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Ralf Schmitz
Researcher at University of Bonn
Publications - 8
Citations - 5093
Ralf Schmitz is an academic researcher from University of Bonn. The author has contributed to research in topics: Neanderthal genome project & Genome. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 6 publications receiving 4475 citations. Previous affiliations of Ralf Schmitz include University of Tübingen.
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A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome
Richard E. Green,Johannes Krause,Adrian W. Briggs,Tomislav Maricic,Udo Stenzel,Martin Kircher,Nick Patterson,Heng Li,Weiwei Zhai,Markus Hsi-Yang Fritz,Nancy F. Hansen,Eric Durand,Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas,Jeffrey D. Jensen,Tomas Marques-Bonet,Tomas Marques-Bonet,Can Alkan,Kay Prüfer,Matthias Meyer,Hernán A. Burbano,Jeffrey M. Good,Jeffrey M. Good,Rigo Schultz,Ayinuer Aximu-Petri,Anne Butthof,Barbara Höber,Barbara Höffner,Madien Siegemund,Antje Weihmann,Chad Nusbaum,Eric S. Lander,Carsten Russ,Nathaniel Novod,Jason P. Affourtit,Michael Egholm,Christine Verna,Pavao Rudan,Dejana Brajković,Željko Kućan,Ivan Gušić,Vladimir B. Doronichev,Liubov V. Golovanova,Carles Lalueza-Fox,Marco de la Rasilla,Javier Fortea,Antonio Rosas,Ralf Schmitz,Philip L. F. Johnson,Evan E. Eichler,Daniel Falush,Ewan Birney,James C. Mullikin,Montgomery Slatkin,Rasmus Nielsen,Janet Kelso,Michael Lachmann,David Reich,David Reich,Svante Pääbo +58 more
TL;DR: The genomic data suggest that Neandertals mixed with modern human ancestors some 120,000 years ago, leaving traces of Ne andertal DNA in contemporary humans, suggesting that gene flow from Neand Bertals into the ancestors of non-Africans occurred before the divergence of Eurasian groups from each other.
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A Revised Timescale for Human Evolution Based on Ancient Mitochondrial Genomes
Qiaomei Fu,Qiaomei Fu,Alissa Mittnik,Philip L. F. Johnson,Kirsten I. Bos,Kirsten I. Bos,Martina Lari,Ruth Bollongino,Chengkai Sun,Liane Giemsch,Ralf Schmitz,Joachim Burger,Annamaria Ronchitelli,Fabio Martini,Renata Grifoni Cremonesi,Jiří Svoboda,Jiří Svoboda,Peter Bauer,David Caramelli,Sergi Castellano,David Reich,David Reich,Svante Pääbo,Johannes Krause +23 more
TL;DR: This work uses mitochondrial genome sequences from ten securely dated ancient modern humans spanning 40,000 years as calibration points for the mitochondrial clock, thus yielding a direct estimate of the mitochondrial substitution rate and implies a separation of non-Africans from the most closely related sub-Saharan African mitochondrial DNAs that occurred less than 62-95 kya.
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Targeted retrieval and analysis of five Neandertal mtDNA genomes
Adrian W. Briggs,Jeffrey M. Good,Richard E. Green,Johannes Krause,Tomislav Maricic,Udo Stenzel,Carles Lalueza-Fox,Pavao Rudan,Dejana Brajković,Željko Kućan,Ivan Gušić,Ralf Schmitz,Vladimir B. Doronichev,Liubov V. Golovanova,Marco de la Rasilla,Javier Fortea,Antonio Rosas,Svante Pääbo +17 more
TL;DR: Targeted sequencing improves Neandertal mitochondrial DNA retrieval and reveals low diversity among individuals, and together with analyses of mtDNA protein evolution, these data suggest that the long-term effective population size of Ne andertals was smaller than that of modern humans and extant great apes.
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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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A new look at an old dog : Bonn-Oberkassel reconsidered
TL;DR: It is suggested that at least some Late Pleistocene humans regarded dogs not just materialistically, but may have developed emotional and caring bonds for their dogs, as reflected by the survival of this dog, quite possibly through human care.