Christian Carøe

TL;DR: The observations suggest that the BGISEQ-500 holds the potential to represent a valid and potentially valuable alternative platform for palaeogenomic data generation that is worthy of future exploration by those interested in the sequencing and analysis of degraded DNA.

TL;DR: EDNA has revealed an ancient forest in Greenland, extended by several thousand years the survival dates for mainland woolly mammoth in Alaska, and pushed back the dates for spruce survival in Scandinavian ice-free refugia during the last glaciation.

TL;DR: Four Illumina library preparation protocols are compared, including two “single‐tube” methods developed for this study with the explicit aim of improving data quality and reducing preparation time and expenses, and single‐tube protocols increase library complexity, yield more reads that map uniquely to the reference genome, reduce processing time, and may decrease laboratory costs by 90%.

TL;DR: It is found that the initial diffusion of maize into the Southwest about 4,000 years ago is likely to have occurred along a highland route, followed by gene flow from a lowland coastal maize beginning at least 2,500 years ago.

TL;DR: A dataset of 48 resequenced genomes spanning all members of the genus Canis except the black-backed and side-striped jackals, encompassing the global diversity of seven extant canid lineages, finds gene flow between the ancestors of the dhole and African hunting dog and admixture between the gray wolf, coyote, golden jackal, and African golden wolf.