Tom van der Valk

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report the recovery of genome-wide data from three mammoth specimens dating to the Early and Middle Pleistocene subepochs, two of which are more than one million years old.

TL;DR: It is suggested that species histories as well as the rate of demographic change may influence how population declines affect genome diversity.

TL;DR: Barcodes are used, short sequences that are ligated to both ends of the DNA insert, to directly quantify the rate of index hopping in 100‐year old museum‐preserved gorilla (Gorilla beringei) samples, and it is shown that sample‐specific quantity of misassigned reads depends on the number of reads that any given sample contributes to the total sequencing pool, so that samples with few sequenced reads receive the greatest proportion of misAssigned reads.

TL;DR: The first genome-wide analyses of the species are reported, including a high-quality genome assembly for kākāpō, one of the first chromosome-level reference genomes sequenced by the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used whole-genome sequences from 57 tigers to estimate individual inbreeding and mutation load in a small-isolated and two large-connected populations in India.