Publications
These are technical publications (numbers = peer-reviewed journal articles; letters = edited books/book chapters).
For non-technical/popular publications, see Media.
2024 (including pre-prints and manuscripts in press)
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Published
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Hudson, S. M., Allen, S. J., Alsos, I. G., Curl, J., Heintzman, P. D., Hughes, P., Gardiner, L., Lloyd-Smith, L., Pears, B. R., Scaife, R. and Stoof-Leichsenring, K. R. & Brown, A. G.
Early Neolithic forest farming at Seven Springs, Martlesham, Suffolk inferred from sedaDNA and pollen.
In review
46.
Clarke, C. L., Heintzman, P. D., Lammers, Y., Monteath, A. J., Bigelow, N. H., Reuther, J. D., Potter, B. A., Hughes, P. D. M., Alsos, I. G. & Edwards, M. E.
Steppe-tundra composition and deglacial floristic turnover in interior Alaska revealed by sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA).
In press at Quaternary Science Reviews
45.
Johnson, E., Regnéll, C., Heintzman, P. D. & Linderholm, A.
The potential of lacustrine sedimentary ancient DNA for revealing human postglacial recolonisation patterns in northern Sweden.
In press at Boreas
44.
Dehasque, M., Morales, H. E., Díez del Molino, D., Pečnerová, P., Chacón-Duque, J. C., Kanellidou, F., Muller, H., Plotnikov, V., Protopopov, A., Tikhonov, A., Nikolskiy, P., Danilov, G. K., Giannì, M., van der Sluis, L., Higham, T., Heintzman, P. D., Oskolkov, N., Gilbert, M. T. P., Götherström, A., van der Valk, T., Vartanyan, S. & Dalén, L.
In press at Cell
43.
Salonen, J. S., Kuosmanen, N., Alsos, I. G., Heintzman, P. D., Rijal, D. P., Schenk, F., Bogren, F., Luoto, M., Philip, A., Piilo, S., Trasune, L., Väliranta, M. & Helmens, K. F.
Uncovering Holocene climate fluctuations and ancient conifer populations: insights from a high-resolution multi-proxy record from Northern Finland.
Global and Planetary Change (10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104462)
2023
F.
E.
D.
Murchie, T. J., Giguet-Covex, C., Heintzman, P. D., Slon, V. & Wang, Y.
Terrestrial Fauna and Hominin DNA from Sedimentary Archives.
pp. 299–378 (10.1007/978-3-031-43799-1_11)
Revéret, A., Alsos, I. G. & Heintzman, P. D.
Aquatic vegetation DNA from lake sediments.
pp. 235–253 (10.1007/978-3-031-43799-1_8)
Heintzman, P. D., Nota, K., Rouillard, A., Lammers, Y., Murchie, T. J., Armbrecht, L., Garcés Pastor, S. & Vernot, B.
The sedimentary ancient DNA workflow.
pp. 53–84 (10.1007/978-3-031-43799-1_3)
42.
Dalén, L., Heintzman, P. D., Kapp, J. D. & Shapiro, B.
Deep-time paleogenomics and the limits of DNA survival.
Science 382(6666), 48-53 (10.1126/science.adh7943)
Media: Science Podcast
41.
Published
Preprint
Revéret, A., Rijal, D. P., Heintzman, P. D., Brown, A. G., Stoof-Leichsenring, K. R. & Alsos, I. G.
Environmental DNA of aquatic macrophytes: the potential for reconstructing past and present vegetation and environments.
Freshwater Biology 68(11), 1929-1950 (10.1111/fwb.14158)
40.
Williams, J. W., Spanbauer, T. L., Heintzman, P. D., Blois, J., Capo, E., Goring, S. J., Monchamp, M.-E., Parducci, L., Von Eggers, J. M. & Contributing Authors (17 others)
Strengthening global-change science by integrating aeDNA with paleoecoinformatics.
Trends in Ecology and Evolution 38(10), P946–960 (10.1016/j.tree.2023.04.016)
39.
Díez-del-Molino, D., Dehasque, M., Chacón-Duque, C., Patrícia Pečnerová, Tikhonov, A., Protopopov, A., Plotnikov, V., Kanellidou, F., Nikolskiy, P., Mortensen, P., Danilov, G. K., Vartanyan, S., Gilbert, M. T. P., Lister, A. M., Heintzman, P. D., van der Valk, T. & Dalén, L.
