@article{DeCahsanWestburyDrewsetal.2019,
  author    = {De Cahsan, Binia and Westbury, Michael V. and Drews, Hauke and Tiedemann, Ralph},
  title     = {The complete mitochondrial genome of a European fire-bellied toad (Bombina bombina) from Germany},
  series = {Mitochondrial DNA Part B},
  volume    = {4},
  journal   = {Mitochondrial DNA Part B},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {Taylor \& Francis Group},
  address   = {London},
  issn      = {2380-2359},
  doi       = {10.1080/23802359.2018.1547143},
  pages     = {498 -- 500},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {The European fire-bellied toad, Bombina bombina, is a small aquatic toad belonging to the family Bombinatoridae. The species is native to the lowlands of Central and Eastern Europe, where population numbers have been in decline in recent past decades. Here, we present the first complete mitochondrial genome of the endangered European fire-bellied toad from Northern Germany recovered using iterative mapping. Phylogenetic analyses including other representatives of the Bombinatoridae placed our German specimen as sister to a Polish B. bombina sequence with high support. This finding is congruent with the postulated Pleistocene history of the species. Our complete mitochondrial genome represents an important resource for further population analysis of the European fire-bellied toad, especially those found within Germany.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{DeCahsanWestburyDrewsetal.2019,
  author    = {De Cahsan, Binia and Westbury, Michael V. and Drews, Hauke and Tiedemann, Ralph},
  title     = {The complete mitochondrial genome of a European fire-bellied toad (Bombina bombina) from Germany},
  series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  journal   = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  number    = {532},
  issn      = {1866-8372},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-42322},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-423222},
  pages     = {3},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {The European fire-bellied toad, Bombina bombina, is a small aquatic toad belonging to the family Bombinatoridae. The species is native to the lowlands of Central and Eastern Europe, where population numbers have been in decline in recent past decades. Here, we present the first complete mitochondrial genome of the endangered European fire-bellied toad from Northern Germany recovered using iterative mapping. Phylogenetic analyses including other representatives of the Bombinatoridae placed our German specimen as sister to a Polish B. bombina sequence with high support. This finding is congruent with the postulated Pleistocene history of the species. Our complete mitochondrial genome represents an important resource for further population analysis of the European fire-bellied toad, especially those found within Germany.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{ShengBaslerJietal.2019,
  author    = {Sheng, Gui-Lian and Basler, Nikolas and Ji, Xue-Ping and Paijmans, Johanna L. A. and Alberti, Federica and Preick, Michaela and Hartmann, Stefanie and Westbury, Michael V. and Yuan, Jun-Xia and Jablonski, Nina G. and Xenikoudakis, Georgios and Hou, Xin-Dong and Xiao, Bo and Liu, Jian-Hui and Hofreiter, Michael and Lai, Xu-Long and Barlow, Axel},
  title     = {Paleogenome reveals genetic contribution of extinct giant panda to extant populations},
  series = {Current biology},
  volume    = {29},
  journal   = {Current biology},
  number    = {10},
  publisher = {Cell Press},
  address   = {Cambridge},
  issn      = {0960-9822},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.cub.2019.04.021},
  pages     = {1695 -- 1700},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {Historically, the giant panda was widely distributed from northern China to southwestern Asia [1]. As a result of range contraction and fragmentation, extant individuals are currently restricted to fragmented mountain ranges on the eastern margin of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, where they are distributed among three major population clusters [2]. However, little is known about the genetic consequences of this dramatic range contraction. For example, were regions where giant pandas previously existed occupied by ancestors of present-day populations, or were these regions occupied by genetically distinct populations that are now extinct? If so, is there any contribution of these extinct populations to the genomes of giant pandas living today? To investigate these questions, we sequenced the nuclear genome of an similar to 5,000-year-old giant panda from Jiangdongshan, Teng-chong County in Yunnan Province, China. We find that this individual represents a genetically distinct population that diverged prior to the diversification of modern giant panda populations. We find evidence of differential admixture with this ancient population among modern individuals originating from different populations as well as within the same population. We also find evidence for directional gene flow, which transferred alleles from the ancient population into the modern giant panda lineages. A variable proportion of the genomes of extant individuals is therefore likely derived from the ancient population represented by our sequenced individual. Although extant giant panda populations retain reasonable genetic diversity, our results suggest that this represents only part of the genetic diversity this species harbored prior to its recent range contractions.},
  language  = {en}
}