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Eske Willerslev

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1 The use of coded PCR primers enables high-throughput sequencing of multiple homolog amplification products by 454 parallel sequencing. PLoS One 2007 9.17
2 Rise and fall of the Beringian steppe bison. Science 2004 7.91
3 Ancient human genome sequence of an extinct Palaeo-Eskimo. Nature 2010 7.51
4 Worldwide phylogeography of wild boar reveals multiple centers of pig domestication. Science 2005 6.92
5 Power and limitations of the chloroplast trnL (UAA) intron for plant DNA barcoding. Nucleic Acids Res 2006 5.31
6 An Aboriginal Australian genome reveals separate human dispersals into Asia. Science 2011 4.84
7 Recharacterization of ancient DNA miscoding lesions: insights in the era of sequencing-by-synthesis. Nucleic Acids Res 2006 4.70
8 DNA from pre-Clovis human coprolites in Oregon, North America. Science 2008 3.92
9 Origins and genetic legacy of Neolithic farmers and hunter-gatherers in Europe. Science 2012 3.82
10 Monitoring endangered freshwater biodiversity using environmental DNA. Mol Ecol 2011 3.45
11 Recalibrating Equus evolution using the genome sequence of an early Middle Pleistocene horse. Nature 2013 3.45
12 Ancient DNA reveals lack of continuity between neolithic hunter-gatherers and contemporary Scandinavians. Curr Biol 2009 3.42
13 Whole-genome shotgun sequencing of mitochondria from ancient hair shafts. Science 2007 2.85
14 Detection of a diverse marine fish fauna using environmental DNA from seawater samples. PLoS One 2012 2.75
15 Characterization of genetic miscoding lesions caused by postmortem damage. Am J Hum Genet 2002 2.61
16 Species-specific responses of Late Quaternary megafauna to climate and humans. Nature 2011 2.60
17 Complete mitochondrial genome phylogeographic analysis of killer whales (Orcinus orca) indicates multiple species. Genome Res 2010 2.50
18 Distribution patterns of postmortem damage in human mitochondrial DNA. Am J Hum Genet 2002 2.46
19 Towards next-generation biodiversity assessment using DNA metabarcoding. Mol Ecol 2012 2.43
20 Radiation of extant cetaceans driven by restructuring of the oceans. Syst Biol 2009 2.33
21 Ancient hybridization and an Irish origin for the modern polar bear matriline. Curr Biol 2011 2.33
22 Glacial survival of boreal trees in northern Scandinavia. Science 2012 2.28
23 Assessing the fidelity of ancient DNA sequences amplified from nuclear genes. Genetics 2005 2.21
24 Paleo-Eskimo mtDNA genome reveals matrilineal discontinuity in Greenland. Science 2008 2.19
25 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
26 Statistical assignment of DNA sequences using Bayesian phylogenetics. Syst Biol 2008 2.13
27 Pre-Clovis mastodon hunting 13,800 years ago at the Manis site, Washington. Science 2011 2.11
28 Ancient DNA reveals late survival of mammoth and horse in interior Alaska. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2009 2.10
29 The half-life of DNA in bone: measuring decay kinetics in 158 dated fossils. Proc Biol Sci 2012 2.07
30 mapDamage: testing for damage patterns in ancient DNA sequences. Bioinformatics 2011 2.05
31 True single-molecule DNA sequencing of a pleistocene horse bone. Genome Res 2011 1.88
32 Extreme reversed sexual size dimorphism in the extinct New Zealand moa Dinornis. Nature 2003 1.85
33 The genetic origins of the Andaman Islanders. Am J Hum Genet 2002 1.82
34 Ancient bacteria show evidence of DNA repair. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007 1.81
35 Nuclear gene indicates coat-color polymorphism in mammoths. Science 2006 1.77
36 Geologically ancient DNA: fact or artefact? Trends Microbiol 2005 1.71
37 A 10,000-year record of Arctic Ocean sea-ice variability--view from the beach. Science 2011 1.70
38 Long-term persistence of bacterial DNA. Curr Biol 2004 1.70
39 Genomic diversity and evolution of the head crest in the rock pigeon. Science 2013 1.68
40 Ecological, morphological and genetic divergence of sympatric North Atlantic killer whale populations. Mol Ecol 2009 1.65
41 Meta-barcoding of 'dirt' DNA from soil reflects vertebrate biodiversity. Mol Ecol 2011 1.63
42 Proteomic analysis of a pleistocene mammoth femur reveals more than one hundred ancient bone proteins. J Proteome Res 2011 1.62
43 Improving ancient DNA read mapping against modern reference genomes. BMC Genomics 2012 1.59
44 Identification of microsatellites from an extinct moa species using high-throughput (454) sequence data. Biotechniques 2009 1.59
