Published in Science on April 17, 2003
Power and limitations of the chloroplast trnL (UAA) intron for plant DNA barcoding. Nucleic Acids Res (2006) 5.31
Species detection using environmental DNA from water samples. Biol Lett (2008) 4.96
Ancient DNA. Proc Biol Sci (2005) 4.84
Recharacterization of ancient DNA miscoding lesions: insights in the era of sequencing-by-synthesis. Nucleic Acids Res (2006) 4.70
Ancient biomolecules from deep ice cores reveal a forested southern Greenland. Science (2007) 3.79
Comparative performance of the 16S rRNA gene in DNA barcoding of amphibians. Front Zool (2005) 3.23
Detection of a diverse marine fish fauna using environmental DNA from seawater samples. PLoS One (2012) 2.75
Complete mitochondrial genome of a Pleistocene jawbone unveils the origin of polar bear. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2010) 2.57
Complete mitochondrial genome sequence of a Middle Pleistocene cave bear reconstructed from ultrashort DNA fragments. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2013) 2.45
Proboscidean mitogenomics: chronology and mode of elephant evolution using mastodon as outgroup. PLoS Biol (2007) 2.34
Ancient DNA reveals late survival of mammoth and horse in interior Alaska. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2009) 2.10
An in silico approach for the evaluation of DNA barcodes. BMC Genomics (2010) 1.99
Conservation in a cup of water: estimating biodiversity and population abundance from environmental DNA. Mol Ecol (2012) 1.90
True single-molecule DNA sequencing of a pleistocene horse bone. Genome Res (2011) 1.88
Ancient bacteria show evidence of DNA repair. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2007) 1.81
Fifty thousand years of Arctic vegetation and megafaunal diet. Nature (2014) 1.78
Regeneration of whole fertile plants from 30,000-y-old fruit tissue buried in Siberian permafrost. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2012) 1.72
Investigating the potential use of environmental DNA (eDNA) for genetic monitoring of marine mammals. PLoS One (2012) 1.51
Ecological consequences of Late Quaternary extinctions of megafauna. Proc Biol Sci (2009) 1.42
ecoPrimers: inference of new DNA barcode markers from whole genome sequence analysis. Nucleic Acids Res (2011) 1.33
Fast phylogenetic DNA barcoding. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2008) 1.27
Postglacial viability and colonization in North America's ice-free corridor. Nature (2016) 1.26
Non-destructive sampling of ancient insect DNA. PLoS One (2009) 1.25
Simultaneous recovery of extracellular and intracellular DNA suitable for molecular studies from marine sediments. Appl Environ Microbiol (2005) 1.25
Ancient DNA from lake sediments: bridging the gap between paleoecology and genetics. BMC Evol Biol (2011) 1.24
Comparisons of protocols for decontamination of environmental ice samples for biological and molecular examinations. Appl Environ Microbiol (2004) 1.24
Next Generation Sequencing of Ancient DNA: Requirements, Strategies and Perspectives. Genes (Basel) (2010) 1.22
Beringian paleoecology inferred from permafrost-preserved fungal DNA. Appl Environ Microbiol (2005) 1.22
Ancient and modern environmental DNA. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2015) 1.16
Bacterial natural transformation by highly fragmented and damaged DNA. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2013) 1.15
The application of eDNA for monitoring of the Great Crested Newt in the UK. Ecol Evol (2014) 1.11
Proxy comparison in ancient peat sediments: pollen, macrofossil and plant DNA. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2015) 1.10
To clone or not to clone: method analysis for retrieving consensus sequences in ancient DNA samples. PLoS One (2011) 1.05
DNA content and distribution in ancient feathers and potential to reconstruct the plumage of extinct avian taxa. Proc Biol Sci (2009) 0.99