Genomics of adaptive evolution in the woolly mammoth.
Current Biology 33(9), 1753–1764 (10.1016/j.cub.2023.03.084)
Credit: Graphical abstract.
Unraveling the candidate genes responsible for the
woolly mammoth's iconic look.
Credit: Beth Zaiken.
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Theissinger, K., Fernandes, C., Formenti, G., Bista, I., Berg, P. R., Bleidorn, C., Bombarely, A., Crottini, A., Gallo, G. R., Godoy, J. A., Jentoft, S., Malukiewicz, J., Mouton, A., Oomen, R. A., Paez, S., Palsbøll, P. J., Pampoulie, C., Ruiz-Lopez, M. J., Secomandi, S., Svardal, H., Theofanopoulou, C., de Vries, J., Waldvogel, A.-M., Zhang, G., Jarvis, E. D., Bálint, M., Ciofi, C., Waterhouse, R. M., Mazzoni, C. J., Höglund, J. & The European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) Consortium*
*108 additional authors, including Heintzman, P. D.
How genomics can help biodiversity conservation.
Trends in Genetics 39(7), P545–559 (10.1016/j.tig.2023.01.005)
37.
Elliot, L. D., Rijal, D. P., Brown, A. G., Bakke. J., Topstad, L., Heintzman, P. D. & Alsos, I. G.
Sedimentary Ancient DNA Reveals Local Vegetation Changes Driven by Glacial Activity and Climate.
Quaternary 6(1), 7 (10.3390/quat6010007)
2022
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Published
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Garcés Pastor, S., Coissac, E., Lavergne, S., Schwörer, C., Theurillat, J.-P., Heintzman, P. D., Wangensteen, O. S., Tinner, W., Rey, F., Heer, M., Rutzer, A., Walsh, K., Lammers, Y., Brown, A. G., Goslar, T., Rijal, D. P., Karger, D. N., Pellissier, L., PhyloAlps Consortium, Heiri, O. & Alsos, I. G.
High resolution ancient sedimentary DNA shows that alpine plant biodiversity is a result of human land use.
Nature Communications 13, 6559 (10.1038/s41467-022-34010-4)
35.
Brown, A., Rijal, D. P., Heintzman, P. D., Clarke, C. L., Blankholm, H.-P., Høeg, H. I., Lammers, Y., Bråthen, K. A., Edwards, M. & Alsos, I. G.
Paleoeconomy more than demography determined prehistoric human impact in Arctic Norway.
PNAS Nexus 1(5), pgac209 (10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac209).
34.
Alsos, I. G., Rijal, D. P., Ehrich, D., Karger, D. N., Yoccoz, N. G., Heintzman, P. D., Brown, A. G., Lammers, Y., Pellissier, L., Alm, T., Bråthen, K. A., Coissac, E., Merkel, M. K. F., Alberti, A., Denoeud, F., Bakke, J. & PhyloNorway consortium.
Post-glacial species arrival and diversity buildup of northern ecosystems took millennia.
Science Advances 8(39), eabo7434 (10.1126/sciadv.abo7434).
Media: forskning.no, ScienceNorway
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van der Valk, T., Dehasque, M., Chacón-Duque, J. C., Oskolkov, N., Vartanyan, S., Heintzman, P. D., Pečnerová, P., Díez-del-Molino, D. & Dalén, L.
Evolutionary consequences of genomic deletions and insertions in the woolly mammoth genome.
iScience 25(8), 104826 (10.1016/j.isci.2022.104826).
Media: ScienceDaily, ScienceTimes
Credit: Graphical abstract.
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Formenti, G., Theissinger, K., Fernandes, C., Bista, I., Bombarely, A., Bleidorn, C., Ciofi, C., Crottini, A., Godoy, J. A., Höglund, J., Malukiewicz, J., Mouton, A., Oomen, R. A., Paez, S., Palsbøll, P. J., Pampoulie, C., Ruiz-López, M. J., Svardal, H., Theofanopoulou, C., de Vries, J., Waldvogel, A.-M., Zhang, G., Mazzoni, C. J., Jarvis, E. D., Bálint, M. & The European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) Consortium*
*133 additional authors, including Heintzman, P. D.