45 Ancient DNA analyses exclude humans as the driving force behind late Pleistocene musk ox (Ovibos moschatus) population dynamics. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010 1.55
46 Molecular- and pollen-based vegetation analysis in lake sediments from central Scandinavia. Mol Ecol 2013 1.55
47 Intraspecific phylogenetic analysis of Siberian woolly mammoths using complete mitochondrial genomes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2008 1.53
48 More on contamination: the use of asymmetric molecular behavior to identify authentic ancient human DNA. Mol Biol Evol 2007 1.53
49 One hundred twenty years of koala retrovirus evolution determined from museum skins. Mol Biol Evol 2012 1.51
50 Damage and repair of ancient DNA. Mutat Res 2005 1.46
51 Evolution. The origin of insects. Science 2006 1.45
52 Multidisciplinary medical identification of a French king's head (Henri IV). BMJ 2010 1.45
53 Ancient DNA chronology within sediment deposits: are paleobiological reconstructions possible and is DNA leaching a factor? Mol Biol Evol 2007 1.44
54 Crosslinks rather than strand breaks determine access to ancient DNA sequences from frozen sediments. Genetics 2006 1.44
55 Evolution, systematics, and phylogeography of pleistocene horses in the new world: a molecular perspective. PLoS Biol 2005 1.42
56 Molecular diet analysis of two african free-tailed bats (molossidae) using high throughput sequencing. PLoS One 2011 1.41
57 Screening mammal biodiversity using DNA from leeches. Curr Biol 2012 1.37
58 Fossil avian eggshell preserves ancient DNA. Proc Biol Sci 2010 1.28
59 Fast phylogenetic DNA barcoding. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2008 1.27
60 Non-destructive sampling of ancient insect DNA. PLoS One 2009 1.25
61 Positive selection on the killer whale mitogenome. Biol Lett 2010 1.25
62 Application and comparison of large-scale solution-based DNA capture-enrichment methods on ancient DNA. Sci Rep 2011 1.25
63 Aerial photographs reveal late-20th-century dynamic ice loss in northwestern Greenland. Science 2012 1.25
64 Out of the Pacific and back again: insights into the matrilineal history of Pacific killer whale ecotypes. PLoS One 2011 1.23
65 Beringian paleoecology inferred from permafrost-preserved fungal DNA. Appl Environ Microbiol 2005 1.22
66 Discovery of lost diversity of paternal horse lineages using ancient DNA. Nat Commun 2011 1.20
67 A comparative study of ancient sedimentary DNA, pollen and macrofossils from permafrost sediments of northern Siberia reveals long-term vegetational stability. Mol Ecol 2012 1.20
68 Ancient mitochondrial DNA from hair. Curr Biol 2004 1.19
69 New environmental metabarcodes for analysing soil DNA: potential for studying past and present ecosystems. Mol Ecol 2012 1.18
70 Bacterial natural transformation by highly fragmented and damaged DNA. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2013 1.15
71 Partial genetic turnover in neandertals: continuity in the East and population replacement in the West. Mol Biol Evol 2012 1.14
72 Barking up the wrong tree: modern northern European dogs fail to explain their origin. BMC Evol Biol 2008 1.14
73 A simple method for the parallel deep sequencing of full influenza A genomes. J Virol Methods 2011 1.14
74 Variola virus in a 300-year-old Siberian mummy. N Engl J Med 2012 1.14
75 Genome-wide nucleosome map and cytosine methylation levels of an ancient human genome. Genome Res 2013 1.12
76 Genetic evidence for patrilocal mating behavior among Neandertal groups. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010 1.12
77 Profiling the dead: generating microsatellite data from fossil bones of extinct megafauna--protocols, problems, and prospects. PLoS One 2011 1.11
78 Blocking human contaminant DNA during PCR allows amplification of rare mammal species from sedimentary ancient DNA. Mol Ecol 2011 1.10
79 Next-generation sequencing offers new insights into DNA degradation. Trends Biotechnol 2012 1.10
80 Ligation bias in illumina next-generation DNA libraries: implications for sequencing ancient genomes. PLoS One 2013 1.09
81 Mitogenomic phylogenetic analyses of the Delphinidae with an emphasis on the Globicephalinae. BMC Evol Biol 2011 1.07
82 Bayesian inference of the metazoan phylogeny; a combined molecular and morphological approach. Curr Biol 2004 1.06
83 Identification of Polynesian mtDNA haplogroups in remains of Botocudo Amerindians from Brazil. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2013 1.06