How many clones need to be sequenced from a single forensic or ancient DNA sample in order to determine a reliable consensus sequence? Nucleic Acids Res (2005) 0.96
Typing single polymorphic nucleotides in mitochondrial DNA as a way to access Middle Pleistocene DNA. Biol Lett (2006) 0.95
High-resolution coproecology: using coprolites to reconstruct the habits and habitats of New Zealand's extinct upland moa (Megalapteryx didinus). PLoS One (2012) 0.94
Prokaryotic diversity in the Antarctic: the tip of the iceberg. Microb Ecol (2004) 0.91
Improved methods for capture, extraction, and quantitative assay of environmental DNA from Asian bigheaded carp (Hypophthalmichthys spp.). PLoS One (2014) 0.90
Authenticity of ancient-DNA results: a statistical approach. Am J Hum Genet (2004) 0.90
Dissemination and survival of non-indigenous bacterial genomes in pristine Antarctic environments. Extremophiles (2005) 0.86
Diversity and distribution of alkaliphilic psychrotolerant bacteria in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau permafrost region. Extremophiles (2007) 0.85
Does the 43 bp sequence from an 800,000 year old cretan dwarf elephantid really rewrite the textbook on mammoths? Biol Lett (2007) 0.85
Evidence of authentic DNA from Danish Viking Age skeletons untouched by humans for 1,000 years. PLoS One (2008) 0.84
The transcriptional response of microbial communities in thawing Alaskan permafrost soils. Front Microbiol (2015) 0.82
Large-Scale Monitoring of Plants through Environmental DNA Metabarcoding of Soil: Recovery, Resolution, and Annotation of Four DNA Markers. PLoS One (2016) 0.80
Horizontal transfer of short and degraded DNA has evolutionary implications for microbes and eukaryotic sexual reproduction. Bioessays (2014) 0.79
Evaluating Neanderthal genetics and phylogeny. J Mol Evol (2006) 0.77
Timing and causes of mid-Holocene mammoth extinction on St. Paul Island, Alaska. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2016) 0.77
Molecular and Morphological Evidence Challenges the Records of the Extant Liverwort Ptilidium pulcherrimum in Eocene Baltic Amber. PLoS One (2015) 0.77
Methods to maximise recovery of environmental DNA from water samples. PLoS One (2017) 0.77
Sedimentary archaeal amoA gene abundance reflects historic nutrient level and salinity fluctuations in Qinghai Lake, Tibetan Plateau. Sci Rep (2015) 0.76
Ancient DNA research goes nuclear. A new technique to extract sequence data from nuclear DNA may reveal exciting new insights into evolution and phylogeny. EMBO Rep (2006) 0.75
History in a single hair. EMBO Rep (2010) 0.75
Of paleo-genes and Perch: what if an "alien" is actually a native? PLoS One (2015) 0.75
Lake sedimentary DNA accurately records 20(th) Century introductions of exotic conifers in Scotland. New Phytol (2016) 0.75
Palaeogenetics: Icy resolve. Nature (2010) 0.75
Metagenomic Analysis from the Interior of a Speleothem in Tjuv-Ante's Cave, Northern Sweden. PLoS One (2016) 0.75
Stronger and (now) longer synthetic collagen. Adv Exp Med Biol (2009) 0.75
Pelagic-benthic coupling and diagenesis of nucleic acids in a deep-sea continental margin and an open-slope system of the Eastern Mediterranean. Appl Environ Microbiol (2005) 0.75
Potential microbial contamination during sampling of permafrost soil assessed by tracers. Sci Rep (2017) 0.75
Complex species status for extinct moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes) from the genus Euryapteryx. PLoS One (2014) 0.75
Achievements and peculiarities in studies of ancient DNA and DNA from complicated forensic specimens. Acta Naturae (2009) 0.75
Genetics: new tales from ancient DNA. Nat Methods (2017) 0.75
Time to Spread Your Wings: A Review of the Avian Ancient DNA Field. Genes (Basel) (2017) 0.75
Dominant influence of HLA-B in mediating the potential co-evolution of HIV and HLA. Nature (2004) 9.53
The use of coded PCR primers enables high-throughput sequencing of multiple homolog amplification products by 454 parallel sequencing. PLoS One (2007) 9.17
