Beyond biodiversity: Can environmental DNA (eDNA) cut it as a population genetics tool?

CIM Adams, M Knapp, NJ Gemmell, GJ Jeunen… - Genes, 2019 - mdpi.com
Population genetic data underpin many studies of behavioral, ecological, and evolutionary
processes in wild populations and contribute to effective conservation management …

The isotopic ecology of the mammoth steppe

DG Drucker - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The Mammoth Steppe was the dominant terrestrial biome of the Northern Hemisphere
during the late Pleistocene. It encompassed a nonanalog community of animals living in a …

Emergence of human-adapted Salmonella enterica is linked to the Neolithization process

FM Key, C Posth, LR Esquivel-Gomez… - Nature ecology & …, 2020 - nature.com
It has been hypothesized that the Neolithic transition towards an agricultural and pastoralist
economy facilitated the emergence of human-adapted pathogens. Here, we recovered eight …

Stable isotopes reveal patterns of diet and mobility in the last Neandertals and first modern humans in Europe

C Wißing, H Rougier, C Baumann, A Comeyne… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Correlating cultural, technological and ecological aspects of both Upper Pleistocene modern
humans (UPMHs) and Neandertals provides a useful approach for achieving robust …

Combining ZooMS and zooarchaeology to study Late Pleistocene hominin behaviour at Fumane (Italy)

V Sinet-Mathiot, GM Smith, M Romandini, A Wilcke… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Collagen type I fingerprinting (ZooMS) has recently been used to provide either
palaeoenvironmental data or to identify additional hominin specimens in Pleistocene …

Ancient DNA of narrow-headed vole reveal common features of the Late Pleistocene population dynamics in cold-adapted small mammals

M Baca, D Popović… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The narrow-headed vole, collared lemming and common vole were the most abundant small
mammal species across the Eurasian Late Pleistocene steppe-tundra environment …

Isotopic insights on cave bear palaeodiet

H Bocherens - Historical Biology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
More than 300 cave bear bones from all over Europe have carbon and nitrogen isotopic
composition that match overwhelmingly a diet based on plants, except for samples from two …

Palaeoproteomics for human evolution studies

F Welker - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
The commonplace sequencing of Neanderthal, Denisovan and ancient modern human DNA
continues to revolutionize our understanding of hominin phylogeny and interaction (s). The …

[HTML][HTML] Late Pleistocene paleoecology and phylogeography of woolly rhinoceroses

A Rey-Iglesia, AM Lister, AJ Stuart, H Bocherens… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
The woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) was a cold-adapted herbivore, widely
distributed from western Europe to north-east Siberia during the Late Pleistocene. Previous …

Ancient DNA reveals interstadials as a driver of common vole population dynamics during the last glacial period

M Baca, D Popović, A Lemanik… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Many species experienced population turnover and local extinction during the Late
Pleistocene. In the case of megafauna, it remains challenging to disentangle climate change …