Germonpre, Mietje, Sabli, Mikhail V., Stevens, Rhiannon E., Hedges, Robert E.M., Hofreiter, Michael, Stiller, Mathias, ...
Krause, Johannes, Unger, Tina, Noçon, Aline, Malaspinas, Anna-Sapfo, Kolokotronis, Sergios-Orestis, Stiller, Mathias, ...
Abstract Background Despite being one of the most studied families within the Carnivora, the phylogenetic relationships among the members of the bear family (Ursidae) have long remained unclear....
Meyer, Matthias, Briggs, Adrian W., Maricic, Tomislav, Höber, Barbara, Höffner, Barbara, Krause, Johannes, ...
Richards, Michael P., Pacher, Martina, Stiller, Mathias, Quilès, Jérôme, Hofreiter, Michael, Constantin, Silviu, ...
Valdiosera, Cristina E., García-Garitagoitia, José Luis, Garcia, Nuria, Doadrio, Ignacio, Thomas, Mark G., Hänni, Catherine, ...
DNA from Pre-Clovis Human Coprolites in Oregon, North America (2008)
Thomas, M., Gilbert, P., Jenkins, Dennis L., Götherstrom, Anders, Naveran, Nuria, Sanchez, Juan J., ...
Krause, Johannes, Unger, Tina, Noçon, Aline, Malaspinas, Anna-Sapfo, Kolokotronis, Sergios-Orestis, Stiller, Matthias, ...
Ancient DNA from human and animal remains from North-West Iran (2008)
Mohandesan, E., Mowla, S. J., Noobari, A. H., Hofreiter, Michael
Morphological responses of cave bears (Ursus spelaeus group) to high-alpine habitats (2008)
Rabeder, Gernot, Debeljak, Irena, Hofreiter, Michael, Withalm, Gerhard
Meyer, Matthias, Briggs, Adrian W., Maricic, Tomislav, Höber, Barbara, Höffner, Barbara, Krause, Johannes, ...
Current efforts to recover the Neandertal and mammoth genomes by 454 DNA sequencing demonstrate the sensitivity of this technology. However, routine 454 sequencing applications still require...
Targeted high-throughput sequencing of tagged nucleic acid samples (2007)
Meyer, Matthias, Stenzel, Udo, Myles, Sean, Prüfer, Kay, Hofreiter, Michael
High-throughput 454 DNA sequencing technology allows much faster and more cost-effective sequencing than traditional Sanger sequencing. However, the technology imposes inherent limitations on the...
Nadin Rohland, Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas, Joshua L. Pollack, Montgomery Slatkin, Paul Matheus, Michael Hofreiter
We have sequenced the complete mitochondrial genome of the extinct American mastodon (Mammut americanum) from an Alaskan fossil that is between 50,000 and 130,000 y old, extending the age range of...
Learning from the past: evolution of GPCR functions (2007)
Schöneberg, Torsten, Hofreiter, Michael, Schulz, Angela, Römpler, Holger
Sudden replacement of cave bear mitochondrial DNA in the late Pleistocene (2007)
Hofreiter, Michael, Münzel, Susanne, Conard, Nicholas J., Pollack, Joshua, Slatkin, Montgomery, Weiss, Gunter, ...
Ancient Biomolecules from Deep Ice Cores Reveal a Forested Southern Greenland (2007)
Willerslev, Eske, Cappellini, Enrico, Boomsma, Wouter, Nielsen, Rasmus, Hebsgaard, Martin B., Brand, Tina B., ...
Animal DNA in PCR reagents plagues ancient DNA research (2007)
Leonard, Jennifer A., Shanks, Orin, Hofreiter, Michael, Kreuz, Eva, Hodges, Larry, Ream, Walt, ...
Targeted high-throughput sequencing of tagged nucleic acid samples (2007)
Meyer, Matthias, Stenzel, Udo, Myles, Sean, Prüfer, Kay, Hofreiter, Michael
Rohland, Nadin, Malaspinas, Anna-Sapfo, Pollack, Joshua L., Slatkin, Montgomery, Matheus, Paul, Hofreiter, Michael
A Melanocortin 1 Receptor Allele Suggests Varying Pigmentation Among Neanderthals (2007)
Lalueza-Fox, Carles, Römpler, Holger, Caramelli, David, Stäubert, Claudia, Catalano, Giulio, Hughes, David, ...
Molecular breeding of polymerases for amplification of ancient DNA (2007)
D'Abbadie, Marc, Hofreiter, Michael, Vaisman, Alexandra, Loakes, David, Gasparutto, Didier, Cadet, Jean, ...