Choosing appropriate substitution models for the phylogenetic analysis of protein-coding sequences. Mol Biol Evol (2005) 8.42
Metagenomics to paleogenomics: large-scale sequencing of mammoth DNA. Science (2005) 8.14
Rise and fall of the Beringian steppe bison. Science (2004) 7.91
Ancient human genome sequence of an extinct Palaeo-Eskimo. Nature (2010) 7.51
Worldwide phylogeography of wild boar reveals multiple centers of pig domestication. Science (2005) 6.92
Time dependency of molecular rate estimates and systematic overestimation of recent divergence times. Mol Biol Evol (2005) 6.77
Direct evidence of extensive diversity of HIV-1 in Kinshasa by 1960. Nature (2008) 5.05
Ancient DNA. Proc Biol Sci (2005) 4.84
An Aboriginal Australian genome reveals separate human dispersals into Asia. Science (2011) 4.84
Recharacterization of ancient DNA miscoding lesions: insights in the era of sequencing-by-synthesis. Nucleic Acids Res (2006) 4.70
Ancient DNA from European early neolithic farmers reveals their near eastern affinities. PLoS Biol (2010) 4.43
Early allelic selection in maize as revealed by ancient DNA. Science (2003) 4.38
Diagnostic and prognostic microRNAs in stage II colon cancer. Cancer Res (2008) 4.20
DNA from pre-Clovis human coprolites in Oregon, North America. Science (2008) 3.92
Origins and genetic legacy of Neolithic farmers and hunter-gatherers in Europe. Science (2012) 3.82
Ancient biomolecules from deep ice cores reveal a forested southern Greenland. Science (2007) 3.79
Subnets of scale-free networks are not scale-free: sampling properties of networks. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2005) 3.75
Estimating the size of the human interactome. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2008) 3.66
Monitoring endangered freshwater biodiversity using environmental DNA. Mol Ecol (2011) 3.45
Ancient DNA, pig domestication, and the spread of the Neolithic into Europe. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2007) 3.45
Recalibrating Equus evolution using the genome sequence of an early Middle Pleistocene horse. Nature (2013) 3.45
Ancient DNA reveals lack of continuity between neolithic hunter-gatherers and contemporary Scandinavians. Curr Biol (2009) 3.42
Novel high-resolution characterization of ancient DNA reveals C > U-type base modification events as the sole cause of post mortem miscoding lesions. Nucleic Acids Res (2007) 3.41
The isolation of nucleic acids from fixed, paraffin-embedded tissues-which methods are useful when? PLoS One (2007) 3.27
Mitochondrial genomes reveal an explosive radiation of extinct and extant bears near the Miocene-Pliocene boundary. BMC Evol Biol (2008) 3.21
Accommodating the effect of ancient DNA damage on inferences of demographic histories. Mol Biol Evol (2008) 3.07
Sequencing ancient calcified dental plaque shows changes in oral microbiota with dietary shifts of the Neolithic and Industrial revolutions. Nat Genet (2013) 3.03
Time-dependent rates of molecular evolution. Mol Ecol (2011) 2.82
Absence of Yersinia pestis-specific DNA in human teeth from five European excavations of putative plague victims. Microbiology (2004) 2.75
Genomic affinities of two 7,000-year-old Iberian hunter-gatherers. Curr Biol (2012) 2.67
A Gondwanan origin of passerine birds supported by DNA sequences of the endemic New Zealand wrens. Proc Biol Sci (2002) 2.63
Characterization of genetic miscoding lesions caused by postmortem damage. Am J Hum Genet (2002) 2.61
Mitochondrial DNA analysis shows a Near Eastern Neolithic origin for domestic cattle and no indication of domestication of European aurochs. Proc Biol Sci (2007) 2.61
Species-specific responses of Late Quaternary megafauna to climate and humans. Nature (2011) 2.60
Phylogeny and ancient DNA of Sus provides insights into neolithic expansion in Island Southeast Asia and Oceania. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2007) 2.60
Identification of endogenous retroviral reading frames in the human genome. Retrovirology (2004) 2.58
