Recent scientific discoveries that resulted from the application of next-generation DNA
sequencing technologies highlight the striking impact of these massively parallel platforms …

A new generation of non-Sanger-based sequencing technologies has delivered on its
promise of sequencing DNA at unprecedented speed, thereby enabling impressive scientific …

The grey wolf (Canis lupus) was the first species to give rise to a domestic population, and
they remained widespread throughout the last Ice Age when many other large mammal …

One of the main impediments for obtaining DNA sequences from ancient human skeletons is
the presence of contaminating modern human DNA molecules in many fossil samples and …

Large-scale genomic analyses of ancient human populations have become feasible partly
due to refined sampling methods. The inner part of petrous bones and the cementum layer …

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 …

Most ancient specimens contain very low levels of endogenous DNA, precluding the
shotgun sequencing of many interesting samples because of cost. Ancient DNA (aDNA) …

Only five species of the once-diverse Rhinocerotidae remain, making the reconstruction of
their evolutionary history a challenge to biologists since Darwin. We sequenced genomes …

Technological innovations such as next generation sequencing and DNA hybridisation
enrichment have resulted in multi‐fold increases in both the quantity of ancient DNA …

I ntroduction Humans first peopled the North American Arctic (northern Alaska, Canada, and
Greenland) around 6000 years ago, leaving behind a complex archaeological record that …