David A. Merriwether

TL;DR: This work developed an approach to identify DNA inherited from multiple archaic hominin ancestors and applied it to whole-genome sequences from 1523 geographically diverse individuals, including 35 previously unknown Island Melanesian genomes, and recovered Neandertal and Denisovan DNA.

TL;DR: The phylogenetic evidence indicates that flax was first domesticated for oil, rather than fibre, and that the elevated synonymous substitution rate is compatible with a population expansion of flax since domestication, followed by a population decline in historic times.

TL;DR: While the profiles of the two sets of haplotypes indicate very distinctive origins in different populations with divergent expansion histories, the sequence of their introduction into the Santa Cruz Islands clearly does not follow simply.

TL;DR: The first comprehensive whole-genome integrated cytogenetic map for the alpaca is developed using fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and CHORI-246 BAC library clones and revealed remarkable evolutionary conservation of gene order within many human-camelid HSBs.

TL;DR: A cytogenetic map for chr36 was constructed in the alpaca, llama, and dromedary and showed its homology to human chromosome 7 (HSA7) at 49.8–55.5 Mb, and it was confirmed that the minute chromosome was a derivative of chr 36, but the small size was not a result of a large deletion or a translocation.