84 High-throughput sequencing of core STR loci for forensic genetic investigations using the Roche Genome Sequencer FLX platform. Biotechniques 2011 1.06
85 Genetic differentiation among North Atlantic killer whale populations. Mol Ecol 2010 1.02
86 Ancient DNA sequences point to a large loss of mitochondrial genetic diversity in the saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica) since the Pleistocene. Mol Ecol 2010 1.01
87 Contamination in the draft of the human genome masquerades as lateral gene transfer. DNA Seq 2002 1.00
88 Mitogenome sequencing reveals shallow evolutionary histories and recent divergence time between morphologically and ecologically distinct European whitefish (Coregonus spp.). Mol Ecol 2012 0.99
89 The last Viking King: a royal maternity case solved by ancient DNA analysis. Forensic Sci Int 2006 0.97
90 Ancient DNA reveals that bowhead whale lineages survived Late Pleistocene climate change and habitat shifts. Nat Commun 2013 0.97
91 The evolutionary history of cockatoos (Aves: Psittaciformes: Cacatuidae). Mol Phylogenet Evol 2011 0.97
92 Reconstructing genome evolution in historic samples of the Irish potato famine pathogen. Nat Commun 2013 0.95
93 The effect of ancient DNA damage on inferences of demographic histories. Mol Biol Evol 2008 0.94
94 DNA in ancient bone - where is it located and how should we extract it? Ann Anat 2011 0.94
95 800,000 year old mammoth DNA, modern elephant DNA or PCR artefact? Biol Lett 2007 0.92
96 Improving the performance of true single molecule sequencing for ancient DNA. BMC Genomics 2012 0.92
97 5'-tailed sequencing primers improve sequencing quality of PCR products. Biotechniques 2007 0.91
98 Ancient DNA reveals traces of Iberian Neolithic and Bronze Age lineages in modern Iberian horses. Mol Ecol 2009 0.91
99 Clovis age Western Stemmed projectile points and human coprolites at the Paisley Caves. Science 2012 0.89
100 Fungal palaeodiversity revealed using high-throughput metabarcoding of ancient DNA from arctic permafrost. Environ Microbiol 2012 0.88
101 Islands in the ice: detecting past vegetation on Greenlandic nunataks using historical records and sedimentary ancient DNA meta-barcoding. Mol Ecol 2011 0.88
102 mtDNA analysis of human remains from an early Danish Christian cemetery. Am J Phys Anthropol 2005 0.87
103 Large-scale transcriptome data reveals transcriptional activity of fission yeast LTR retrotransposons. BMC Genomics 2010 0.87
104 50,000 years of genetic uniformity in the critically endangered Iberian lynx. Mol Ecol 2011 0.86
105 Rodents of the Caribbean: origin and diversification of hutias unravelled by next-generation museomics. Biol Lett 2014 0.86
106 A multidisciplinary study of archaeological grape seeds. Naturwissenschaften 2009 0.85
107 Retrotransposons and non-protein coding RNAs. Brief Funct Genomic Proteomic 2009 0.84
108 Does selection against transcriptional interference shape retroelement-free regions in mammalian genomes? PLoS One 2008 0.83
109 A preliminary analysis of the DNA and diet of the extinct Beothuk: a systematic approach to ancient human DNA. Am J Phys Anthropol 2007 0.83
110 Ancient DNA: would the real Neandertal please stand up? Curr Biol 2004 0.83
111 Statistical guidelines for detecting past population shifts using ancient DNA. Mol Biol Evol 2012 0.83
112 DNA from keratinous tissue. Part I: hair and nail. Ann Anat 2011 0.82
113 Deep sequencing of RNA from ancient maize kernels. PLoS One 2013 0.82
114 DNA from keratinous tissue. Part II: feather. Ann Anat 2011 0.81
115 Authenticity in ancient DNA studies. Med Secoli 2006 0.80
116 Finding the founder of Stockholm - a kinship study based on Y-chromosomal, autosomal and mitochondrial DNA. Ann Anat 2011 0.79
117 Horizontal transfer of short and degraded DNA has evolutionary implications for microbes and eukaryotic sexual reproduction. Bioessays 2014 0.79
118 Panspermia--true or false? Lancet 2003 0.79
119 Evaluating Neanderthal genetics and phylogeny. J Mol Evol 2006 0.77
120 Can identification of a fourth domain of life be made from sequence data alone, and could it be done on Mars? Astrobiology 2007 0.77
121 Bone marrow and bone as a source for postmortem RNA. J Forensic Sci 2011 0.76
122 King Tutankhamun's family and demise. JAMA 2010 0.76
123 Cutavirus in Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma. Emerg Infect Dis 2017 0.75
124 Rescuing ancient DNA. Nat Biotechnol 2007 0.75
125 Corrigendum. Mol Ecol 2014 0.75