Genetics

Cecilia and Andrea published a new paper in PNAS combining ethnographic, archaeological, genetic, and paleoclimatic data to model the dynamics of Central African hunter-gatherer populations over the past 120,000 years. Padilla-Iglesias et al. (2022) Population interconnectivity over the past 120,000 years explains...

It is now out in Current Biology Andrea's new paper characterising the level of genetic diversity and inferring the genetic history of African and Asian leopards. Johanna L.A. Paijmans, Axel Barlow, Matthew S. Becker, James A. Cahill, Joerns Fickel, Daniel W.G. Förster, Katrin Gries, Stefanie Hartmann, Rasmus Worsøe...

It is now out in Scientific data the paper describing our curated dataset of 35 whole-genome sequenced samples, previously published, together with the genetic pipeline used to process them. The link to download both the data and the pipeline is in the right column. Pierpaolo Maisano Delser, Eppie R. Jones, Anahit...

Andrea took part in a paper just published in PNAS that, through the analysis of the genetic diversity in Helicobacter pylori , reconstructs the human peopling of Siberia and America. Yoshan Moodley, Andrea Brunelli, Silvia Ghirotto, Andrey Klyubin, Ayas S. Maady, William Tyne, Zilia Y. Muñoz-Ramirez, Zhemin Zhou, Andrea...

It is now out in BMC Bioinformatics the paper describing mtDNAcombine , an R package to combine mitochondrial sequences from multiple studies. In the right column are linked a few resources to familiarise with it. Eleanor F. Miller, Andrea Manica (2021) mtDNAcombine: tools to combine sequences from multiple studies BMC...

Our group just published a new paper in Nature Human Behaviour . It analyses radiocarbon dates, palaeoclimatic reconstructions and ancient DNA to show how climate shaped the expansion of Neolithic farmers in Europe and their interaction with local hunter-gatherers. Lia Betti, Robert M. Beyer, Eppie R. Jones, Anders...

Andrea took part in a response to the very debated article recently published in Nature by Chan and colleagues claiming a Southern African origin of Homo sapiens based on present-day mitochondrial DNA data. Carina M. Schlebusch, Liisa Loog, Huw S. Groucutt, Turi King, Adam Rutherford, Chiara Barbieri, Guido Barbujani...

Yesterday came out in BMC Biology Andrea’s paper on the sequencing of the Nomura’s Jellyfish genome and transcriptome (bell and tentacles), which helped to shed light on the evolution of predation. Hak-Min Kim, Jessica A. Weber, Nayoung Lee, Seung Gu Park, Yun Sung Cho, Youngjune Bhak, Nayun Lee, Yeonsu Jeon, Sungwon Jeon...

Andrea, Anders and Liisa’s paper is now out in Science , analysing ancient DNA from rabbits to better understand how different populations worldwide developed resistance to the myxoma virus. Joel M Alves, Miguel Carneiro, Jade Y Cheng, Ana Lemos de Matos, Masmudur M Rahman, Liisa Loog, Paula F Campos, Nathan Wales, Anders...

Andrea published a paper in Proceedings of the Royal Society B that analyses ancient genomes finding evidence of migration from Africa into the Iberian Peninsula during the Bronze Age. G. González-Fortes, F. Tassi, E. Trucchi, K. Henneberger, J. L. A. Paijmans, D. Díez-del-Molino, H. Schroeder, R. R. Susca, C. Barroso-Ruíz...