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Axel Barlow
Researcher at Nottingham Trent University
Publications - 66
Citations - 1837
Axel Barlow is an academic researcher from Nottingham Trent University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ancient DNA & Population. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 62 publications receiving 1349 citations. Previous affiliations of Axel Barlow include Bangor University & University of Potsdam.
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Coevolution of diet and prey-specific venom activity supports the role of selection in snake venom evolution
TL;DR: Examination of stomach and hindgut contents revealed extreme variation between the major clades of Echis in the proportion of arthropod prey consumed, providing strong evidence that variation in snake venom composition results from adaptive evolution driven by natural selection for different diets.
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The future of ancient DNA: Technical advances and conceptual shifts
Michael Hofreiter,Johanna L. A. Paijmans,Helen Goodchild,Camilla Speller,Axel Barlow,Gloria G. Fortes,Jessica A. Thomas,Arne Ludwig,Matthew J. Collins +8 more
TL;DR: In this review, important areas of future technical and conceptual progress are highlighted and research topics in the rapidly growing field of palaeogenomics are discussed.
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Partial genomic survival of cave bears in living brown bears
Axel Barlow,James A. Cahill,Stefanie Hartmann,Christoph Theunert,Christoph Theunert,Georgios Xenikoudakis,Gloria G. Fortes,Gloria G. Fortes,Johanna L. A. Paijmans,Gernot Rabeder,Christine Frischauf,Aurora Grandal-d'Anglade,Ana García-Vázquez,Marine Murtskhvaladze,Urmas Saarma,Peeter Anijalg,Tomaž Skrbinšek,Giorgio Bertorelle,Boris Gasparian,Guy Bar-Oz,Ron Pinhasi,Ron Pinhasi,Montgomery Slatkin,Love Dalén,Beth Shapiro,Michael Hofreiter +25 more
TL;DR: It is found that segments of cave bear DNA still persist in the genomes of living brown bears, and despite cave bears going extinct during the Last Glacial Maximum, extant brown bears maintain a genomic contribution from cave bears.
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Phylogeography of the widespread African puff adder ( Bitis arietans ) reveals multiple Pleistocene refugia in southern Africa
Axel Barlow,Karis Baker,Catriona R. Hendry,Catriona R. Hendry,Lindsay Peppin,Tony Phelps,Krystal A. Tolley,Catharine E. Wüster,Wolfgang Wüster +8 more
TL;DR: This study reveals a complex history of refugial isolation and secondary expansion for puff adders and a mosaic of isolated refugia in southern Africa and identifies key differences between the processes that drove isolation in B. arietans and those hypothesized for sympatric savannah mammals.
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A mitogenomic timetree for Darwin’s enigmatic South American mammal Macrauchenia patachonica
Michael V. Westbury,Sina Baleka,Axel Barlow,Stefanie Hartmann,Johanna L. A. Paijmans,Alejandro Gustavo Kramarz,Analía M. Forasiepi,Mariano Bond,Javier N. Gelfo,Marcelo Alfredo Reguero,Patricio López-Mendoza,Matias Taglioretti,Fernando Scaglia,Andrés Rinderknecht,Washington Jones,Francisco Mena,Guillaume Billet,Christian de Muizon,José Luis Aguilar,Ross D. E. MacPhee,Michael Hofreiter +20 more
TL;DR: An almost complete mitochondrial genome for the litoptern Macrauchenia is reported, showing that, when using strict criteria, extinct taxa marked by deep divergence times and a lack of close living relatives may still be amenable to palaeogenomic analysis through iterative mapping against more distant relatives.