The era of reference genomes in conservation genomics.
Trends in Ecology and Evolution 37(3), P197-202 (10.1016/j.tree.2021.11.008).
2021
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Maschenko, E. N., Potapova, O. R., Heintzman, P. D., Kapp, J. D., Shapiro, B., Protopopov, A. V., Boeskorov, G. G., Pavlov, I. S., Plotnikov, V. V., Kolesov, S. D., Klimovskiy, A. I., Kharlamova, A. S., van der Plicht, J. & Agenbroad, L. D.
Morphology, Individual Age and Sex of the Yuka Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) from Northern Yakutia, Russia.
Paleontologicheskiĭ zhurnal (Paleontological Journal) 55(11), 1230–1259 (10.1134/S003103012111006X).
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Dussex, N., Bergfeldt, N., de Anca Prado, V., Dehasque, M., Díez-del-Molino, D., Ersmark, E., Kanellidou, F., Larsson, P., Lemež, Š., Lord, E., Mármol-Sánchez, E., Meleg, I. N., Måsviken, J., Naidoo, T., Studerus, J., Vicente, M., von Seth, J., Götherström, A., Dalén, L. & Heintzman, P. D.
Integrating multi-taxon palaeogenomes and sedimentary ancient DNA to study past ecosystem dynamics.
Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B 288(1957), 20211252 (10.1098/rspb.2021.1252).
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Liu, S., Westbury, M. V., Dussex, N., Mitchell, K. J., Sinding, M.-H. S., Heintzman, P. D., Duchêne, D. A., Kapp, J. D., von Seth, J., Heiniger, H., Sánchez-Barreiro, F., Margaryan, A., André-Olsen, R., De Cahsan, B., Meng, G., Yang, C., Chen, L., van der Valk, T., Moodley, Y., Rookmaaker, K., Bruford, M. W., Ryder, O., Steiner, C., Bruins-van Sonsbeek, L. G. R., Vartanyan, S., Guo, C., Cooper, A., Kosintsev, P., Kirillova, I., Lister, A. M., Marques-Bonet, T., Gopalakrishnan, S., Dunn, R. R., Lorenzen, E. D., Shapiro, B., Zhang, G., Antoine, P.-O., Dalén, L. & Gilbert, M. T. P.
Ancient and modern genomes unravel the evolutionary history of the rhinoceros family.
Cell 184(19), 4874-4885 (10.1016/j.cell.2021.07.032).
Media: ScienceDaily, Gizmodo
The Siberian unicorn with a pair of Merck's rhinoceros in the background and a woolly rhinoceros in the distance.
Credit: Beth Zaiken.
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Rijal, D. P.*, Heintzman, P. D.*, Lammers, Y., Yoccoz, N. G., Lorberau, K. E., Pitelkova, I., Goslar, T., Ancin Murguzur, F. J., Salonen, J. S., Helmens, K. F., Bakke, J., Edwards, M. E., Alm, T., Bråthen, K. A., Brown, A. G. & Alsos, I. G.*
*equal contribution.
Sedimentary ancient DNA shows terrestrial plant richness continuously increased over the Holocene in northern Fennoscandia.
Science Advances 7(31), eabf9557 (10.1126/sciadv.abf9557).
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Vershinina, A. O., Heintzman, P. D., Froese, D. G., Zazula, G., Cassatt-Johnstone, M., Dalén, L., Der Sarkissian, C., Dunn, S. G., Ermini, L., Gamba, C., Groves, P., Kapp, J. D., Mann, D. H., Seguin-Orlando, A., Southon, J., Stiller, M., Wooller, M. J., Baryshnikov, G., Gimranov, D., Scott, E., Hall, E., Hewitson, S., Kirillova, I., Kosintsev, P., Shidlovsky, F., Tong, H.‐W., Tiunov, M.P., Vartanyan, S., Orlando, L., Corbett‐Detig, R., MacPhee, R. D. & Shapiro, B.
Ancient horse genomes reveal the timing and extent of dispersals across the Bering Land Bridge.
Molecular Ecology 30(23), 6144-6161 (10.1111/mec.15977).
