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William J. Pestle

University of MiamiORCID 0000-0002-6257-7900Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Assay:DNA methylation· 2 Approach:experimental assay· 2 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Organism:human· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1 Research Focus:variant calling· 1

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Anne C. StoneiD· 2 shared María A. Nieves-ColóniD· 2 shared Alex HubbeiD· 1 shared Andrea CucinaiD· 1 shared Andrew T. OzgaiD· 1 shared Austin W. ReynoldsiD· 1 shared Avaaz Amirali· 1 shared Bastien LlamasiD· 1 shared

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Late Quaternary millennial-scale stability of the feeding strategy of the gray brocket deer in Southeastern Brazil.

William J. Pestle, Alex Hubbe, Mark Hübbe, Avaaz Amirali, Eliane Nunes Chim, Rodrigo Elias Oliveira, Eluzai Dinai Pinto Sandoval, Lorena Becerra-Valdivia, José Maurício Barbanti Duarte, Walter Alves Neves

This study uses stable isotope analysis of dental enamel to show that gray brocket deer in the Cerrado biome maintained a browsing diet from the Late Pleistocene to Holocene despite climatic changes.

bioRxiv · Nov 8, 2024 · PreprintPaleontology

Ancient DNA reconstructs the genetic legacies of pre-contact Puerto Rico communities

María A. Nieves-Colón, William J. Pestle, Austin W. Reynolds, Bastien Llamas, Constanza de la Fuente Castro, Kathleen Fowler, Katherine Marie Skerry, Edwin F. Crespo-Torres, Carlos D. Bustamante, Anne C. Stone

This study uses ancient DNA to reconstruct the genetic legacies of pre-contact Puerto Rico communities, finding Native American mtDNA haplogroups and shared ancestry with the Bahamas.

Molecular Biology and Evolution · Nov 8, 2019Peer-reviewedGenomics

Comparison of two ancient DNA extraction protocols for skeletal remains from tropical environments

María A. Nieves-Colón, Andrew T. Ozga, William J. Pestle, Andrea Cucina, Vera G. Tiesler, Travis W. Stanton, Anne C. Stone

This study compares two DNA extraction methods for ancient samples from tropical environments, finding Method D better for fragmented DNA recovery.

American Journal of Physical Anthropology · Mar 30, 2018Peer-reviewedGenetics