Michael Stefan Hofreiter

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• 2021

  Estimating the dwarfing rate of an extinct Sicilian elephant

  Baleka, S., Herridge, V. L., Catalano, G., Lister, A. M., Dickinson, M. R., Di Patti, C., Barlow, A., Penkman, K. E. H., Hofreiter, M. & Paijmans, J. L. A., 23 Aug 2021, In: Current Biology. 31, 16, p. 3606-3612.e7 14 p.

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• 2017

  Inactivation of thermogenic UCP1 as a historical contingency in multiple placental mammal clades

  Gaudry, M. J., Jastroch, M., Treberg, J. R., Hofreiter, M., Paijmans, J. L. A., Starrett, J., Wales, N., Signore, A. V., Springer, M. S. & Campbell, K. L., 12 Jul 2017, In: Science Advances. 3, 7, 14 p., e1602878.

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• Palaeogenomes of Eurasian straight-tusked elephants challenge the current view of elephant evolution

  Meyer, M., Palkopoulou, E., Baleka, S., Stiller, M., Penkman, K. E. H., Alt, K. W., Ishida, Y., Mania, D., Mallick, S., Meijer, T., Meller, H., Nagel, S., Nickel, B., Ostritz, S., Rohland, N., Schauer, K., Schüler, T., Roca, A. L., Reich, D. & Shapiro, B. & 1 others, Hofreiter, M., 6 Jun 2017, In: eLife. 6, p. 1-14 14 p., e25413.

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• 2016

  Barcoding the largest animals on earth: on-going challenges and molecular solutions in the taxonomic identification of ancient cetaceans

  Speller, C. F., van den Hurk, Y., Charpentier, A., Rodrigues, A., Gardiesen, A., Wilkens, B., McGrath, K., Rowsell, K. E., Spindler, L., Collins, M. J. & Hofreiter, M. S., 1 Aug 2016, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 371, 11 p., 20150332.

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• Combined Hybridization Capture and Shotgun Sequencing for Ancient DNA Analysis of Extinct Wild and Domestic Dromedary Camel

  Mohandesan, E., Speller, C. F., Peters, J., Uerpmann, M., Uerpmann, H.-P., De Cupere, B., Hofreiter, M. S. & Burger, P., 1 Aug 2016, In: Molecular ecology resources. 17, 2, p. 300–313 14 p.

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• Phylogenetic analyses suggest that diversification and body size evolution are independent in insects

  Rainford, J. L., Hofreiter, M. S. & Mayhew, P. J., 8 Jan 2016, In: Bmc evolutionary biology. 16, 17 p., 8.

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• 2015

  Ancient proteins resolve the evolutionary history of Darwin's South American ungulates

  Welker, F., Collins, M. J., Thomas, J. A., Wadsley, M., Brace, S., Cappellini, E., Turvey, S. T., Reguero, M., Gelfo, J. N., Kramarz, A., Burger, J., Thomas-Oates, J., Ashford, D. A., Ashton, P. D., Rowsell, K., Porter, D. M., Kessler, B., Fischer, R., Baessmann, C. & Kaspar, S. & 11 others, Olsen, J. V., Kiley, P., Elliott, J. A., Kelstrup, C. D., Mullin, V., Hofreiter, M., Willerslev, E., Hublin, J. J., Orlando, L., Barnes, I. & Macphee, R. D. E., 4 Jun 2015, In: Nature. 522, 7554, p. 81-84 4 p.

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• Paging through history: parchment as a reservoir of ancient DNA for next generation sequencing

  Teasdale, M. D., van Doorn, N., Fiddyment, S., Webb, C., O'Connor, T., Hofreiter, M., Collins, M. & Bradley, D., 19 Jan 2015, In: Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal Society Of London Series B - Biological Sciences. 370, 1660, 7 p., 20130379.

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• The Future of Ancient DNA: Technical Advances and Conceptual Shifts

  Hofreiter, M. S., Paijmans, J. L. A., Goodchild, H., Speller, C. F., Barlow, A., Gonzalez Fortes, G. M., Thomas, J. A., Ludwig, A. & Collins, M. J., Mar 2015, In: Bioessays. 37, 3, p. 284-293 10 p.

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• 2013

  A genetically distinct lion (Panthera leo) population from Ethiopia

  Bruche, S., Lippold, S., Hofreiter, M., Gusset, M., Eulenberger, K., Junhold, J., Driscoll, C. A. & Barnett, R., 1 Jan 2013, In: European Journal of Wildlife Research. 59, 2, p. 215-225

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• A Mitogenomic Phylogeny of Living Primates

  Finstermeier, K., Meyer, M., Kreuz, E., Hofreiter, M., Zinner, D., Brameier, M. & Roos, C., 16 Jul 2013, In: PLoS ONE. 8, 7, e69504.