Isolation of nucleic acids and cultures from fossil ice and permafrost. Trends Ecol Evol (2004) 2.53
Complete mitochondrial genome phylogeographic analysis of killer whales (Orcinus orca) indicates multiple species. Genome Res (2010) 2.50
Distribution patterns of postmortem damage in human mitochondrial DNA. Am J Hum Genet (2002) 2.46
Discovery of a novel ERK inhibitor with activity in models of acquired resistance to BRAF and MEK inhibitors. Cancer Discov (2013) 2.43
Most of the extant mtDNA boundaries in south and southwest Asia were likely shaped during the initial settlement of Eurasia by anatomically modern humans. BMC Genet (2004) 2.37
Ancient hybridization and an Irish origin for the modern polar bear matriline. Curr Biol (2011) 2.33
The mitochondrial genome sequence of the Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus). Genome Res (2009) 2.30
Glacial survival of boreal trees in northern Scandinavia. Science (2012) 2.28
Evidence for time dependency of molecular rate estimates. Syst Biol (2007) 2.26
Synonymous substitution rates predict HIV disease progression as a result of underlying replication dynamics. PLoS Comput Biol (2007) 2.25
Ancient DNA reveals key stages in the formation of central European mitochondrial genetic diversity. Science (2013) 2.23
Accuracy of rate estimation using relaxed-clock models with a critical focus on the early metazoan radiation. Mol Biol Evol (2005) 2.22
Assessing the fidelity of ancient DNA sequences amplified from nuclear genes. Genetics (2005) 2.21
Common variants at VRK2 and TCF4 conferring risk of schizophrenia. Hum Mol Genet (2011) 2.21
Genomic evidence of geographically widespread effect of gene flow from polar bears into brown bears. Mol Ecol (2015) 2.19
Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1 domain cassettes 8 and 13 are associated with severe malaria in children. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2012) 2.17
Indo-European and Asian origins for Chilean and Pacific chickens revealed by mtDNA. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2008) 2.13
Pre-Clovis mastodon hunting 13,800 years ago at the Manis site, Washington. Science (2011) 2.11
Ancient DNA reveals late survival of mammoth and horse in interior Alaska. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2009) 2.10
The half-life of DNA in bone: measuring decay kinetics in 158 dated fossils. Proc Biol Sci (2012) 2.07
The global spread of hepatitis C virus 1a and 1b: a phylodynamic and phylogeographic analysis. PLoS Med (2009) 2.06
mapDamage: testing for damage patterns in ancient DNA sequences. Bioinformatics (2011) 2.05
Using ancient DNA to study the origins and dispersal of ancestral Polynesian chickens across the Pacific. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2014) 2.04
The earliest evidence for anatomically modern humans in northwestern Europe. Nature (2011) 2.03
Improving Bayesian population dynamics inference: a coalescent-based model for multiple loci. Mol Biol Evol (2012) 2.02
Frequent occurrence of uniparental disomy in colorectal cancer. Carcinogenesis (2006) 1.99
Was the Black Death caused by Yersinia pestis? Lancet Infect Dis (2004) 1.91
Skyline-plot methods for estimating demographic history from nucleotide sequences. Mol Ecol Resour (2011) 1.90
Model criticism based on likelihood-free inference, with an application to protein network evolution. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2009) 1.89
True single-molecule DNA sequencing of a pleistocene horse bone. Genome Res (2011) 1.88
Extreme reversed sexual size dimorphism in the extinct New Zealand moa Dinornis. Nature (2003) 1.85
Critical review of host specificity and its coevolutionary implications in the fig/fig-wasp mutualism. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2005) 1.84
The genetic origins of the Andaman Islanders. Am J Hum Genet (2002) 1.82
Ancient bacteria show evidence of DNA repair. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2007) 1.81