Using Ancient DNA Analysis and Radiocarbon Dating to Determine the Provenance of an Unusual Whaling Artifact by Caitlin Mudge, Rebecca Dallwitz, Bastien Llamas, Jeremy J. Austin

“…This study supports and extends previous research that applies ancient DNA and radiocarbon dating techniques to enhance the value of natural history collections, by identifying the species-of-origin and age of historical specimens.…”
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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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Spatio-temporal dynamics of pathogenic variants associated with monogenic disorders reconstructed with ancient DNA. by Draga Toncheva, Maria Marinova, Plamenka Borovska, Dimitar Serbezov

“…The geographic distribution and age of the ancient DNA samples with established pathogenic variants suggests multiple independent origin of these variants. …”
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Haplotype-based inference of recent effective population size in modern and ancient DNA samples by Romain Fournier, Zoi Tsangalidou, David Reich, Pier Francesco Palamara

“…The distribution of these IBD segments in a population may be used to reconstruct past demographic events such as effective population size variation, but accurate IBD detection is difficult in ancient DNA data and in underrepresented populations with limited reference data. …”
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Evaluation of lake sedimentary ancient DNA metabarcoding to assess fungal biodiversity in Arctic paleoecosystems by Peter Andreas Seeber, Barbara vonHippel, Hårvard Kauserud, Ulrike Löber, Kathleen Rosmarie Stoof‐Leichsenring, Ulrike Herzschuh, Laura S. Epp

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Sedimentary Ancient DNA Reveals Local Vegetation Changes Driven by Glacial Activity and Climate by Lucas D. Elliott, Dilli P. Rijal, Antony G. Brown, Jostein Bakke, Lasse Topstad, Peter D. Heintzman, Inger G. Alsos

“…We used a sedimentary ancient DNA (<i>sed</i>aDNA) metabarcoding dataset of 38 samples from a lake sediment core spanning 10,400 years using primers targeting the P6 loop of the <i>trn</i>L (UAA) intron. …”
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The Allen Ancient DNA Resource (AADR) a curated compendium of ancient human genomes by Swapan Mallick, Adam Micco, Matthew Mah, Harald Ringbauer, Iosif Lazaridis, Iñigo Olalde, Nick Patterson, David Reich

“…The AADR has gone through six public releases at the time of writing and review of this manuscript, and crossed the threshold of >10,000 individuals with published genome-wide ancient DNA data at the end of 2022. This note is intended as a citable descriptor of the AADR.…”
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Sedimentary ancient DNA: a new paleogenomic tool for reconstructing the history of marine ecosystems by Ngoc-Loi Nguyen, Dhanushka Devendra, Natalia Szymańska, Mattia Greco, Inès Barrenechea Angeles, Agnes K. M. Weiner, Jessica Louise Ray, Tristan Cordier, Stijn De Schepper, Jan Pawłowski, Joanna Pawłowska

“…Sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) offers a novel retrospective approach to reconstructing the history of marine ecosystems over geological timescales. …”
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Using ancient DNA to unravel taxonomic puzzles: the identity of Deuterodon pedri (Ostariophysi: Characidae) by Priscilla C. Silva, Maria C. Malabarba, Luiz R. Malabarba

“…As the morphology alone of the type material does not allow for an accurate identification, we used both morphological and ancient DNA (aDNA) methods to decisively establish the identity of D. pedri. …”
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A Case Study for the Recovery of Authentic Microbial Ancient DNA from Soil Samples by Vilma Pérez, Yichen Liu, Martha B. Hengst, Laura S. Weyrich

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Ancient DNA reveals phenological diversity of Coast Salish herring harvests over multiple centuries by Eleni L. Petrou, Robert Kopperl, Dana Lepofsky, Antonia T. Rodrigues, Dongya Yang, Madonna L. Moss, Camilla F. Speller, Lorenz Hauser

“…In this study, we investigated the relative contributions of genetically and phenologically distinct herring populations to Indigenous Peoples’ food systems over multiple centuries, using ancient DNA extracted from archaeological herring bones. …”
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Early human impact on lake cyanobacteria revealed by a Holocene record of sedimentary ancient DNA by Ebuka Canisius Nwosu, Achim Brauer, Marie-Eve Monchamp, Sylvia Pinkerneil, Alexander Bartholomäus, Martin Theuerkauf, Jens-Peter Schmidt, Kathleen R. Stoof-Leichsenring, Theresa Wietelmann, Jerome Kaiser, Dirk Wagner, Susanne Liebner

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Ancient DNA from the Asiatic Wild Dog (<i>Cuon alpinus</i>) from Europe by Ulrike H. Taron, Johanna L. A. Paijmans, Axel Barlow, Michaela Preick, Arati Iyengar, Virgil Drăgușin, Ștefan Vasile, Adrian Marciszak, Martina Roblíčková, Michael Hofreiter

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Ancient DNA of the Don-Hares Assumes the Existence of Two Distinct Mitochondrial Clades in Northeast Asia by Fedor Sharko, Natalia Slobodova, Eugenia Boulygina, Maksim Cheprasov, Maria Gladysheva-Azgari, Svetlana Tsygankova, Sergey Rastorguev, Gavril Novgorodov, Gennady Boeskorov, Lena Grigorieva, Woo Suk Hwang, Alexei Tikhonov, Artem Nedoluzhko

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Benchmarking software tools for trimming adapters and merging next-generation sequencing data for ancient DNA by Annette Lien, Leonardo Pestana Legori, Louis Kraft, Peter Wad Sackett, Gabriel Renaud

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The problem with petrous? a consideration of the potential biases in the utilisation of pars petrosa for ancient DNA analysis by Charlton, S, Booth, T, Barnes, I

“…Advances in NGS sequencing technologies, improved laboratory protocols and new bioinformatic workflows have seen huge increases in ancient DNA (aDNA) research on archaeological materials. …”

"Ancient" protocols for the crime scene? Similarities and differences between forensic genetics and ancient DNA analysis. by Capelli, C, Tschentscher, F, Pascali, V

“…We provide a short overview on some current issues in the fields of forensic genetics and ancient DNA (aDNA) analysis. We discuss about the existence of the possible points of contact between the two disciplines, in terms of open problems and the inherent approach to their solution. …”

Ancient DNA suggests anaemia and low bone mineral density as the cause for porotic hyperostosis in ancient individuals by Manuel Ferrando-Bernal

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Ancient DNA reveals the lost domestication history of South American camelids in Northern Chile and across the Andes by Paloma Diaz-Maroto, Alba Rey-Iglesia, Isabel Cartajena, Lautaro Núñez, Michael V Westbury, Valeria Varas, Mauricio Moraga, Paula F Campos, Pablo Orozco-terWengel, Juan Carlos Marin, Anders J Hansen

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Systematic Ancient DNA Species Identification Fails to Find Late Holocene Domesticated Cattle in Southern Africa by K. Ann Horsburgh, Anna L. Gosling

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