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• Capturing protein-coding genes across highly divergent species

  Li, C., Hofreiter, M., Straube, N., Corrigan, S. & Naylor, G. J. P., 1 Jun 2013, In: Biotechniques. 54, 6, p. 321-326

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• Effects of late quaternary climate change on Palearctic shrews

  Prost, S., Stiller, M., Hofreiter, M., Klietmann, J., Nagel, D., Rabeder, G., Van Kolfschoten, T., Guralnick, R. P., Waltari, E., Vrieling, K. & Sommer, R. S., 1 Jun 2013, In: Global Change Biology. 19, 6, p. 1865-1874

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• Genetic basis and evolutionary causes of colour variation in vertebrates

  Hofreiter, M., 1 Jun 2013, In: Seminars in cell & developmental biology. 24, 6-7, p. 515

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• Losing ground: Past history and future fate of Arctic small mammals in a changing climate

  Prost, S., Guralnick, R. P., Waltari, E., Fedorov, V. B., Kuzmina, E., Smirnov, N., van Kolfschoten, T., Hofreiter, M. & Vrieling, K., 1 Jun 2013, In: Global Change Biology. 19, 6, p. 1854-1864

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• Mitochondrial Diversity and Distribution of African Green Monkeys (Chlorocebus Gray, 1870)

  Haus, T., Zinner, D., Roos, C., Akom, E., Agwanda, B. & Hofreiter, M., 1 Apr 2013, In: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY. 75, 4, p. 350-360

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• Palaeolithic dogs and the early domestication of the wolf: A reply to the comments of Crockford and Kuzmin (2012)

  Germonpré, M., Sablin, M. V., Després, V., Hofreiter, M., Lázničková-Galetová, M., Stevens, R. E. & Stiller, M., 1 Jan 2013, In: Journal of archaeological science. 40, 1, p. 786-792

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• Phenotypes from ancient DNA: approaches, insights and prospects

  Fortes, G. G., Speller, C. F., Hofreiter, M. & King, T. E., 1 Aug 2013, In: Bioessays. 35, 8, p. 690-695

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• The last of its kind? Radiocarbon, ancient DNA and stable isotope evidence from a late cave bear (Ursus spelaeus ROSENMÜLLER, 1794) from Rochedane (France)

  Bocherens, H., Drucker, D. G., Bridault, A., Hofreiter, M., Münzel, S. C., Stiller, M. & van der Plicht, J., 1 Jan 2013, In: Quaternary International. 339-340, p. 179-188

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• 2012

  Ancient DNA extracted from Danish aurochs (Bos primigenius): genetic diversity and preservation

  Gravlund, P., Aaris-Sørensen, K., Noe-Nygaard, N., Bollback, J. P., Hofreiter, M. & Meyer, M., 20 Jan 2012, In: Annals of anatomy-Anatomischer anzeiger. 194, 1, p. 103-111

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• Ancient DNA from marine mammals: Studying long-lived species over ecological and evolutionary timescales

  Foote, A. D., Hofreiter, M. & Morin, P. A., 20 Jan 2012, In: Annals of anatomy-Anatomischer anzeiger. 194, 1, p. 112-120 9 p.

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• Case study: using a nondestructive DNA extraction method to generate mtDNA sequences from historical chimpanzee specimens

  Mohandesan, E., Prost, S. & Hofreiter, M., 2012, In: Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.). 840, p. 101-10 10 p.

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• Clovis Age Western Stemmed Projectile Points and Human Coprolites at the Paisley Caves

  Jenkins, D. L., Davis, L. G., Stafford, T. W., Campos, P. F., Hockett, B., Jones, G. T., Cummings, L. S., Yost, C., Connolly, T. J., Yohe, R. M., Gibbons, S. C., Raghavan, M., Rasmussen, M., Paijmans, J. L. A., Hofreiter, M., Kemp, B. M., Barta, J. L., Monroe, C., Gilbert, M. T. P. & Willerslev, E., 13 Jul 2012, In: Science. 337, 6091, p. 223-228 7 p.

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• Genetic analysis of cave bear specimens from Niedźwiedzia cave, sudetes, Poland

  Baca, M., Stankovic, A., Stefaniak, K., Marciszak, A., Hofreiter, M., Nadachowski, A., Wegleński, P. & Mackiewicz, P., 1 Jan 2012, In: Palaeontologia Electronica. 15, 2, 15.2.21A.

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• Mitogenomic analyses from ancient DNA

  Paijmans, J. L. A., Gilbert, M. T. P. & Hofreiter, M., 2012, In: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.

