We present DNAharvester 🎉🦴🚜🧬
A pipeline to process highly degraded ancient DNA data that integrates metagenomic filtering, competitive mapping, multiple alignment strategies, reference bias evaluation and much more.
GitHub: github.com/NBISweden/DN...
Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Two palaeogeneticists traveling to Northern Yukon's wilderness in search of extremely old DNA 🧊🧬🧪
A mysterious permafrost mummy hidden in the collections 🦴🕵️
An Agatha Christie book 📖
@gog1693.bsky.social behind-the-scenes story on his paper has EVERYTHING!
Paper 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Scientists have sequenced the genome of the long-extinct woolly rhinoceros from remains found in the stomach of a naturally mummified Pleistocene wolf pup
How does development shape the variation evolution can act on?
In our new paper in @pnas.org , we bridge developmental dynamics and quantitative genetics, linking dynamical models of phenotype formation with the statistical parameters used to study evolutionary change
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Looking for a postdoc to join my group at the NHM London & work on aDNA of dogs/wolves!
jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
It was such a pleasure to talk about our woolly rhino ancient DNA research 🧬⌛ on @livingonearthradio.bsky.social
Check this thread about our latest paper, written by one of the lead authors, @officialernst.bsky.social. It was such an exciting project!
We have received a lot of media interest, and it has been a real pleasure to engage with a lot of wonderful science communicators. Thanks to @genomebiolevol.bsky.social for collating great examples of this coverage. This coverage includes very positive opinions from academics we respect a lot (2/n)
Congratulations @amandalindahl.bsky.social and team, so glad to be part of this super interesting research 🐻⌛🧬
So proud that this is out 🐺⏳🧬🦏. First paper as a senior author (co-shared with @lovedalen.bsky.social; thanks for a great opportunity) and led by my awesome former MSc student @solveiggudjonsd.bsky.social and a brilliant CPG postdoc @edanalord.bsky.social (1/n)
OA: academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
Scientists have sequenced the genome of the long-extinct woolly rhinoceros from remains found in the stomach of a naturally mummified Pleistocene wolf pup
www.scientificamerican.com
Phenotypic variation is the raw material for evolutionary diversification and adaptation.
However, a critical gap remains in evolutionary theory be...
As promised, what follows is a behind-the-scenes story of how we came across this permafrost-mummified tissue and tried to determine which species it belonged to.
Very excited to share our study of an ancient environmental genome extracted from lake sediment! It originates from a brown bear that lived around 9,600 years ago close to the last ice-sheet remains in northern Sweden, and has an unexpected mitochondrial haplogroup. 1/7 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Read our new paper in Genome Biology & Evolution to learn more about how sequencing the genome from a 14,000 year old wolf puppy's last meal yielded novel insights into the woolly rhino's extinction:
academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
📷 Mietje Germonpré
Woolly rhino DNA was found preserved in the belly of a wolf pup in Siberia, giving scientists a rare glimpse into how these animals lived 14,000 years ago. @jcchacond.bsky.social www.loe.org/shows/segmen...
After the last ice age, species migrated into a newly deglaciated Scandinavia. Brown
bear recolonization is thought to have occurred from two direc...
The recent article on wholly rhino ancient genomics by Guðjónsdóttir, @jcchacond.bsky.social et al. has received plenty of attention in the media.
⬇️ Check below the thread below for some great coverage on this story.
