Paleoproteomics

C Warinner, K Korzow Richter, MJ Collins - Chemical reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Paleoproteomics, the study of ancient proteins, is a rapidly growing field at the intersection of
molecular biology, paleontology, archaeology, paleoecology, and history. Paleoproteomics …

A guide to ancient protein studies

J Hendy, F Welker, B Demarchi, C Speller… - Nature ecology & …, 2018 - nature.com
Palaeoproteomics is an emerging neologism used to describe the application of mass
spectrometry-based approaches to the study of ancient proteomes. As with palaeogenomics …

A late middle Pleistocene Denisovan mandible from the Tibetan Plateau

F Chen, F Welker, CC Shen, SE Bailey, I Bergmann… - nature, 2019 - nature.com
Denisovans are members of a hominin group who are currently only known directly from
fragmentary fossils, the genomes of which have been studied from a single site, Denisova …

The dental proteome of Homo antecessor

F Welker, J Ramos-Madrigal, P Gutenbrunner… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The phylogenetic relationships between hominins of the Early Pleistocene epoch in Eurasia,
such as Homo antecessor, and hominins that appear later in the fossil record during the …

Early Pleistocene enamel proteome from Dmanisi resolves Stephanorhinus phylogeny

E Cappellini, F Welker, L Pandolfi, J Ramos-Madrigal… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The sequencing of ancient DNA has enabled the reconstruction of speciation, migration and
admixture events for extinct taxa. However, the irreversible post-mortem degradation of …

Ancient and modern genomes unravel the evolutionary history of the rhinoceros family

S Liu, MV Westbury, N Dussex, KJ Mitchell… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Only five species of the once-diverse Rhinocerotidae remain, making the reconstruction of
their evolutionary history a challenge to biologists since Darwin. We sequenced genomes …

Ancient protein analysis in archaeology

J Hendy - Science Advances, 2021 - science.org
The analysis of ancient proteins from paleontological, archeological, and historic materials is
revealing insights into past subsistence practices, patterns of health and disease, evolution …

Palaeoproteomics resolves sloth relationships

S Presslee, GJ Slater, F Pujos, AM Forasiepi… - Nature ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
The living tree sloths Choloepus and Bradypus are the only remaining members of Folivora,
a major xenarthran radiation that occupied a wide range of habitats in many parts of the …

Large-scale application of palaeoproteomics (Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry; ZooMS) in two Palaeolithic faunal assemblages from China

N Wang, Y Xu, Z Tang, C He, X Hu… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The application of Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) on Pleistocene sites in
Europe and northern Asia has resulted in the discovery of important new hominin fossils and …

Combining ZooMS and zooarchaeology to study Late Pleistocene hominin behaviour at Fumane (Italy)

V Sinet-Mathiot, GM Smith, M Romandini, A Wilcke… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Collagen type I fingerprinting (ZooMS) has recently been used to provide either
palaeoenvironmental data or to identify additional hominin specimens in Pleistocene …