G Protein-Coupled Time Travel: Evolutionary Aspects of GPCR Research (2007)
Römpler, Holger, Stäubert, Claudia, Thor, Doreen, Schulz, Angela, Hofreiter, Michael, Schöneberg, Torsten
Multiplex amplification of the mammoth mitochondrial genome and the evolution of Elephantidae (2006)
Krause, Johannes, Dear, Paul H., Pollack, Joshua L., Slatkin, Montgomery, Spriggs, Helen, Barnes, Ian, ...
Multiplex amplification of ancient DNA (2006)
Römpler, Holger, Dear, Paul H., Krause, Johannes, Meyer, Matthias, Rohland, Nadin, Schöneberg, Torsten, ...
Nuclear Gene Indicates Coat-Color Polymorphism in Mammoths (2006)
Römpler, Holger, Rohland, Nadin, Lalueza-Fox, Charles, Willerslev, Eske, Kuznetsova, Tatyana, Rabeder, Gernot, ...
No evidence of Neanderthal mtDNA contribution to early modern humans (2006)
Serre, David, Langaney, A., Chech, M., Teschler-Nicola, M., Paunovic, M., Mennecier, P., ...
Tenrec Phylogeny and the Noninvasive Extraction of Nuclear DNA (2006)
Asher, Robert J., Hofreiter, Michael
Due in part to scarcity of material, no published study has yet cladistically addressed the systematics of living and fossil Tenrecidae (Mammalia, Afrotheria). Using a noninvasive technique for...
Genomic sequencing of Pleistocene cave bears (2005)
Noonan, James P., Hofreiter, Michael, Smith, Doug, Priest, James R., Rohland, Nadin, Rabeder, Gernot, ...
Despite the information content of genomic DNA, ancient DNA studies to date have largely been limited to amplification of mitochondrial DNA due to technical hurdles such as contamination and...
Nuclear insertions help and hinder inference of the evolutionary history of gorilla mtDNA (2005)
Thalmann, Olaf, Serre, David, Hofreiter, Michael, Lukas, Dieter, Eriksson, Jonas, Vigilant, Linda
Genomic sequencing of Pleistocene Cave Bears (2005)
Noonan, James P., Hofreiter, Michael, Smith, Doug, Priest, James R., Rohland, Nadin, Rabeder, Gernot, ...
Despite the greater information content of genomic DNA, ancient DNA studies have largely been limited to the amplification of mitochondrial sequences. Here we describe metagenomic libraries...
Assessing ancient DNA studies (2005)
Gilbert, M. T. P., Bandelt, H. J., Hofreiter, Michael, Barnes, I.
A rapid loss of stripes: the evolutionary history of the extinct quagga (2005)
Leonard, J. A., Rohland, Nadin, Glaberman, S., Fleischer, R. C., Caccone, A., Hofreiter, Michael
The population history of extant and extinct hyenas (2005)
Rohland, Nadin, Pollack, J. L., Nagel, D., Beauval, C., Airvaux, J., Pääbo, Svante, ...
The Population History of Extant and Extinct Hyenas (2005)
Rohland, Nadin, Pollack, Joshua L., Nagel, Doris, Beauval, Cédric, Airvaux, Jean, Pääbo, Svante, ...
We have analyzed partial DNA sequences of the mitochondrial (mt) cytochrome-B gene from extant striped, brown and spotted hyenas as well as from Pleistocene cave hyenas. Sequences of the Pleistocene...
The Population History of Extant and Extinct Hyenas (2005)
Rohland, Nadin, Pollack, Joshua L., Nagel, Doris, Beauval, Cédric, Airvaux, Jean, Pääbo, Svante, ...
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. Sequences of the Pleistocene cave...
The Population History of Extant and Extinct Hyenas (2005)
Rohland, Nadin, Pollack, Joshua L., Nagel, Doris, Beauval, Cédric, Airvaux, Jean, Pääbo, Svante, ...
We have analyzed partial DNA sequences of the mitochondrial (mt) cytochrome-B gene from extant striped, brown and spotted hyenas as well as from Pleistocene cave hyenas. Sequences of the Pleistocene...
No Evidence of Neandertal mtDNA Contribution to Early Modern Humans (2004)
David Serre, André Langaney, Mario Chech, Maria Teschler-Nicola, Maja Paunovic, Philippe Mennecier, ...
Analysis of mitochondrial DNA from four Neandertal fossils and five "modern human" contemporaries excludes any large genetic contribution of Neandertals to the gene pool of modern humans.
No Evidence of Neandertal mtDNA Contribution to Early Modern Humans (2004)
David Serre, André Langaney, Mario Chech, Maria Teschler-Nicola, Maja Paunovic, Philippe Mennecier, ...
