Ancient DNA suggests humans reached America far earlier than previously thought
A research review favors migration between 20,000 and 14,000 years ago for ancestors of most living Indigenous Americans.Genetic…
In 1957, officials released one male and one female wild sheep on a remote Kerguelen island; 46 years later, their isolated population had higher genetic diversity | World News
AI Representation: A small population of wild sheep thrives across the rugged Kerguelen landscape. Image credits: Chatgpt One…
Genetic diversity of late Neanderthals in northwestern Europe
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Study of 3,000 DNA Samples Reshapes Understanding of Japanese Origins
Jōmon people at the Sannai-Maruyama museum. Credit: G41rn8 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 A new analysis…
Insights into human adaptation from ancient DNA
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Local agricultural transition, crisis and migration in the Southern Andes
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Gene conversion empowers natural selection in a clonal fish species
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Population-scale sequencing resolves determinants of persistent EBV DNA
Rationale of EBV detection The 171,823-nucleotide EBV genome (NC_007605.1) was first included in December 2013 (hg38 version GCA_000001405.15)…
Archaeogenetics reconstructs demography and extreme parental consanguinity in a Bronze Age community from Southern Italy
Palaeogenomic dataset DNA extracts were obtained from teeth (n = 10) and petrous bones (n = 13) and converted into multiple single-stranded…
A global coral phylogeny reveals resilience and vulnerability through deep time
Hoegh-Guldberg, O. et al. Coral reefs under rapid climate change and ocean acidification. Science 318, 1737–1742 (2007). Article …
Pan-UK Biobank genome-wide association analyses enhance discovery and resolution of ancestry-enriched effects
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One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants
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