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This study recovers ancient DNA from extinct species and human remains on Columbretes Island, revealing biogeographic origins and human-mediated introductions.

G-ALN accelerates BWA-aln for ancient DNA analysis using GPU, achieving faster indexing and alignment speeds with identical output.

The paper uses sedimentary ancient DNA to analyze the timing of plant and animal arrivals in northeast Greenland, showing muskox arrived before humans and environmental changes coincided with cultural periods.

This study uses ancient genomes of Alpine ibex to show that past population dynamics and genetic diversity loss are critical for understanding current conservation challenges.

DNAharvester is a Nextflow pipeline designed to process highly degraded DNA from ancient specimens, improving authentic data recovery through modular workflows and contamination mitigation.

This study uses paleogenomes of dire wolves to resolve their evolutionary relationships and identify genes under diversifying selection.

This study reconstructs the genomic history of the extinct giant deer, revealing genetic vulnerabilities linked to its extinction.

The paper identifies a mutation in the MC1R gene responsible for seasonal camouflage in least weasels and shows it was maintained by spatially varying selection.

The paper analyzes 1,001 wolf genomes to reveal distinct evolutionary lineages and genetic health issues across Europe, highlighting the need for region-specific conservation strategies.

This study creates a multiplex-edited mouse model with woolly mammoth hair traits, showing curly and textured coats through gene modifications.

The paper describes the European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) pilot project, which tests a decentralized model for producing high-quality reference genomes across 98 European species.

This paper reports the 3D genome architecture of a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth using a novel method, revealing conserved epigenetic features across elephantids.

aMeta is a metagenomic profiling workflow that improves accuracy and reduces memory usage in ancient microbiome analysis.

The paper compares genomic consequences of reintroduction and natural recolonisation in Svalbard reindeer, finding natural recolonisation leads to greater genetic issues than reintroduction.

This study finds higher inbreeding and purging of mutational load in wild Amur tigers compared to captive individuals, suggesting purifying selection reduces deleterious alleles in wild populations.

The paper investigates the genomic basis of invasiveness in Ambrosia artemisiifolia, finding selection signatures in defense genes and reduced pathogen prevalence in invasive populations.

GenErode provides a pipeline to analyze genomic erosion by comparing ancient and modern whole-genome re-sequencing data, producing standardized erosion indices.

The paper sequenced the genome of an extinct Sardinian dhole to determine its evolutionary history and phylogenetic position, finding it diverged from Asian dholes and experienced gene flow before isolation.

This study quantifies index hopping rates on the Illumina HiSeqX platform and finds they are low, suggesting multiplexing does not significantly affect results compared to older platforms.

The paper analyzes mountain lion genomes to study genetic rescue effects in inbred populations, finding that translocated individuals quickly lose genetic diversity due to local inbreeding.

This study uses Early Pleistocene dental enamel proteome sequences to resolve the phylogeny of Stephanorhinus, showing it is paraphyletic and requiring systematic revision.

The paper sequenced genomes of birds-of-paradise to identify genomic changes linked to their phenotypic diversity, finding strong selection on coloration, morphology, and sensory systems.