The retrieval of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences from four Neandertal fossils from Germany, Russia, and Croatia has demonstrated that these individuals carried closely related mtDNAs that are not...
Pleistocene brown bears in the mid-continent of North America (2004)
Matheus, Paul, Burns, James, Weinstock, Jaco, Hofreiter, Michael
Current biogeographic models hypothesize that brown bears migrated from Asia to the New World ~100 to 50 thousand years ago but did not reach areas south of Beringia until ~13 to 12 thousand years...
Evidence for reproductive isolation between cave bear populations (2004)
Hofreiter, Michael, Rabeder, G., Jänicke-Despres, Viviane, Withalm, G., Nagel, D., Paunovic, M., ...
Lack of phylogeography in European mammals before the last glaciation (2004)
Hofreiter, Michael, Serre, David, Nadin, Rohland, Rabeder, Gernot, Nagel, Doris, Conard, Nicholas, ...
New Taxa of Alpine Cave Bears (Ursidae, Carnivora) (2004)
Rabeder, Gernot, Hofreiter, Michael, Nagel, Doris, Withalm, Gerhard
Ongoing Controversy over Romanov Remains : Letter (2004)
Hofreiter, Michael, Loreille, O., Ferriola, D., Parsons, T. J.
Genetic analyses from ancient DNA (2004)
Pääbo, Svante, Poinar, Hendrik, Serre, David, Jaenicke-Després, Viviane, Hebler, Juliane, Rohland, Nadin, ...
No evidence of Neandertal mtDNA contribution to early modern humans (2004)
Serre, David, Langaney, A., Chell, M., Teschler-Nicola, M., Paunovic, M., Mennecier, P., ...
The retrieval of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences from four Neandertal fossils from Germany, Russia, and Croatia has demonstrated that these individuals carried closely related mtDNAs that are not...
Mitochondrial DNA Sequence From an Enigmatic Gorilla Population (Gorilla gorilla uellensis) (2003)
Hofreiter, Michael, Siedel, Heike, Van Neer, Wim, Vigilant, Linda
Hofreiter, Michael, Betancourt, Julio L., Pelliza Sbriller, Alicia, Markgraf, Vera, McDonald, H. Gregory
Hofreiter, Michael, Capelli, C., Krings, M., Waits, L., Conard, N., Munzel, S., ...
Cave bears (Ursus spelaeus) existed in Europe and western Asia until the end of the last glaciation some 10,000 years ago. To investigate the genetic diversity, population history, and relationship...
Die neue Taxonomy der Höhlenbären (2002)
Rabeder, G., Hofreiter, Michael, Nagel, D., Pääbo, Svante, Withalm, G.
Genetic analyses of late Pleistocene cave bears (Ursus spelaeus) / (2002)
Leipzig, University, Diss., 2002.
Hofreiter, Michael, Capelli, Cristian, Krings, Matthias, Waits, Lisette, Conard, Nicholas, Münzel, Susanne, ...
Cave bears (Ursus spelaeus) existed in Europe and western Asia until the end of the last glaciation some 10,000 years ago. To investigate the genetic diversity, population history, and relationship...
Paternity and relatedness in wild chimpanzee communities. (2001)
Vigilant, Linda, Hofreiter, Michael, Siedel, Heike, Boesch, Christophe
Paternity and relatedness in wild chimpanzee communities. (2001)
Vigilant, Linda, Hofreiter, Michael, Siedel, Heike, Boesch, Christophe
A molecular analysis of ground sloth diet through the last glaciation. (2000)
Hofreiter, Michael, Poinar, Hendrik, Spaulding, W. G., Bauer, K., Martin, P. S., Possnert, G., ...
Molecular coproscopy: Dung and diet of the extinct ground sloth Nothrotheriops shastensis (1998)
Poinar, Hendrik N., Hofreiter, Michael, Spaulding, W. Geoffrey, Martin, Paul S., Stankiewicz, B. Artur, Bland, Helen, ...
Paternity and relatedness in wild chimpanzee communities
Vigilant, Linda, Hofreiter, Michael, Siedel, Heike, Boesch, Christophe
The genetic structure of three contiguous wild chimpanzee communities in West Africa was examined to determine the extent to which the community, the mixed-sex social unit of chimpanzees, represents...
Hofreiter, Michael, Jaenicke, Viviane, Serre, David, Haeseler, Arndt Von, Pääbo, Svante
We show that DNA molecules amplified by PCR from DNA extracted from animal bones and teeth that vary in age between 25 000 and over 50 000 years carry C→T and G→A substitutions. These...
