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Jennifer A. Leonard
Researcher at Spanish National Research Council
Publications - 116
Citations - 8045
Jennifer A. Leonard is an academic researcher from Spanish National Research Council. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Ancient DNA. The author has an hindex of 42, co-authored 105 publications receiving 7185 citations. Previous affiliations of Jennifer A. Leonard include Uppsala University & University of California, Los Angeles.
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Species-specific responses of Late Quaternary megafauna to climate and humans
Eline D. Lorenzen,David Nogués-Bravo,Ludovic Orlando,Jaco Weinstock,Jonas Binladen,Katharine A. Marske,Andrew Ugan,Andrew Ugan,Andrew Ugan,Michael K. Borregaard,M. Thomas P. Gilbert,Rasmus Nielsen,Rasmus Nielsen,Simon Y. W. Ho,Ted Goebel,Kelly E. Graf,David A. Byers,Jesper Stenderup,Morten Rasmussen,Paula F. Campos,Jennifer A. Leonard,Jennifer A. Leonard,Klaus-Peter Koepfli,Duane G. Froese,Grant D. Zazula,Thomas W. Stafford,Kim Aaris-Sørensen,Persaram Batra,Alan M. Haywood,Joy S. Singarayer,Paul J. Valdes,G. G. Boeskorov,James A. Burns,S. P. Davydov,James Haile,Dennis L. Jenkins,Pavel A. Kosintsev,Tatyana Kuznetsova,Xulong Lai,Larry D. Martin,H. Gregory McDonald,Dick Mol,Morten Meldgaard,Kasper Munch,Elisabeth Stephan,Mikhail V. Sablin,Robert S. Sommer,Taras Sipko,Eric Scott,Marc A. Suchard,Alexei Tikhonov,Rane Willerslev,Robert K. Wayne,Alan Cooper,Michael Hofreiter,Andrei Sher,Beth Shapiro,Carsten Rahbek,Eske Willerslev +58 more
TL;DR: It is shown that climate has been a major driver of population change over the past 50,000 years, however, each species responds differently to the effects of climatic shifts, habitat redistribution and human encroachment.
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Widespread Origins of Domestic Horse Lineages
Carles Vilà,Jennifer A. Leonard,Anders Götherström,Stefan L. Marklund,K. Sandberg,Kerstin Lidén,Robert K. Wayne,Hans Ellegren +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the mtDNA control region sequences of 191 domestic horses were analyzed and found a high diversity of matrilines, which implies an unprecedented and widespread integration of mtrilines and an extensive utilization and taming of wild horses.
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Complete Mitochondrial Genomes of Ancient Canids Suggest a European Origin of Domestic Dogs
Olaf Thalmann,Beth Shapiro,Pin Cui,Verena J. Schuenemann,Susanna Sawyer,D. L. Greenfield,Mietje Germonpré,Mikhail V. Sablin,Francesc López-Giráldez,Xavier Domingo-Roura,Hannes Napierala,H-P. Uerpmann,Daniel Loponte,Alejandro Acosta,Liane Giemsch,Ralf Schmitz,B. Worthington,Jane E. Buikstra,Anna S. Druzhkova,Alexander S. Graphodatsky,Nikolai D. Ovodov,Niklas Wahlberg,Adam H. Freedman,Rena M. Schweizer,Klaus-Peter Koepfli,Jennifer A. Leonard,Matthias Meyer,Johannes Krause,Svante Pääbo,Richard E. Green,Robert K. Wayne +30 more
TL;DR: The findings imply that domestic dogs are the culmination of a process that initiated with European hunter-gatherers and the canids with whom they interacted, and molecular dating suggests an onset of domestication there 18,800 to 32,100 years ago.
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Ancient DNA Evidence for Old World Origin of New World Dogs
TL;DR: Mitochondrial DNA sequences isolated from ancient dog remains from Latin America and Alaska showed that native American dogs originated from multiple Old World lineages of dogs that accompanied late Pleistocene humans across the Bering Strait.
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Molecular and Evolutionary History of Melanism in North American Gray Wolves
Tovi M. Anderson,Bridgett M. vonHoldt,Sophie I. Candille,Marco Musiani,Claudia Greco,Daniel R. Stahler,Douglas W. Smith,Badri Padhukasahasram,Ettore Randi,Jennifer A. Leonard,Carlos Bustamante,Elaine A. Ostrander,Hua Tang,Robert K. Wayne,Gregory S. Barsh +14 more
TL;DR: The melanistic K locus mutation in North American wolves derives from past hybridization with domestic dogs, has risen to high frequency in forested habitats, and exhibits a molecular signature of positive selection as discussed by the authors.