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List of works by Birgit Nickel

40,000-Year-Old Individual from Asia Provides Insight into Early Population Structure in Eurasia.

scientific article published on 11 October 2017

A humanized version of Foxp2 affects cortico-basal ganglia circuits in mice

scientific article (publication date: 29 May 2009)

A mitochondrial genome sequence of a hominin from Sima de los Huesos

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An early modern human from Romania with a recent Neanderthal ancestor

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Ancient DNA indicates human population shifts and admixture in northern and southern China

scientific article published on 14 May 2020

Annotation of primate miRNAs by high throughput sequencing of small RNA libraries

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Complete mitochondrial genome sequence of a Middle Pleistocene cave bear reconstructed from ultrashort DNA fragments

scientific article (publication date: 24 September 2013)

Compound-specific radiocarbon dating and mitochondrial DNA analysis of the Pleistocene hominin from Salkhit Mongolia

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Deep sequencing of small RNAs confirms an annelid affinity of Myzostomida

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Demographic history and genetic differentiation in apes

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Denisovan ancestry and population history of early East Asians

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

Exploiting gene families for phylogenomic analysis of myzostomid transcriptome data

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Expression signatures of early-stage and advanced medaka melanomas

scientific article published on 18 November 2017

Fine-scale recombination patterns differ between chimpanzees and humans

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Gene diversity patterns at 10 X-chromosomal loci in humans and chimpanzees

scientific article (publication date: August 2003)

Genetic Evidence of Human Adaptation to a Cooked Diet

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Historical biogeography of the leopard ( Panthera pardus ) and its extinct Eurasian populations

scientific article published on 12 September 2018

Historical biogeography of the leopard (Panthera pardus) and its extinct Eurasian populations

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Hybridization ddRAD-sequencing for population genomics of non-model plants using highly degraded historical specimen DNA

scientific article published on 19 April 2020

Illuminating the base of the annelid tree using transcriptomics

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Initial Upper Palaeolithic humans in Europe had recent Neanderthal ancestry

scientific article published in 2021

Long-Term Balancing Selection in LAD1 Maintains a Missense Trans-Species Polymorphism in Humans, Chimpanzees, and Bonobos

scientific article published on 19 January 2015

Microstratigraphic preservation of ancient faunal and hominin DNA in Pleistocene cave sediments

scientific article published in 2021

Neandertal and Denisovan DNA from Pleistocene sediments.

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Nuclear DNA from two early Neandertals reveals 80,000 years of genetic continuity in Europe.

scientific article published on 26 June 2019

Nuclear DNA sequences from the Middle Pleistocene Sima de los Huesos hominins

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Opsins in onychophora (velvet worms) suggest a single origin and subsequent diversification of visual pigments in arthropods

scientific article published on 7 June 2012

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

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Patterns of coding variation in the complete exomes of three Neandertals.

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Pleistocene North African genomes link Near Eastern and sub-Saharan African human populations

scientific article published in Science

RNA-seq analysis identifies different transcriptomic types and developmental trajectories of primary melanomas

scientific article published on 11 July 2018

Reconstructing the genetic history of late Neanderthals

scientific article published in Nature

Selection on Human Genes as Revealed by Comparisons to Chimpanzee cDNA

scientific article (publication date: May 2003)

The genetic history of Ice Age Europe

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Transcription factors are targeted by differentially expressed miRNAs in primates

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Transcriptional neoteny in the human brain

scientific article (publication date: 7 April 2009)