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Matthias Meyer
Researcher at Max Planck Society
Publications - 182
Citations - 37857
Matthias Meyer is an academic researcher from Max Planck Society. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ancient DNA & Population. The author has an hindex of 72, co-authored 170 publications receiving 31843 citations. Previous affiliations of Matthias Meyer include Lund University & MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology.
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Illuminating the Base of the Annelid Tree Using Transcriptomics
Anne Weigert,Conrad Helm,Matthias Meyer,Birgit Nickel,Detlev Arendt,Bernhard Hausdorf,Scott R. Santos,Kenneth M. Halanych,Günter Purschke,Christoph Bleidorn,Torsten H. Struck +10 more
TL;DR: This study based on transcriptomic data comprising 68,750-170,497 amino acid sites from 305 to 622 proteins resolves annelid relationships, including Chaetopteridae, Amphinomidae, Sipuncula, Oweniidae, and Magelonidae in the basal part of the tree.
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Neandertal and Denisovan DNA from Pleistocene sediments
Viviane Slon,Charlotte Hopfe,Clemens L. Weiß,Fabrizio Mafessoni,Marco de la Rasilla,Carles Lalueza-Fox,Antonio Rosas,Marie Soressi,Marie Soressi,Monika Knul,Rebecca Miller,John R. Stewart,Anatoly P. Derevianko,Anatoly P. Derevianko,Zenobia Jacobs,Zenobia Jacobs,Bo Li,Richard G. Roberts,Richard G. Roberts,Michael V. Shunkov,Henry de Lumley,Christian Perrenoud,Ivan Gušić,Željko Kućan,Pavao Rudan,Ayinuer Aximu-Petri,Elena Essel,Sarah Nagel,Birgit Nickel,Anna Schmidt,Kay Prüfer,Janet Kelso,Hernán A. Burbano,Svante Pääbo,Matthias Meyer +34 more
TL;DR: Using targeted enrichment of mitochondrial DNA, it is shown that cave sediments represent a rich source of ancient mammalian DNA that often includes traces of hominin DNA, even at sites and in layers where no Hominin remains have been discovered.
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Patterns of coding variation in the complete exomes of three Neandertals
Sergi Castellano,Genís Parra,Federico Sánchez-Quinto,Fernando Racimo,Martin Kuhlwilm,Martin Kircher,Susanna Sawyer,Qiaomei Fu,Anja Heinze,Birgit Nickel,Jesse Dabney,Michael Siebauer,Louise White,Hernán A. Burbano,Gabriel Renaud,Udo Stenzel,Carles Lalueza-Fox,Marco de la Rasilla,Antonio Rosas,Pavao Rudan,Dejana Brajković,Željko Kućan,Ivan Gušić,Michael V. Shunkov,A.P. Derevianko,Bence Viola,Matthias Meyer,Janet Kelso,Aida M. Andrés,Svante Pääbo +29 more
TL;DR: It is shown that genetic diversity among Neandertals was remarkably low, and that they carried a higher proportion of amino acid-changing (nonsynonymous) alleles inferred to alter protein structure or function than present-day humans.
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Reducing microbial and human contamination in DNA extractions from ancient bones and teeth
Petra Korlević,Tobias Gerber,Marie-Theres Gansauge,Mateja Hajdinjak,Sarah Nagel,Ayinuer Aximu-Petri,Matthias Meyer +6 more
TL;DR: Both pretreatment methods described here greatly reduce the cost of genome sequencing from ancient material due to efficient depletion of microbial DNA, and it is found that the removal of human DNA contamination remains a challenging problem.
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A mitogenomic phylogeny of living primates.
Knut Finstermeier,Dietmar Zinner,Markus Brameier,Matthias Meyer,Eva Kreuz,Michael Hofreiter,Christian Roos +6 more
TL;DR: One major result is a relatively young date for the most recent common ancestor of all living primates which was estimated to 66-69 million years ago, suggesting that the divergence of extant primates started close to the K/T-boundary.