Standout Papers

Dynamics of mitochondrial DNA evolution in animals: amplification and sequencing with conserv... 1989 2026 2001 2013 4.2k
  1. Dynamics of mitochondrial DNA evolution in animals: amplification and sequencing with conserved primers. (1989)
    Thomas D. Kocher, W. Kelley Thomas et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  2. Distribution, silencing potential and evolutionary impact of promoter DNA methylation in the human genome (2007)
    Michaël Weber, Ines Hellmann et al. Nature Genetics
  3. Molecular systematics (1991)
    Svante Pääbo Trends in Genetics
  4. Mitochondrial genome variation and the origin of modern humans (2000)
    Max Ingman, Henrik Kaessmann et al. Nature
  5. Genetic Analyses from Ancient DNA (2004)
    Svante Pääbo, Hendrik N. Poinar et al. Annual Review of Genetics
  6. Molecular evolution of FOXP2, a gene involved in speech and language (2002)
    Wolfgang Enard, Molly Przeworski et al. Nature
  7. The evolution of gene expression levels in mammalian organs (2011)
    David Brawand, Magali Soumillon et al. Nature
  8. Complete mitochondrial genome sequence of a Middle Pleistocene cave bear reconstructed from ultrashort DNA fragments (2013)
    Jesse Dabney, Michael Knapp et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  9. Deep proteome and transcriptome mapping of a human cancer cell line (2011)
    Nagarjuna Nagaraj, Jacek R. Wiśniewski et al. Molecular Systems Biology
  10. Neandertal DNA Sequences and the Origin of Modern Humans (1997)
    Matthias Krings, Anne C. Stone et al. Cell
  11. Human cerebral organoids recapitulate gene expression programs of fetal neocortex development (2015)
    J. Gray Camp, Marta Florio et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  12. Ancient DNA: extraction, characterization, molecular cloning, and enzymatic amplification. (1989)
    Svante Pääbo Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  13. Intra- and Interspecific Variation in Primate Gene Expression Patterns (2002)
    Wolfgang Enard, Philipp Khaitovich et al. Science
  14. The genomic landscape of Neanderthal ancestry in present-day humans (2014)
    Sriram Sankararaman, Swapan Mallick et al. Nature
  15. Patterns of damage in genomic DNA sequences from a Neandertal (2007)
    Adrian W. Briggs, Udo Stenzel et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  16. Ancient DNA (2001)
    Michael Hofreiter, David Serre et al. Nature Reviews Genetics
  17. Amino Acid Analysis and Enzymatic Sequence Determination of Peptides by an Improvedo-Phthaldialdehyde Precolumn Labeling Procedure (1981)
    Barry Jones, Svante Pääbo et al. Journal of Liquid Chromatography
  18. The complete mitochondrial DNA genome of an unknown hominin from southern Siberia (2010)
    Johannes Krause, Qiaomei Fu et al. Nature
  19. Global Patterns of Linkage Disequilibrium at the CD4 Locus and Modern Human Origins (1996)
    Sarah A. Tishkoff, E. Dietzsch et al. Science
  20. Parallel Patterns of Evolution in the Genomes and Transcriptomes of Humans and Chimpanzees (2005)
    Philipp Khaitovich, Ines Hellmann et al. Science
  21. Organoid single-cell genomic atlas uncovers human-specific features of brain development (2019)
    Sabina Kanton, Michael James Boyle et al. Nature
  22. Analysis of one million base pairs of Neanderthal DNA (2006)
    Richard E. Green, Johannes Krause et al. Nature
  23. DNA damage promotes jumping between templates during enzymatic amplification. (1990)
    Svante Pääbo, David M. Irwin et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry
  24. Human-specific gene ARHGAP11B promotes basal progenitor amplification and neocortex expansion (2015)
    Marta Florio, Mareike Albert et al. Science
  25. DNA extraction from Pleistocene bones by a silica-based purification method (1993)
    Matthias Höss, Svante Pääbo Nucleic Acids Research
  26. An early modern human from Romania with a recent Neanderthal ancestor (2015)
    Qiaomei Fu, Mateja Hajdinjak et al. Nature
  27. Extensive mitochondrial diversity within a single Amerindian tribe. (1991)
    Ryk Ward, B L Frazier et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  28. Multiplexed DNA Sequence Capture of Mitochondrial Genomes Using PCR Products (2010)
    Tomislav Maričić, Mark Whitten et al. PLoS ONE
  29. Molecular Coproscopy: Dung and Diet of the Extinct Ground Sloth Nothrotheriops shastensis (1998)
    Hendrik N. Poinar, Michael Hofreiter et al. Science
  30. Generation times in wild chimpanzees and gorillas suggest earlier divergence times in great ape and human evolution (2012)
    Kevin E. Langergraber, Kay Prüfer et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  31. Sympatric speciation suggested by monophyly of crater lake cichlids (1994)
    Ulrich K. Schliewen, Diethard Tautz et al. Nature
  32. Molecular cloning of Ancient Egyptian mummy DNA (1985)
    Svante Pääbo Nature
  33. Sequencing and Analysis of Neanderthal Genomic DNA (2006)
    James P. Noonan, Graham Coop et al. Science
  34. Targeted Retrieval and Analysis of Five Neandertal mtDNA Genomes (2009)
    Adrian W. Briggs, Jeffrey M. Good et al. Science
  35. A Revised Timescale for Human Evolution Based on Ancient Mitochondrial Genomes (2013)
    Qiaomei Fu, Alissa Mittnik et al. Current Biology
  36. Denisova Admixture and the First Modern Human Dispersals into Southeast Asia and Oceania (2011)
