Species worldwide are subject to contractions in both abundance and geographical range,
and their persistence in a changing environment may thus depend on the ability to survive in …

A number of species have recently recovered from near-extinction. Although these species
have avoided the immediate extinction threat, their long-term viability remains precarious …

During the Late Pleistocene, the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) experienced a
series of local extinctions generally attributed to human predation or environmental change …

The processes leading up to species extinctions are typically characterized by prolonged
declines in population size and geographic distribution, followed by a phase in which …

Biodiversity is declining globally. Yet, the biological and genetic processes associated with
these declines on a longer timescale are still poorly understood. Ancient DNA is a powerful …

Comparative genomics studies typically limit their focus to single nucleotide variants (SNVs)
and that was the case for previous comparisons of woolly mammoth genomes. We extended …

The onset of the Holocene was associated with a global temperature increase, which led to
a rise in sea levels and isolation of the last surviving population of woolly mammoths on …

Woolly mammoths, Mammuthus primigenius, are arguably the most iconic of the extinct
Pleistocene megafauna, and an abundance of large permafrost‐embedded bone and ivory …

Woolly mammoths were among the most abundant cold adapted species during the
Pleistocene. Their once large populations went extinct in two waves, an end-Pleistocene …

The population dynamics of the Pleistocene woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) has
been the subject of intensive palaeogenetic research. Although a large number of …