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Thomas P. and Knapp, Michael}, title = {Demographic reconstruction from ancient DNA supports rapid extinction of the great auk}, series = {eLife}, volume = {8}, journal = {eLife}, publisher = {eLife Sciences Publications}, address = {Cambridge}, issn = {2050-084X}, doi = {10.7554/eLife.47509}, pages = {35}, year = {2019}, abstract = {The great auk was once abundant and distributed across the North Atlantic. It is now extinct, having been heavily exploited for its eggs, meat, and feathers. We investigated the impact of human hunting on its demise by integrating genetic data, GPS-based ocean current data, and analyses of population viability. We sequenced complete mitochondrial genomes of 41 individuals from across the species' geographic range and reconstructed population structure and population dynamics throughout the Holocene. Taken together, our data do not provide any evidence that great auks were at risk of extinction prior to the onset of intensive human hunting in the early 16th century. In addition, our population viability analyses reveal that even if the great auk had not been under threat by environmental change, human hunting alone could have been sufficient to cause its extinction. Our results emphasise the vulnerability of even abundant and widespread species to intense and localised exploitation.}, language = {en} } @article{SchubertJonssonChangetal.2014, author = {Schubert, Mikkel and Jonsson, Hakon and Chang, Dan and Sarkissian, Clio Der and Ermini, Luca and Ginolhac, Aurelien and Albrechtsen, Anders and Dupanloup, Isabelle and Foucal, Adrien and Petersen, Bent Larsen and Fumagalli, Matteo and Raghavan, Maanasa and Seguin-Orlando, Andaine and Korneliussen, Thorfinn S. and Velazquez, Amhed M. 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E. and Widga, Christopher and Czechowski, Paul and Sommer, Robert and Hodges, Emily and St{\"u}mpel, Nikolaus and Barnes, Ian and Dal{\´e}n, Love and Derevianko, Anatoly and Germonpr{\´e}, Mietje and Hillebrand-Voiculescu, Alexandra and Constantin, Silviu and Kuznetsova, Tatyana and Mol, Dick and Rathgeber, Thomas and Rosendahl, Wilfried and Tikhonov, Alexey N. and Willerslev, Eske and Hannon, Greg and Lalueza i Fox, Carles and Joger, Ulrich and Poinar, Hendrik N. and Hofreiter, Michael and Shapiro, Beth}, title = {The evolutionary and phylogeographic history of woolly mammoths}, series = {Scientific reports}, volume = {7}, journal = {Scientific reports}, publisher = {Nature Publishing Group}, address = {London}, issn = {2045-2322}, doi = {10.1038/srep44585}, pages = {10}, year = {2017}, abstract = {Near the end of the Pleistocene epoch, populations of the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) were distributed across parts of three continents, from western Europe and northern Asia through Beringia to the Atlantic seaboard of North America. Nonetheless, questions about the connectivity and temporal continuity of mammoth populations and species remain unanswered. We use a combination of targeted enrichment and high-throughput sequencing to assemble and interpret a data set of 143 mammoth mitochondrial genomes, sampled from fossils recovered from across their Holarctic range. Our dataset includes 54 previously unpublished mitochondrial genomes and significantly increases the coverage of the Eurasian range of the species. The resulting global phylogeny confirms that the Late Pleistocene mammoth population comprised three distinct mitochondrial lineages that began to diverge ~1.0-2.0 million years ago (Ma). We also find that mammoth mitochondrial lineages were strongly geographically partitioned throughout the Pleistocene. In combination, our genetic results and the pattern of morphological variation in time and space suggest that male-mediated gene flow, rather than large-scale dispersals, was important in the Pleistocene evolutionary history of mammoths.}, language = {en} } @article{ZollerBethBinosietal.2005, author = {Zoller, Peter and Beth, Thomas and Binosi, D. and Blatt, Rainer and Briegel, Hans J. and Bruss, D. and Calarco, Tommaso and Cirac, Juan Ignacio and Deutsch, David and Eisert, Jens and Ekert, Artur and Fabre, Claude and Gisin, Nicolas and Grangiere, P. and Grassl, Markus and Haroche, Serge and Imamoglu, Atac and Karlson, A. and Kempe, Julia and Kouwenhoven, Leo P. and Kr{\"o}ll, S. and Leuchs, Gerd and Lewenstein, Maciej and Loss, Daniel and L{\"u}tkenhaus, Norbert and Massar, Serge and Mooij, J. 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This document has been elaborated, following a former suggestion by FET, by a committee of QIPC scientists to provide input towards the European Commission for the preparation of the Seventh Framework Program. Besides being a document addressed to policy makers and funding agencies (both at the European and national level), the document contains a detailed scientific assessment of the state-of-the-art, main research goals, challenges, strengths, weaknesses, visions and perspectives of all the most relevant QIPC sub-fields, that we report here}, language = {en} }