    David Reich, Nick Patterson et al. The American Journal of Human Genetics
  37. Mitochondrial DNA sequences from a 7000-year old brain (1988)
    Svante Pääbo, John Gifford et al. Nucleic Acids Research
  38. Nuclear DNA sequences from the Middle Pleistocene Sima de los Huesos hominins (2016)
    Matthias Meyer, Juan Luís Arsuaga et al. Nature
  39. Temporal Patterns of Nucleotide Misincorporations and DNA Fragmentation in Ancient DNA (2012)
    Susanna Sawyer, Johannes Krause et al. PLoS ONE
  40. The major genetic risk factor for severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neanderthals (2020)
    Hugo Zeberg, Svante Pääbo Nature
  41. The Derived FOXP2 Variant of Modern Humans Was Shared with Neandertals (2007)
    Johannes Krause, Carles Lalueza‐Fox et al. Current Biology
  42. A mitochondrial genome sequence of a hominin from Sima de los Huesos (2013)
    Matthias Meyer, Qiaomei Fu et al. Nature
  43. DNA analysis of an early modern human from Tianyuan Cave, China (2013)
    Qiaomei Fu, Matthias Meyer et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  44. Ancient DNA and the polymerase chain reaction (1989)
    Svante Pääbo, Russell Higuchi et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry
  45. Amino Acid Racemization and the Preservation of Ancient DNA (1996)
    Hendrik N. Poinar, Matthias Höss et al. Science
  46. Removal of deaminated cytosines and detection of in vivo methylation in ancient DNA (2009)
    Adrian W. Briggs, Udo Stenzel et al. Nucleic Acids Research
  47. The Date of Interbreeding between Neandertals and Modern Humans (2012)
    Sriram Sankararaman, Hon‐Cheong So et al. PLoS Genetics
  48. The retrieval of ancient human DNA sequences. (1996)
    Oliva Handt, Matthias Krings et al. PubMed
  49. Excavating Neandertal and Denisovan DNA from the genomes of Melanesian individuals (2016)
    Benjamin Vernot, Serena Tucci et al. Science
  50. Separating endogenous ancient DNA from modern day contamination in a Siberian Neandertal (2014)
    Pontus Skoglund, Bernd H. Northoff et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  51. Transcriptomes of germinal zones of human and mouse fetal neocortex suggest a role of extracellular matrix in progenitor self-renewal (2012)
    Simone A. Fietz, Robert Lachmann et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  52. No Evidence of Neandertal mtDNA Contribution to Early Modern Humans (2004)
    David Serre, André Langaney et al. PLoS Biology
  53. The genome of the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father (2018)
    Viviane Slon, Fabrizio Mafessoni et al. Nature
  54. Ancient DNA: Methodological challenges (1994)
    Oliva Handt, Matthias Höss et al. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
  55. Neanderthals in central Asia and Siberia (2007)
    Johannes Krause, Ludovic Orlando et al. Nature
  56. Palaeoproteomic evidence identifies archaic hominins associated with the Châtelperronian at the Grotte du Renne (2016)
    Frido Welker, Mateja Hajdinjak et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  57. A Complete mtDNA Genome of an Early Modern Human from Kostenki, Russia (2010)
    Johannes Krause, Adrian W. Briggs et al. Current Biology
  58. The makers of the Protoaurignacian and implications for Neandertal extinction (2015)
    Stefano Benazzi, Viviane Slon et al. Science
  59. A high-coverage Neandertal genome from Chagyrskaya Cave (2020)
    Fabrizio Mafessoni, Steffi Grote et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  60. 40,000-Year-Old Individual from Asia Provides Insight into Early Population Structure in Eurasia (2017)
    Melinda A. Yang, Xing Gao et al. Current Biology
  61. Nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences from two Denisovan individuals (2015)
    Susanna Sawyer, Gabriel Renaud et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  62. A genomic region associated with protection against severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neandertals (2021)
    Hugo Zeberg, Svante Pääbo Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  63. Limits of long-term selection against Neandertal introgression (2019)
    Martin Petr, Svante Pääbo et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  64. Identification of a new hominin bone from Denisova Cave, Siberia using collagen fingerprinting and mitochondrial DNA analysis (2016)
    Samantha Brown, Thomas Higham et al. Scientific Reports
  65. Pleistocene North African genomes link Near Eastern and sub-Saharan African human populations (2018)
    Marieke S. van de Loosdrecht, Abdeljalil Bouzouggar et al. Science
  66. Direct dating of Neanderthal remains from the site of Vindija Cave and implications for the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition (2017)
    Thibaut Devièse, Ivor Karavanić et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  67. Human TKTL1 implies greater neurogenesis in frontal neocortex of modern humans than Neanderthals (2022)
    Anneline Pinson, Lei Xing et al. Science
  68. Pleistocene sediment DNA reveals hominin and faunal turnovers at Denisova Cave (2021)
    Elena I. Zavala, Zenobia Jacobs et al. Nature
  69. The genetic changes that shaped Neandertals, Denisovans, and modern humans (2024)
    Hugo Zeberg, Mattias Jakobsson et al. Cell

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