Carlos Bustamante

TL;DR: This work presents a method (XGMix) based on gradient boosted trees, which, while being accurate, is also simple to use, and fast to train, taking minutes on consumer-level laptops.

TL;DR: Liu et al. as discussed by the authors examined 164 ancient human remains from five different archaeological sites in remote Oceania from different prehistoric time frames, along with 112 present-day individuals from the same area.

TL;DR: In this paper, the 13-lined ground squirrel genome assembly was used to identify 6,505 hibernation-related, differentially-expressed and processed transcripts using RNA-seq data from three brain regions in animals whose physiological status was precisely defined using body temperature telemetry.

TL;DR: It is shown for the first time that a single population underwent strong domestication approximately 3,600 years ago, the Criollo population, and that during the process of domestication, there was strong selection for genes involved in the metabolism of the colored protectants anthocyanins and the stimulant theobromine, as well as disease resistance genes.

TL;DR: It is found that surprisingly, none of the extant wolf lineages from putative domestication centers are more closely related to dogs, and the sampled wolves instead form a sister monophyletic clade, suggesting a re-evaluation of past hypotheses of dog origin is necessary.