Media: DailyMail, HorseTalk, YukonNews, SciTechDaily, ScienceNorway
Credit: Julius Csotonyi.
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Pedersen, M. W., De Sanctis, B., Saremi, N. F., Sikora, M., Puckett, E. E., Gu, Z., Moon, K. L., Kapp, J. D., Vinner, L., Vardanyan, Z., Ardelean, C. F., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Cahill, J. A., Heintzman, P. D., Zazula, G., MacPhee, R. D. E., Shapiro, B., Durbin, R. & Willerslev, E.
Environmental Genomics of Late Pleistocene Black Bears and Giant Short-Faced Bears.
Current Biology 31(12), 2728-2736 (10.1016/j.cub.2021.04.027).
Credit: Graphical abstract.
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van der Valk, T., Pečnerová, P., Díez-del-Molino, D., Bergström, A., Oppenheimer, J., Hartmann, S., Xenikoudakis, G., Thomas, J. A., Dehasque, M., Sağlıcan, E., Fidan, F. R., Barnes, I., Liu, S., Somel, M., Heintzman, P. D., Nikolskiy, P., Shapiro, B., Skoglund, P., Hofreiter, M., Lister, A. M., Götherström, A. & Dalén, L.
Million-year-old DNA sheds light on the genomic history of mammoths.
Nature 591, 265–269 (10.1038/s41586-021-03224-9).
Million-year-old Steppe mammoths roaming the Siberian tundra.
Credit: Beth Zaiken/Centre for Palaeogenetics.
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Preprint
Lammers, Y., Heintzman, P. D.* & Alsos, I. G.*
*equal contribution.
Environmental palaeogenomic reconstruction of an Ice Age algal population.
Communications Biology 4(220) (10.1038/s42003-021-01710-4).
23.
Capo, E., Giguet-Covex, C.*, Rouillard, A.*, Nota, K.*, Heintzman, P. D.*, Vuillemin, A.*, Ariztegui, D., Arnaud, F., Belle, S., Bertilsson, S., Bigler, C., Bindler, R., Brown, A. G., Clarke, C. L., Crump, S. E., Debroas, D., Englund, G., Ficetola, G. F., Garner, R. E., Gauthier, J., Gregory-Eaves, I., Heinecke, L., Herzschuh, U., Ibrahim, A., Kisand, V., Kjær, K. H., Lammers, Y., Littlefair, J., Messager, E., Monchamp, M., Olajos, F., Orsi, W., Pedersen, M. W., Rijal, D. P., Rydberg, J., Spanbauer, T., Stoof-Leichsenring, K. R., Taberlet, P., Talas, L., Thomas, C., Walsh, D., Wang, Y., Willerslev, E., van Woerkom, A., Zimmermann, H. H., Coolen, M. J. L., Epp, L. S., Domaizon, I., Alsos, I. G., Parducci, L.
*equal contribution.
Lake sedimentary DNA research on past terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity: Overview and recommendations.
Quaternary 4(1), 6 (10.3390/quat4010006).
Featured on the front cover of Quaternary.
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Fellows Yates, J. A., Andrades Valtueña, A., Vågene, Å. J., Cribdon, B., Velsko, I. M., Borry, M., Bravo-López, M. J., Fernandez-Guerra, A., Green, E. J., Ramachandran, S. L., Heintzman, P. D., Spyrou, M. A., Hübner, A., Gancz, A. S., Hider, J., Allshouse, A. F. & Warinner, C.G.
Community-curated and standardised metadata of published ancient metagenomic samples with AncientMetagenomeDir.
Scientific Data 8(31), 1-8 (10.1038/s41597-021-00816-y).
2020
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Funck, J., Heintzman, P. D., Murray, G. G. R., Shapiro, B., McKinney, H., Huchet, J.-B., Bigelow, N., Druckenmiller, P. & Wooller, M. J.
A detailed life history of a Pleistocene steppe bison (Bison priscus) skeleton unearthed in Arctic Alaska.
Quaternary Science Reviews 249, 106578 (10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106578).