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• New Life for Ancient DNA

  Campbell, K. L. & Hofreiter, M., Aug 2012, In: Scientific american. 307, 2, p. 46-51 6 p.

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• Nondestructive DNA extraction from museum specimens

  Hofreiter, M., 2012, In: Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.). 840, p. 93-100 8 p.

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• The genetic history of Europeans

  Pinhasi, R., Thomas, M. G., Hofreiter, M., Currat, M. & Burger, J., Oct 2012, In: Trends in Genetics. 28, 10, p. 496-505 10 p.

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• 2011

  A Biochemical-Biophysical Study of Hemoglobins from Woolly Mammoth, Asian Elephant, and Humans

  Yuan, Y., Shen, T.-J., Gupta, P., Ho, N. T., Simplaceanu, V., Tam, T. C. S., Hofreiter, M., Cooper, A., Campbell, K. L. & Ho, C., 30 Aug 2011, In: Biochemistry. 50, 34, p. 7350-7360 11 p.

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• Colours of domestication

  Cieslak, M., Reissmann, M., Hofreiter, M. & Ludwig, A., Nov 2011, In: Biological reviews. 86, 4, p. 885-899 15 p.

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• Discovery of lost diversity of paternal horse lineages using ancient DNA

  Lippold, S., Knapp, M., Kuznetsova, T., Leonard, J. A., Benecke, N., Ludwig, A., Rasmussen, M., Cooper, A., Weinstock, J., Willerslev, E., Shapiro, B. & Hofreiter, M., Aug 2011, In: Nature Communications. 2, 6 p., 450.

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• Genotypes of predomestic horses match phenotypes painted in Paleolithic works of cave art

  Pruvost, M., Bellone, R., Benecke, N., Sandoval-Castellanos, E., Cieslak, M., Kuznetsova, T., Morales-Muniz, A., O'Connor, T., Reissmann, M., Hofreiter, M. & Ludwig, A., 15 Nov 2011, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 108, 46, p. 18626-18630 5 p.

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• Mitochondrial Genomes Reveal Slow Rates of Molecular Evolution and the Timing of Speciation in Beavers (Castor), One of the Largest Rodent Species

  Horn, S., Durka, W., Wolf, R., Ermala, A., Stubbe, A., Stubbe, M. & Hofreiter, M., 28 Jan 2011, In: PLoS ONE. 6, 1, p. - 9 p., e14622.

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• Molecular breeding of polymerases for resistance to environmental inhibitors

  Baar, C., d'Abbadie, M., Vaisman, A., Arana, M. E., Hofreiter, M., Woodgate, R., Kunkel, T. A. & Holliger, P., Apr 2011, In: Nucleic Acids Research. 39, 8, p. - 12 p., e51.

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• Multilocus Resolution of Phylogeny and Timescale in the Extant Adaptive Radiation of Hawaiian Honeycreepers

  Lerner, H. R. L., Meyer, M., James, H. F., Hofreiter, M. & Fleischer, R. C., 8 Nov 2011, In: Current Biology. 21, 21, p. 1838-1844 7 p.

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• Niche partitioning between two sympatric genetically distinct cave bears (Ursus spelaeus and Ursus ingressus) and brown bear (Ursus arctos) from Austria: Isotopic evidence from fossil bones

  Bocherens, H., Stiller, M., Hobson, K. A., Pacher, M., Rabeder, G., Burns, J. A., Tuetken, T. & Hofreiter, M., 6 Dec 2011, In: Quaternary International. 245, 2, p. 238-248 11 p.

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• Pleistocene bears in the Swabian Jura (Germany): Genetic replacement, ecological displacement, extinctions and survival

  Muenzel, S. C., Stiller, M., Hofreiter, M., Mittnik, A., Conard, N. J. & Bocherens, H., 6 Dec 2011, In: Quaternary International. 245, 2, p. 225-237 13 p.

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• Species-specific responses of Late Quaternary megafauna to climate and humans

  Lorenzen, E. D., Nogues-Bravo, D., Orlando, L., Weinstock, J., Binladen, J., Marske, K. A., Ugan, A., Borregaard, M. K., Gilbert, M. T. P., Nielsen, R., Ho, S. Y. W., Goebel, T., Graf, K. E., Byers, D., Stenderup, J. T., Rasmussen, M., Campos, P. F., Leonard, J. A., Koepfli, K.-P. & Froese, D. & 35 others, Zazula, G., Stafford, T. W., Aaris-Sorensen, K., Batra, P., Haywood, A. M., Singarayer, J. S., Valdes, P. J., Boeskorov, G., Burns, J. A., Davydov, S. P., Haile, J., Jenkins, D. L., Kosintsev, P., Kuznetsova, T., Lai, X., Martin, L. D., McDonald, H. G., Mol, D., Meldgaard, M., Munch, K., Stephan, E., Sablin, M., Sommer, R. S., Sipko, T., Scott, E., Suchard, M. A., Tikhonov, A., Willerslev, R., Wayne, R. K., Cooper, A., Hofreiter, M., Sher, A., Shapiro, B., Rahbek, C. & Willerslev, E., 17 Nov 2011, In: Nature. 479, 7373, p. 359-U195 7 p.

