TY  - GEN
A1  - Gonzalez-Fortes, Gloria M.
A1  - Tassi, Francesca
A1  - Ghirotto, Silvia
A1  - Henneberger, Kirstin
A1  - Hofreiter, Michael
A1  - Barbujani, Guido
T1  - The Neolithic transition at the Western edge of Europe
T2  - American journal of physical anthropology
Y1  - 2017
SN  - 0002-9483
SN  - 1096-8644
VL  - 162
SP  - 198
EP  - 198
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Hoboken
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Barlow, Axel
A1  - Cahill, James A.
A1  - Hartmann, Stefanie
A1  - Theunert, Christoph
A1  - Xenikoudakis, Georgios
A1  - Gonzalez-Fortes, Gloria M.
A1  - Paijmans, Johanna L. A.
A1  - Rabeder, Gernot
A1  - Frischauf, Christine
A1  - Garcia-Vazquez, Ana
A1  - Murtskhvaladze, Marine
A1  - Saarma, Urmas
A1  - Anijalg, Peeter
A1  - Skrbinsek, Tomaz
A1  - Bertorelle, Giorgio
A1  - Gasparian, Boris
A1  - Bar-Oz, Guy
A1  - Pinhasi, Ron
A1  - Slatkin, Montgomery
A1  - Dalen, Love
A1  - Shapiro, Beth
A1  - Hofreiter, Michael
T1  - Partial genomic survival of cave bears in living brown bears
JF  - Nature Ecology & Evolution
N2  - Although many large mammal species went extinct at the end of the Pleistocene epoch, their DNA may persist due to past episodes of interspecies admixture. However, direct empirical evidence of the persistence of ancient alleles remains scarce. Here, we present multifold coverage genomic data from four Late Pleistocene cave bears (Ursus spelaeus complex) and show that cave bears hybridized with brown bears (Ursus arctos) during the Pleistocene. We develop an approach to assess both the directionality and relative timing of gene flow. We find that segments of cave bear DNA still persist in the genomes of living brown bears, with cave bears contributing 0.9 to 2.4% of the genomes of all brown bears investigated. Our results show that even though extinction is typically considered as absolute, following admixture, fragments of the gene pool of extinct species can survive for tens of thousands of years in the genomes of extant recipient species.
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0654-8
SN  - 2397-334X
VL  - 2
IS  - 10
SP  - 1563
EP  - 1570
PB  - Nature Publ. Group
CY  - London
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gonzalez-Fortes, Gloria M.
A1  - Tassi, F.
A1  - Trucchi, E.
A1  - Henneberger, K.
A1  - Paijmans, Johanna L. A.
A1  - Diez-del-Molino, D.
A1  - Schroeder, H.
A1  - Susca, R. R.
A1  - Barroso-Ruiz, C.
A1  - Bermudez, F. J.
A1  - Barroso-Medina, C.
A1  - Bettencourt, A. M. S.
A1  - Sampaio, H. A.
A1  - Salas, A.
A1  - de Lombera-Hermida, A.
A1  - Fabregas Valcarce, Ramón
A1  - Vaquero, M.
A1  - Alonso, S.
A1  - Lozano, Marina
A1  - Rodriguez-Alvarez, Xose Pedro
A1  - Fernandez-Rodriguez, C.
A1  - Manica, Andrea
A1  - Hofreiter, Michael
A1  - Barbujani, Guido
T1  - A western route of prehistoric human migration from Africa into the Iberian Peninsula
JF  - Proceedings of the Royal Society of London : B, Biological sciences
N2  - Being at the western fringe of Europe, Iberia had a peculiar prehistory and a complex pattern of Neolithization. A few studies, all based on modern populations, reported the presence of DNA of likely African origin in this region, generally concluding it was the result of recent gene flow, probably during the Islamic period. Here, we provide evidence of much older gene flow from Africa to Iberia by sequencing whole genomes from four human remains from northern Portugal and southern Spain dated around 4000 years BP (from the Middle Neolithic to the Bronze Age). We found one of them to carry an unequivocal sub-Saharan mitogenome of most probably West or West-Central African origin, to our knowledge never reported before in prehistoric remains outside Africa. Our analyses of ancient nuclear genomes show small but significant levels of sub-Saharan African affinity in several ancient Iberian samples, which indicates that what we detected was not an occasional individual phenomenon, but an admixture event recognizable at the population level. We interpret this result as evidence of an early migration process from Africa into the Iberian Peninsula through a western route, possibly across the Strait of Gibraltar.
KW  - palaeogenome
KW  - Africa
KW  - Iberia
KW  - mitochondrial DNA
KW  - gene flow
KW  - admixture
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.2288
SN  - 0962-8452
SN  - 1471-2954
VL  - 286
IS  - 1895
PB  - Royal Society
CY  - London
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - King, Turi E.
A1  - Gonzalez-Fortes, Gloria M.
A1  - Balaresque, Patricia
A1  - Thomas, Mark G.
A1  - Balding, David
A1  - Delser, Pierpaolo Maisano
A1  - Neumann, Rita
A1  - Parson, Walther
A1  - Knapp, Michael
A1  - Walsh, Susan
A1  - Tonasso, Laure
A1  - Holt, John
A1  - Kayser, Manfred
A1  - Appleby, Jo
A1  - Forster, Peter
A1  - Ekserdjian, David
A1  - Hofreiter, Michael
A1  - Schuerer, Kevin
T1  - Identification of the remains of King Richard III
JF  - Nature Communications
Y1  - 2014
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms6631
SN  - 2041-1723
VL  - 5
PB  - Nature Publ. Group
CY  - London
ER  -