With Jonas Oppenheimer, thanks to @mhssinding.bsky.social, @edanalord.bsky.social, @jcchacond.bsky.social, @gog1693.bsky.social, Georgios Xenikoudakis, Maxim Kozlikin, @katerinad.bsky.social, @palaeopete.bsky.social, @lovedalen.bsky.social and all other co-authors & funding!
This yak X lineage seemingly persisted for at least around 200,000 years, across climatic transitions, in the region.
Briefly, we identified three extinct mitochondrial bovine lineages in mid-latitude Asia: aurochs basal to haplogroup C, bison clade X, and a previously unknown yak-like clade X sister to all known yak diversity.
This yak X mitochondrial lineage diverged around 675,000 years ago from modern yak!
Our manuscript on bovine deep-time paleogenomics at Denisova Cave and in the broader mid-latitude Asia is online! doi.org/10.1093/gbe/... 🦬🦴🧬
Main findings in the 🧵 below ⬇️
@cpgsthlm.bsky.social @genomebiolevol.bsky.social #aDNA
With Jonas Oppenheimer, thanks to @mhssinding.bsky.social, @edanalord.bsky.social, @jcchacond.bsky.social, @gog1693.bsky.social, Georgios Xenikoudakis, Maxim Kozlikin, @katerinad.bsky.social, @palaeopete.bsky.social, @lovedalen.bsky.social and all other co-authors & funding!
This yak X lineage seemingly persisted for at least around 200,000 years, across climatic transitions, in the region.
Briefly, we identified three extinct mitochondrial bovine lineages in mid-latitude Asia: aurochs basal to haplogroup C, bison clade X, and a previously unknown yak-like clade X sister to all known yak diversity.
This yak X mitochondrial lineage diverged around 675,000 years ago from modern yak!
#ESEB2025
museomics:
lastly, please help @alexgilardet.bsky.social help George ask Love to invest in automatic robots to help in the lab 💪
or follow the new methods and validations developed by Alex that he is explaining today in his talk!
(sorry for the rainbow effect)
@cpgsthlm.bsky.social
The FIRST International Conference on Palaeogenomics will happen in Stockholm, Sweden, June 23-26, 2026!
Topics will encompass all corners of ancient DNA research, from humans to wildlife and sediments🧬🦣💀🦠
Save the dates ✅
Check the website icp2026.palaeogenomics.org and follow us for updates!
Had the opportunity to chat about @poojaswali.bsky.social's study on louse-borne relapsing fever on the French radio today 🧬🦠
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
@franceculture.fr @radiofrance.fr @crick.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk
Excited to announce our paper on ancient Borrelia genomes is finally out! 🦠💀We document the evolutionary history of louse-borne relapsing fever, published today in @science.org with @lucyvandorp.bsky.social and @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social #aDNA 🏺🧪🧬
Main findings and paper below: 🧵⬇️
A photo of Alexandre Gilardet presenting his research during the Licentiate defense.
A photo of Chenyu Jin presenting her research during the half-time PhD seminar.
Congrats to our students @alexgilardet.bsky.social and Chenyu Jin for their successful Licentiate defense and half-time PhD seminar! 🎉
Thanks to Edana Lord, @gog1693.bsky.social @palaeopete.bsky.social @lovedalen.bsky.social @katerinad.bsky.social, Mathilde le Moullec, @museumevogen.bsky.social, Georgios Xenikoudakis, Matthew Wooller, Timothy Rowe, Michail Anisimov, @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @cpgsthlm.bsky.social
We also formally demonstrated that the addition of Tween in the elution buffer resulted in more complex libraries.
It represents an alternative to costly robotisation and can generate 96 extracts within a few hours of lab work!
We used a 96-column plate for downscaled aDNA extractions, compared it to routine single columns and retrieved similar screening metrics.
A high-throughput aDNA extraction method for large-scale sample screening 🦣🦬🧬
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