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• True single-molecule DNA sequencing of a pleistocene horse bone

  Orlando, L., Ginolhac, A., Raghavan, M., Vilstrup, J., Rasmussen, M., Magnussen, K., Steinmann, K. E., Kapranov, P., Thompson, J. F., Zazula, G., Froese, D., Moltke, I., Shapiro, B., Hofreiter, M., Al-Rasheid, K. A. S., Gilbert, M. T. P. & Willerslev, E., Oct 2011, In: Genome Research. 21, 10, p. 1705-1719 15 p.

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• Whole mitochondrial genome sequencing of domestic horses reveals incorporation of extensive wild horse diversity during domestication

  Lippold, S., Matzke, N. J., Reissmann, M. & Hofreiter, M., 14 Nov 2011, In: Bmc evolutionary biology. 11, 1, p. - 10 p., 328.

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• 2010

  Analysis of ancient human genomes

  Shapiro, B. & Hofreiter, M., May 2010, In: Bioessays. 32, 5, p. 388-391 4 p.

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• Ancient DNA sequences point to a large loss of mitochondrial genetic diversity in the saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica) since the Pleistocene

  Campos, P. F., Kristensen, T., Orlando, L., Sher, A., Kholodova, M. V., Gotherstrom, A., Hofreiter, M., Drucker, D. G., Kosintsev, P., Tikhonov, A., Baryshnikov, G. F., Willerslev, E. & Gilbert, M. T. P., Nov 2010, In: Molecular Ecology. 19, 22, p. 4863-4875 13 p.

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• A phantom extinction? New insights into extinction dynamics of the Don-hare Lepus tanaiticus

  Prost, S., Knapp, M., Flemmig, J., Hufthammer, A. K., Kosintsev, P., Stiller, M. & Hofreiter, M., Sept 2010, In: Journal of evolutionary biology. 23, 9, p. 2022-2029 8 p.

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• A phylogenetic estimate for golden moles (Mammalia, Afrotheria, Chrysochloridae)

  Asher, R. J., Maree, S., Bronner, G., Bennett, N. C., Bloomer, P., Czechowski, P., Meyer, M. & Hofreiter, M., 9 Mar 2010, In: Bmc evolutionary biology. 10, 1, 13 p., 69.

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• A rapid column-based ancient DNA extraction method for increased sample throughput

  Rohland, N., Siedel, H. & Hofreiter, M., Jul 2010, In: Molecular ecology resources. 10, 4, p. 677-683 7 p.

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• Computational challenges in the analysis of ancient DNA

  Pruefer, K., Stenzel, U., Hofreiter, M., Paeaebo, S., Kelso, J. & Green, R. E., 6 May 2010, In: Genome biology. 11, 5, p. - 15 p., R47.

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• Genomic DNA Sequences from Mastodon and Woolly Mammoth Reveal Deep Speciation of Forest and Savanna Elephants

  Rohland, N., Reich, D., Mallick, S., Meyer, M., Green, R. E., Georgiadis, N. J., Roca, A. L. & Hofreiter, M., Dec 2010, In: PLoS Computational Biology. 8, 12, p. 1-10 10 p., e1000564.

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• Influence of Climate Warming on Arctic Mammals? New Insights from Ancient DNA Studies of the Collared Lemming Dicrostonyx torquatus

  Prost, S., Smirnov, N., Fedorov, V. B., Sommer, R. S., Stiller, M., Nagel, D., Knapp, M. & Hofreiter, M., 27 May 2010, In: PLoS ONE. 5, 5, 11 p., e10447.

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• Molecular identification of the extinct mountain goat, Oreamnos harringtoni (Bovidae)

  Campos, P. F., Willerslev, E., Mead, J. I., Hofreiter, M. & Gilbert, M. T. P., Jan 2010, In: Boreas. 39, 1, p. 18-23 6 p.

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• Origin and History of Mitochondrial DNA Lineages in Domestic Horses

  Cieslak, M., Pruvost, M., Benecke, N., Hofreiter, M., Morales, A., Reissmann, M. & Ludwig, A., 20 Dec 2010, In: PLoS ONE. 5, 12, p. - 13 p., e15311.

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