Old wild wolves: ancient DNA survey unveils population dynamics in Late Pleistocene and Holocene Italian remains by Marta Maria Ciucani, Davide Palumbo, Marco Galaverni, Patrizia Serventi, Elena Fabbri, Gloria Ravegnini, Sabrina Angelini, Elena Maini, Davide Persico, Romolo Caniglia, Elisabetta Cilli

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Ancient DNA re-opens the question of the phylogenetic position of the Sardinian pika Prolagus sardus (Wagner, 1829), an extinct lagomorph by Valerio Joe Utzeri, Elisabetta Cilli, Francesco Fontani, Daniel Zoboli, Massimiliano Orsini, Anisa Ribani, Adriana Latorre, Andrey A. Lissovsky, Gian Luigi Pillola, Samuele Bovo, Giorgio Gruppioni, Donata Luiselli, Luca Fontanesi

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Insights into Punic genetic signatures in the southern necropolis of Tharros (Sardinia) by Stefania Sarno, Elisabetta Cilli, Patrizia Serventi, Sara De Fanti, Andrea Corona, Francesco Fontani, Mirko Traversari, Gianmarco Ferri, Anna Chiara Fariselli, Donata Luiselli

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Museomics Provides Insights into Conservation and Education: The Instance of an African Lion Specimen from the Museum of Zoology “Pietro Doderlein” by Elisabetta Cilli, Francesco Fontani, Marta Maria Ciucani, Marcella Pizzuto, Pierangelo Di Benedetto, Sara De Fanti, Thomas Mignani, Carla Bini, Rocco Iacovera, Susi Pelotti, Filippo Spadola, Donata Luiselli, Sabrina Lo Brutto

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First Bronze Age Human Mitogenomes from Calabria (Grotta Della Monaca, Southern Italy) by Francesco Fontani, Elisabetta Cilli, Fabiola Arena, Stefania Sarno, Alessandra Modi, Sara De Fanti, Adam Jon Andrews, Adriana Latorre, Paolo Abondio, Felice Larocca, Martina Lari, David Caramelli, Emanuela Gualdi-Russo, Donata Luiselli

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Population Dynamics in Italian Canids between the Late Pleistocene and Bronze Age by Kyriaki Koupadi, Francesco Fontani, Marta Maria Ciucani, Elena Maini, Sara De Fanti, Maurizio Cattani, Antonio Curci, Gabriele Nenzioni, Paolo Reggiani, Adam J. Andrews, Stefania Sarno, Carla Bini, Susi Pelotti, Romolo Caniglia, Donata Luiselli, Elisabetta Cilli

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Iron Age Italic population genetics: the Piceni from Novilara (8th–7th century BC) by Patrizia Serventi, Chiara Panicucci, Roberta Bodega, Sara De Fanti, Stefania Sarno, Manuel Fondevila Alvarez, Francesca Brisighelli, Beniamino Trombetta, Paolo Anagnostou, Gianmarco Ferri, Antonino Vazzana, Chiara Delpino, Giorgio Gruppioni, Donata Luiselli, Elisabetta Cilli

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Human Pangenomics: Promises and Challenges of a Distributed Genomic Reference by Paolo Abondio, Elisabetta Cilli, Donata Luiselli

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Checklist of the Mammal Collection Preserved at the University of Palermo under the Framework of the National Biodiversity Future Center by Sabrina Lo Brutto, Antonina Badalucco, Rocco Iacovera, Elisabetta Cilli, Maurizio Sarà

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Inferring Signatures of Positive Selection in Whole-Genome Sequencing Data: An Overview of Haplotype-Based Methods by Paolo Abondio, Elisabetta Cilli, Donata Luiselli

“…Moreover, considerations are provided around the application of these statistics to different species, their suitability for ancient DNA, and the usefulness of discovering variants under selection for biomedicine and public health in an evolutionary medicine framework.…”
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The extinct Sicilian wolf shows a complex history of isolation and admixture with ancient dogs by Marta Maria Ciucani, Jazmín Ramos-Madrigal, Germán Hernández-Alonso, Alberto Carmagnini, Sabhrina Gita Aninta, Xin Sun, Camilla Hjorth Scharff-Olsen, Liam Thomas Lanigan, Ilaria Fracasso, Cecilie G. Clausen, Jouni Aspi, Ilpo Kojola, Laima Baltrūnaitė, Linas Balčiauskas, Jane Moore, Mikael Åkesson, Urmas Saarma, Maris Hindrikson, Pavel Hulva, Barbora Černá Bolfíková, Carsten Nowak, Raquel Godinho, Steve Smith, Ladislav Paule, Sabina Nowak, Robert W. Mysłajek, Sabrina Lo Brutto, Paolo Ciucci, Luigi Boitani, Cristiano Vernesi, Hans K. Stenøien, Oliver Smith, Laurent Frantz, Lorenzo Rossi, Francesco Maria Angelici, Elisabetta Cilli, Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Shyam Gopalakrishnan

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