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Lord, E., Dussex, N., Kierczak, M., Díez-del-Molino, D., Ryder, O. A., Stanton, D. W. G., Gilbert, M. T. P., Sánchez-Barreiro, F., Zhang, G., Sinding, M.-H. S., Lorenzen, E. D., Willerslev, E., Protopopov, A., Shidlovskiy, F., Fedorov, S., Bocherens, H., Nathan, S. K. S. S., Goossens, B., van, der, Plicht, J., Chan, Y. L., Prost, S., Potapova, O., Kirillova, I., Lister, A. M., Heintzman, P. D., Kapp, J. D., Shapiro, B., Vartanyan, S., Götherström, A. & Dalén, L.
Pre-extinction demographic stability and genomic signatures of adaptation in the Woolly Rhinoceros.
Current Biology 30(19), 3871-3879 (10.1016/j.cub.2020.07.046).
The baby woolly rhino, Sasha, recovered from Siberian permafrost.
Credit: Albert Protopopov.
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Voldstad, L. H., Alsos, I. G., Farnsworth, W. R., Heintzman, P. D., Håkansson, L., Kjellman, S. E., Rouillard, A., Schomacker, A. & Eidesen, P. B.
A complete Holocene lake sediment ancient DNA record reveals long standing high-Arctic plant diversity hotspot in northern Svalbard.
Quaternary Science Reviews 234, 106207 (10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106207).
2019
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Cappellini, E., Welker, F., Pandolfi, L., Ramos Madrigal, J., Fotakis, A., Lyon, D., Moreno Mayar, V. L., Bukhsianidze, M., Jersie-Christensen, R. R., Mackie, M., Ginolhac, A., Ferring, R., Tappen, M., Palkopoulou, E., Samodova, D., Ruther, P. L., Dickinson, M. R., Stafford, T., Chan, Y. L., Götherström, A., Nathan, S. K. S. S., Heintzman, P. D., Kapp, J. D., Kirillova, I., Moodley, Y., Agusti, J., Kahlke, R.-D., Kiladze, G., Martinez-Navarro, B., Liu, S., Sandoval Velasco, M., Sinding, M.-H. S., Kelstrup, C. D.., Allentoft, M. E., Krogh, A., Orlando, L., Penkman, K., Shapiro, B., Rook, L., Dalén, L., Gilbert, M. T. P., Olsen, J. V., Lordkipanidze, D. & Willerslev, E.
Early Pleistocene enamel proteome from Dmanisi resolve Stephanorhinus phylogeny.
Nature 574, 103-107 (10.1038/s41586-019-1555-y).
Artistic reconstruction of Stephanorhinus in its natural environment.
Credit: Mauricio Anton.
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Vershinina, A. O., Kapp, J. D., Soares, A. E. R., Heintzman, P. D., Lowson, C., Cassatt-Johnstone, M., Shidlovskiy, F. K., Kirillova, I. V., Shapiro, B.
Ancient DNA analysis of a Holocene bison from the Rauchua River, northwestern Chukotka, and the existence of a deeply divergent mitochondrial clade.
Zoologicheskiĭ zhurnal (Zoological Journal) 98(10), 1091-1099 (10.1134/S0044513419100143).
C.
Nichols, R. V., Curd, E., Heintzman, P. D. & Shapiro, B.
Targeted Amplification and Sequencing of Ancient Environmental and Sedimentary DNA.
In: Ancient DNA: Methods and Protocols, pp. 149-161 (Humana Press) (10.1007/978-1-4939-9176-1_16)
B.
Shapiro, B., Barlow, A., Heintzman, P. D., Hofreiter, M., Paijmans, J. L. A. & Soares, A. E. R. (editors)
Ancient DNA: Methods and Protocols, 216 pp. (Humana Press) (10.1007/978-1-4939-9176-1)
Part of the Methods in Molecular Biology book series (MIMB, v. 1963)
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Clarke, C. L., Edwards, M. E., Brown, A. G., Gielly, L., Lammers, Y., Heintzman, P. D., Ancin-Murguzur, F. J., Bråthen, K. A., Goslar, T. & Alsos, I. G.
Holocene floristic diversity and richness in northeast Norway revealed by sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) and pollen.
Boreas 48(2), 299-316 (10.1111/bor.12357).
2018
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Nichols, R. V., Vollmers, C., Newsom, L. A., Wang, Y., Heintzman, P. D., Leighton, M., Green, R. E. & Shapiro, B.
