Alexander T. Salis

This study uses ancient mitochondrial genomes from Malagasy hippos to reveal unexpected diversity and a complex diversification history, challenging traditional taxonomy and showing a recent radiation of large-bodied island mammals.

This paper uses ancient DNA to reconstruct the evolutionary history of the extinct Spectacled Cormorant, finding it diverged from relatives around 6.98 Mya and may have been a kelp-forest predator.

The paper uses historical DNA to show that a small population's genetic load was not purged after a bottleneck, despite demographic recovery.