The future of ancient DNA: technical advances and conceptual shifts

M Hofreiter, JLA Paijmans, H Goodchild… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Technological innovations such as next generation sequencing and DNA hybridisation
enrichment have resulted in multi‐fold increases in both the quantity of ancient DNA …

Ancient DNA studies: new perspectives on old samples

E Rizzi, M Lari, E Gigli, G De Bellis… - Genetics Selection …, 2012 - Springer
In spite of past controversies, the field of ancient DNA is now a reliable research area due to
recent methodological improvements. A series of recent large-scale studies have revealed …

Speciation with gene flow in equids despite extensive chromosomal plasticity

H Jónsson, M Schubert… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Horses, asses, and zebras belong to a single genus, Equus, which emerged 4.0–4.5 Mya.
Although the equine fossil record represents a textbook example of evolution, the …

Late Pleistocene and Holocene mammal extinctions on continental Africa

JT Faith - Earth-Science Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
Understanding the cause of late Quaternary mammal extinctions is the subject of intense
debate spanning the fields of archeology and paleontology. In the global context, the losses …

Mitochondrial phylogenomics of modern and ancient equids

JT Vilstrup, A Seguin-Orlando, M Stiller, A Ginolhac… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The genus Equus is richly represented in the fossil record, yet our understanding of
taxonomic relationships within this genus remains limited. To estimate the phylogenetic …

Cryptic biodiversity in a changing world

LB Beheregaray, A Caccone - Journal of Biology, 2007 - Springer
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Revising the recent evolutionary history of equids using ancient DNA

L Orlando, JL Metcalf, MT Alberdi… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
The rich fossil record of the family Equidae (Mammalia: Perissodactyla) over the past 55 MY
has made it an icon for the patterns and processes of macroevolution. Despite this, many …

[BOOK][B] Horse nations: the worldwide impact of the horse on indigenous societies post-1492

P Mitchell - 2015 - books.google.com
The Native American on a horse is an archetypal Hollywood image, but though such
equestrian-focused societies were a relatively short-lived consequence of European …

Need morphology always be required for new species descriptions?

LG Cook, RD Edwards, MD Crisp… - Invertebrate …, 2010 - CSIRO Publishing
Despite the widespread and common use of DNA-sequence data to estimate phylogenies,
support or contest classifications, and identify species using barcodes, they are not …

The population history of extant and extinct hyenas

N Rohland, JL Pollack, D Nagel… - Molecular biology …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
We have analyzed partial DNA sequences of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene from
extant striped, brown, and spotted hyenas as well as from Pleistocene cave hyenas …