Minimizing polymerase biases in metabarcoding.
Molecular Ecology Resources 18(5), 927-939 (10.1111/1755-0998.12895).
Featured on the front cover of MER.
Featured in MER's 'News and Views'
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Cahill, J. A., Heintzman, P. D., Harris, K., Teasdale, M., Kapp, J., Soares, A. E. R., Stirling, I., Bradley, D., Edwards, C. J., Graim, K., Kisleika, A. A., Malev, A. V., Monaghan, N., Green, R. E. & Shapiro, B.
Genomic evidence of widespread admixture from polar bears into brown bears during the last ice age.
Molecular Biology and Evolution 35(5), 1120–1129 (10.1093/molbev/msy018).
2017
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Heintzman, P. D., Zazula, G. D., MacPhee, R. D. E., Scott, E., Cahill, J. A., McHorse, B. K., Kapp, J. D., Stiller, M., Wooller, M. J., Orlando, L., Southon, J., Froese, D. G. & Shapiro, B.
A new genus of horse from Pleistocene North America.
eLife 6, e29944 (10.7554/eLife.29944).
A family of stilt-legged equids (Haringtonhippus francisci) in Yukon, Canada during the last ice age.
Credit: Jorge Blanco.
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Murray, G. G. R., Soares, A. E. R., Novak, B. J., Schaefer, N. K., Cahill, J. A., Baker, A. J., Demboski, J. R., Doll, A., Da Fonseca, R. R., Fulton, T. L., Gilbert, M. T. P., Heintzman, P. D., Letts, B., McIntosh, G., O’Connell, B. L., Peck, M., Pipes, M.-L., Rice, E. S., Santos, K. M., Sohrweide, A. G., Vohr, S. H., Corbett-Detig, R. B., Green, R. E. & Shapiro, B.
Natural selection shaped the rise and fall of passenger pigeon genomic diversity.
Science 358(6365), 951-954 (10.1126/science.aao0960).
Media: Forbes, Atlantic, NPR, DailyMail, Independent, ScienceDaily.
Featured on the front cover of Science.
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Kirillova, I. V., Chernova, O. F., van der Made, J., Kukarskih, V. V., Shapiro, B., van der Plicht, J., Shidlovskiy, F. K., Heintzman, P. D., van Kolfschoten, T. & Zanina, O. G.
Discovery of the skull of Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis (Jäger, 1839) above the Arctic Circle.
Quaternary Research 88(3), 537-550 (10.1017/qua.2017.53).
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Zazula, G. D., Hall, E., Hare, P. G., Thomas, C., Mathewes, R., La Farge, C., Martel, A. L., Heintzman, P. D. & Shapiro, B.
A middle Holocene steppe bison and paleoenvironments from the Versleuce Meadows, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada
Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 54(11), 1138-1152 (10.1139/cjes-2017-0100).
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Wang, Y., Heintzman, P. D., Newsom, L., Bigelow, N. H., Wooller, M. J., Shapiro, B. & Williams, J. W.
The southern coastal Beringian land bridge: cryptic refugium or pseudorefugium for woody plants during the Last Glacial Maximum?
Journal of Biogeography 44, 1559-1571 (10.1111/jbi.13010).
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Froese, D., Stiller, M., Heintzman, P. D., Reyes, A. V., Zazula, G. D., Soares, A. E. R., Meyer, M., Hall, E., Jensen, B. J. L., Arnold, L. J., MacPhee, R. D. E., & Shapiro, B.
Fossil and genomic evidence constrains the timing of bison arrival in North America.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 114(13), 3457-3462. (10.1073/pnas.1620754114).
Media: NYTimes, IBTimes, GenomeWeb, ScienceDaily.
Featured on the front cover of PNAS.
Adapted for a school-aged audience in Environmental Science Journal for Kids.
2016
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Węcek, K., Hartmann, S., Paijmans, J. L., Taron, U., Xenikoudakis, G., Cahill, J. A., Heintzman, P. D., Shapiro, B., Baryshnikov, G., Bunevich, A. N., Crees, J. J., Dobosz, R., Manaserian, N., Okarma, H., Tokarska, M., Turvey, S. T., Wójcik, J. M., Żyła, W., Szymura, J. M., Hofreiter, M. & Barlow, A.
