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Nicolas J. Rawlence
Researcher at University of Otago
Publications - 74
Citations - 1886
Nicolas J. Rawlence is an academic researcher from University of Otago. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ancient DNA & Biology. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 64 publications receiving 1565 citations. Previous affiliations of Nicolas J. Rawlence include Victoria University of Wellington & University of Waikato.
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Ancient DNA reveals elephant birds and kiwi are sister taxa and clarifies ratite bird evolution
Kieren J. Mitchell,Bastien Llamas,Julien Soubrier,Nicolas J. Rawlence,Trevor H. Worthy,Jamie R. Wood,Michael S. Y. Lee,Michael S. Y. Lee,Alan Cooper +8 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that convergence toward gigantism and flightlessness was facilitated by early Tertiary expansion into the diurnal herbivory niche after the extinction of the dinosaurs.
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Using ancient DNA to study the origins and dispersal of ancestral Polynesian chickens across the Pacific
Vicki A. Thomson,Ophélie Lebrasseur,Jeremy J. Austin,Jeremy J. Austin,Terry L. Hunt,Terry L. Hunt,David A. Burney,Tim Denham,Nicolas J. Rawlence,Nicolas J. Rawlence,Jamie R. Wood,Jaime Gongora,Linus Girdland Flink,Anna Linderholm,Keith Dobney,Greger Larson,Alan Cooper +16 more
TL;DR: It is revealed that previous studies have been impacted by contamination with modern chicken DNA and, as a result, there is no evidence for Polynesian dispersal of chickens to pre-Columbian South America, and a group of unique, closely related haplotypes found only in the Pacific are found.
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Indo-European and Asian origins for Chilean and Pacific chickens revealed by mtDNA
Jaime Gongora,Nicolas J. Rawlence,Victor A. Mobegi,Han Jianlin,José Antonio Alcalde,José Tomás Matus,Olivier Hanotte,Chris Moran,Jeremy J. Austin,Sean Ulm,Atholl Anderson,Greger Larson,Alan Cooper +12 more
TL;DR: Modeling of the potential marine carbon contribution to the Chilean archaeological specimen casts further doubt on claims for pre-Columbian chickens, and definitive proof will require further analyses of ancient DNA sequences and radiocarbon and stable isotope data from archaeological excavations within both Chile and Polynesia.
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Coprolite deposits reveal the diet and ecology of the extinct New Zealand megaherbivore moa (Aves, Dinornithiformes)
Jamie R. Wood,Nicolas J. Rawlence,Geoffery M. Rogers,Jeremy J. Austin,Trevor H. Worthy,Alan Cooper +5 more
TL;DR: The discovery in New Zealand of Late Holocene deposits of coprolites from extinct avian megaherbivores has provided a unique opportunity to gain a detailed insight into the ecology of these birds across ecologically diverse habitats as mentioned in this paper.
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Using palaeoenvironmental DNA to reconstruct past environments: progress and prospects
Nicolas J. Rawlence,David J. Lowe,Jamie R. Wood,Jennifer M. Young,G. Jock Churchman,Yu Tuan Huang,Alan Cooper +6 more
TL;DR: Palaeoenvironmental DNA (PalEnDNA) is defined as ancient DNA (aDNA) originating from disseminated genetic material within palaeoenvironmentsal samples.