New Ice Age species just dropped! 🦴🧬 Check out our study in @currentbiology.bsky.social where we identified an extinct megafaunal species previously unknown to genomics from small non-diagnostic bone fragments at Denisova Cave and southern Siberia. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Fun collaboration between Xiaole Lei & He Yu in Bejing, and @alexgilardet.bsky.social & @rakkel-tx.bsky.social at #CpgSthlm Of particular interest, the Altai seems to have functioned as a Long-Term Refugium (sensu Stewart et al 2010, Proc Roy B) & diversity driver. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Paleogenomics and habitat modeling reveal temperate Eurasian origins of woolly rhinoceroses

The woolly rhinoceros was a prominent Ice Age megafaunal species, and there is limited knowledge regarding its origin and responses to past glacial cycles. We sequenced 29 mitochondrial and 14 nuclear genomes from Pleistocene specimens across Eurasia and ...

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Our manuscript on bovine deep-time paleogenomics at Denisova Cave and in the broader mid-latitude Asia is online! doi.org/10.1093/gbe/... 🦬🦴🧬 Main findings in the 🧵 below ⬇️ @cpgsthlm.bsky.social @genomebiolevol.bsky.social #aDNA

Paleogenomics Reveals a Loss of Bovine Lineages in Mid-latitude Asia Over the Last 200,000 Years

Abstract. Bovines have a complex yet poorly understood evolutionary history that is characterized by admixture and diversity loss during the Late Pleistoce

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#ESEB2025 museomics: lastly, please help @alexgilardet.bsky.social help George ask Love to invest in automatic robots to help in the lab 💪 or follow the new methods and validations developed by Alex that he is explaining today in his talk! (sorry for the rainbow effect) @cpgsthlm.bsky.social

The FIRST International Conference on Palaeogenomics will happen in Stockholm, Sweden, June 23-26, 2026! Topics will encompass all corners of ancient DNA research, from humans to wildlife and sediments🧬🦣💀🦠 Save the dates ✅ Check the website icp2026.palaeogenomics.org and follow us for updates!

Had the opportunity to chat about @poojaswali.bsky.social's study on louse-borne relapsing fever on the French radio today 🧬🦠 www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur... @franceculture.fr @radiofrance.fr @crick.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk

Quand la laine a favorisé l’émergence d’une maladie bactérienne

Contrairement aux autres borrélioses, Borrelia recurrentis se transmet par les poux et non les tiques. Une nouvelle étude montre que cette transition s’est produit il y a 5000 ans au Néolithique, quan...

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Excited to announce our paper on ancient Borrelia genomes is finally out! 🦠💀We document the evolutionary history of louse-borne relapsing fever, published today in @science.org‬ with @lucyvandorp.bsky.social and @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social #aDNA 🏺🧪🧬 Main findings and paper below: 🧵⬇️

Congrats to our students @alexgilardet.bsky.social and Chenyu Jin for their successful Licentiate defense and half-time PhD seminar! 🎉

A high-throughput aDNA extraction method for large-scale sample screening 🦣🦬🧬 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A High‐Throughput Ancient DNA Extraction Method for Large‐Scale Sample Screening

Large-scale DNA screening of palaeontological and archaeological collections remains a limiting and costly factor for ancient DNA studies. Several DNA extraction protocols are routinely used in ancie...

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