Dokument-ID Dokumenttyp Verfasser/Autoren Herausgeber Haupttitel Abstract Auflage Verlagsort Verlag Erscheinungsjahr Seitenzahl Schriftenreihe Titel Schriftenreihe Bandzahl ISBN Quelle der Hochschulschrift Konferenzname Quelle:Titel Quelle:Jahrgang Quelle:Heftnummer Quelle:Erste Seite Quelle:Letzte Seite URN DOI Abteilungen OPUS4-43056 Dissertation Baleka, Sina Isabelle Palaeogenetic analyses of extinct Elephantidae from temperate and subtropical climates 2019 xiii, 114 Institut für Biochemie und Biologie OPUS4-46597 Wissenschaftlicher Artikel Meyer, Matthias; Palkopoulou, Eleftheria; Baleka, Sina Isabelle; Stiller, Mathias; Penkman, Kirsty E. H.; Alt, Kurt W.; Ishida, Yasuko; Mania, Dietrich; Mallick, Swapan; Meijer, Tom; Meller, Harald; Nagel, Sarah; Nickel, Birgit; Ostritz, Sven; Rohland, Nadin; Schauer, Karol; Schueler, Tim; Roca, Alfred L.; Reich, David; Shapiro, Beth; Hofreiter, Michael Palaeogenomes of Eurasian straight-tusked elephants challenge the current view of elephant evolution The straight-tusked elephants Palaeoloxodon spp. were widespread across Eurasia during the Pleistocene. Phylogenetic reconstructions using morphological traits have grouped them with Asian elephants (Elephas maximus), and many paleontologists place Palaeoloxodon within Elephas. Here, we report the recovery of full mitochondrial genomes from four and partial nuclear genomes from two P. antiquus fossils. These fossils were collected at two sites in Germany, Neumark-Nord and Weimar-Ehringsdorf, and likely date to interglacial periods similar to 120 and similar to 244 thousand years ago, respectively. Unexpectedly, nuclear and mitochondrial DNA analyses suggest that P. antiquus was a close relative of extant African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis). Species previously referred to Palaeoloxodon are thus most parsimoniously explained as having diverged from the lineage of Loxodonta, indicating that Loxodonta has not been constrained to Africa. Our results demonstrate that the current picture of elephant evolution is in need of substantial revision. Cambridge eLife Sciences Publications 2017 14 eLife 6 10.7554/eLife.25413 Institut für Biochemie und Biologie OPUS4-53320 Wissenschaftlicher Artikel Palkopoulou, Eleftheria; Lipson, Mark; Mallick, Swapan; Nielsen, Svend; Rohland, Nadin; Baleka, Sina Isabelle; Karpinski, Emil; Ivancevici, Atma M.; Thu-Hien To, ; Kortschak, Daniel; Raison, Joy M.; Qu, Zhipeng; Chin, Tat-Jun; Alt, Kurt W.; Claesson, Stefan; Dalen, Love; MacPhee, Ross D. E.; Meller, Harald; Rocar, Alfred L.; Ryder, Oliver A.; Heiman, David; Young, Sarah; Breen, Matthew; Williams, Christina; Aken, Bronwen L.; Ruffier, Magali; Karlsson, Elinor; Johnson, Jeremy; Di Palma, Federica; Alfoldi, Jessica; Adelsoni, David L.; Mailund, Thomas; Munch, Kasper; Lindblad-Toh, Kerstin; Hofreiter, Michael; Poinar, Hendrik; Reich, David A comprehensive genomic history of extinct and living elephants Washington National Acad. of Sciences 2018 9 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115 11 E2566 E2574 10.1073/pnas.1720554115 Institut für Biochemie und Biologie OPUS4-46575 Wissenschaftlicher Artikel Westbury, Michael V.; Baleka, Sina Isabelle; Barlow, Axel; Hartmann, Stefanie; Paijmans, Johanna L. A.; Kramarz, Alejandro; Forasiepi, Analia M.; Bond, Mariano; Gelfo, Javier N.; Reguero, Marcelo A.; Lopez-Mendoza, Patricio; Taglioretti, Matias; Scaglia, Fernando; Rinderknecht, Andres; Jones, Washington; Mena, Francisco; Billet, Guillaume; de Muizon, Christian; Luis Aguilar, Jose; MacPhee, Ross D. E.; Hofreiter, Michael A mitogenomic timetree for Darwin's enigmatic South American mammal Macrauchenia patachonica The unusual mix of morphological traits displayed by extinct South American native ungulates (SANUs) confounded both Charles Darwin, who first discovered them, and Richard Owen, who tried to resolve their relationships. Here we report an almost complete mitochondrial genome for the litoptern Macrauchenia. Our dated phylogenetic tree places Macrauchenia as sister to Perissodactyla, but close to the radiation of major lineages within Laurasiatheria. This position is consistent with a divergence estimate of B66Ma (95% credibility interval, 56.64-77.83 Ma) obtained for the split between Macrauchenia and other Panperissodactyla. Combined with their morphological distinctiveness, this evidence supports the positioning of Litopterna (possibly in company with other SANU groups) as a separate order within Laurasiatheria. We also show that, when using strict criteria, extinct taxa marked by deep divergence times and a lack of close living relatives may still be amenable to palaeogenomic analysis through iterative mapping against more distant relatives. London Nature Publ. Group 2017 8 Nature Communications 8 10.1038/ncomms15951 Institut für Biochemie und Biologie