble three chloroplast genomes from the medieval grains and then compared these sequences to 50 modern P. miliaceum chloroplast genomes. …”
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