Complex admixture preceded and followed the extinction of wisent in the wild.
Molecular Biology and Evolution 34(3), 598-612 (10.1093/molbev/msw254).
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Graham, R. W., Belmecheri, S., Choy, K., Culleton, B. J., Davies, L. J., Froese, D., Heintzman, P. D., Hritz, C., Kapp, J. D., Newsom, L. A., Rawcliffe, R., Saulnier-Talbot, É., Shapiro, B., Wang, Y., Williams, J. W. & Wooller, M. J.
Timing and causes of mid-Holocene mammoth extinction on St. Paul Island, Alaska.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 113(33), 9310-9314 (10.1073/pnas.1604903113).
Winner of the prestigious Cozzarelli Prize 2016.
5.
Heintzman, P. D., Froese, D., Ives, J. W., Soares, A. E. R., Zazula, G. D., Letts, B., Andrews, T. D., Driver, J. C., Hall, E., Hare, P. G., Jass, C. N., MacKay, G., Southon, J. R., Stiller, M., Woywitka, R., Suchard, M. A., Shapiro, B.
Bison phylogeography constrains dispersal and viability of the Ice Free Corridor in western Canada.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 113(29), 8057-8063 (10.1073/pnas.1601077113).
Media: Guardian, DailyMail, CBC, National Geographic.
Featured on the front cover of PNAS.
2015
4.
Heintzman, P. D., Zazula, G. D., Cahill, J. A., Reyes, A. V., MacPhee, R. D. E. & Shapiro, B.
Genomic data from extinct North American Camelops revise camel evolutionary history.
Molecular Biology and Evolution 32(9), 2433-2440 (10.1093/molbev/msv128).
Media: Guardian, IFLScience, NationalPost, CBC.
Featured on the front cover of MBE.
A.
Heintzman, P. D.*, Soares, A. E. R.*, Chang, D. & Shapiro, B.
Paleogenomics.
Reviews in Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine 1(3), 243-267 (10.1002/3527600906.mcb.201500020).
* Joint authorship.
2014
3.
Ng, T. F. F., Chen, L.-F, Zhou, Y., Shapiro, B., Stiller, M., Heintzman, P. D., Varsani, A., Kondov, N. O., Wong, W., Deng, X., Andrews, T. D., Moorman, B. J., Meulendyk, T., MacKay, G., Gilbertson, R. L. & Delwart, E.
Preservation of viral genomes in 700-y-old caribou feces from a subarctic ice patch.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 111(47), 16842-16847 (10.1073/pnas.1410429111).
Media: IFLScience, NPR, AmazingScience.
Ancient caribou feces, caribou DNA, digested plants, and viruses were frozen within layers of ice for thousands of years.
Credit: Brian Moorman.
2.
Rasmussen, M., Anzick, S. L., Waters, M. R., Skoglund, P., DeGiorgio, M., Stafford Jr., T. W., Rasmussen, S., Moltke, I., Albrechtsen, A., Doyle, S. M., Poznik, G. D., Gudmundsdottir, V., Yadav, R., Malaspinas, A.-S., Allentoft, M. E., Cornejo, O. E., Tambets, K., Eriksson, A., Heintzman, P. D., Karmin, M., Korneliussen, T. S., Meltzer, D. J., Pierre, T. L., Stenderup, J., Saag, L., Warmuth, V. M., Lopes, M. C., Malhi, R. S., Brunak, S., Sicheritz-Ponten, T., Barnes, I., Collins, M., Orlando, L., Balloux, F., Manica, A., Gupta, R., Metspalu, M., Bustamante, C. D., Jakobsson, M., Nielsen, R. & Willerslev, E.
The genome of a Late Pleistocene human from a Clovis burial site in western Montana.
Nature 506, 225-229 (10.1038/nature13025).
Media: Time, BBC, Der Spiegel, ScienceNews, NPR, ScienceDaily.
2013
1.
Heintzman, P. D., Elias, S. A., Moore, K., Paszkiewicz, K. & Barnes, I.
Characterizing DNA preservation in degraded specimens of Amara alpina (Carabidae: Coleoptera).
Molecular Ecology Resources 14(3), 606-615 (10.1111/1755-0998.12205).
Featured on the front cover of MER.