No Evidence of Neandertal mtDNA Contribution to Early Modern Humans
Serre, David, Langaney, André, Chech, Mario, Teschler-Nicola, Maria, Paunovic, Maja, Mennecier, Philippe, ...
The retrieval of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences from four Neandertal fossils from Germany, Russia, and Croatia has demonstrated that these individuals carried closely related mtDNAs that are not...
Lack of phylogeography in European mammals before the last glaciation
Hofreiter, Michael, Serre, David, Rohland, Nadin, Rabeder, Gernot, Nagel, Doris, Conard, Nicholas, ...
In many extant animal and plant species in Europe and North America a correlation exists between the geographical location of individuals and the genetic relatedness of the mitochondrial (mt) DNA...
Paternity and relatedness in wild chimpanzee communities
Vigilant, Linda, Hofreiter, Michael, Siedel, Heike, Boesch, Christophe
The genetic structure of three contiguous wild chimpanzee communities in West Africa was examined to determine the extent to which the community, the mixed-sex social unit of chimpanzees, represents...
Hofreiter, Michael, Jaenicke, Viviane, Serre, David, Haeseler, Arndt Von, Pääbo, Svante
We show that DNA molecules amplified by PCR from DNA extracted from animal bones and teeth that vary in age between 25 000 and over 50 000 years carry C→T and G→A substitutions. These...
No Evidence of Neandertal mtDNA Contribution to Early Modern Humans
Serre, David, Langaney, André, Chech, Mario, Teschler-Nicola, Maria, Paunovic, Maja, Mennecier, Philippe, ...
The retrieval of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences from four Neandertal fossils from Germany, Russia, and Croatia has demonstrated that these individuals carried closely related mtDNAs that are not...
Lack of phylogeography in European mammals before the last glaciation
Hofreiter, Michael, Serre, David, Rohland, Nadin, Rabeder, Gernot, Nagel, Doris, Conard, Nicholas, ...
In many extant animal and plant species in Europe and North America a correlation exists between the geographical location of individuals and the genetic relatedness of the mitochondrial (mt) DNA...
Proboscidean Mitogenomics: Chronology and Mode of Elephant Evolution Using Mastodon as Outgroup
Rohland, Nadin, Malaspinas, Anna-Sapfo, Pollack, Joshua L, Slatkin, Montgomery, Matheus, Paul, Hofreiter, Michael
We have sequenced the complete mitochondrial genome of the extinct American mastodon (Mammut americanum) from an Alaskan fossil that is between 50,000 and 130,000 y old, extending the age range of...
Targeted high-throughput sequencing of tagged nucleic acid samples
Meyer, Matthias, Stenzel, Udo, Myles, Sean, Prüfer, Kay, Hofreiter, Michael
High-throughput 454 DNA sequencing technology allows much faster and more cost-effective sequencing than traditional Sanger sequencing. However, the technology imposes inherent limitations on the...
A rapid loss of stripes: the evolutionary history of the extinct quagga
Leonard, Jennifer A, Rohland, Nadin, Glaberman, Scott, Fleischer, Robert C, Caccone, Adalgisa, Hofreiter, Michael
Twenty years ago, the field of ancient DNA was launched with the publication of two short mitochondrial (mt) DNA sequences from a single quagga (Equus quagga) museum skin, an extinct South African...
Meyer, Matthias, Briggs, Adrian W., Maricic, Tomislav, Höber, Barbara, Höffner, Barbara, Krause, Johannes, ...
Current efforts to recover the Neandertal and mammoth genomes by 454 DNA sequencing demonstrate the sensitivity of this technology. However, routine 454 sequencing applications still require...
Richards, Michael P., Pacher, Martina, Stiller, Mathias, Quilès, Jérôme, Hofreiter, Michael, Constantin, Silviu, ...
Previous bone collagen carbon and nitrogen isotopic studies of Late Pleistocene European cave bears (Ursus spelaeus) have shown that these bears frequently had low nitrogen isotope values, similar to...
Krause, Johannes, Unger, Tina, Noçon, Aline, Malaspinas, Anna-Sapfo, Kolokotronis, Sergios-Orestis, Stiller, Mathias, ...
Surprising migration and population size dynamics in ancient Iberian brown bears (Ursus arctos)
Valdiosera, Cristina E., García-Garitagoitia, José Luis, Garcia, Nuria, Doadrio, Ignacio, Thomas, Mark G., Hänni, Catherine, ...
The endangered brown bear populations (Ursus arctos) in Iberia have been suggested to be the last fragments of the brown bear population that served as recolonization stock for large parts of Europe...