List of works by Morten Allentoft

100 ancient genomes show repeated population turnovers in Neolithic Denmark

scientific article published on 10 January 2024

137 ancient human genomes from across the Eurasian steppes

scientific article published in Nature

A 2-million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland uncovered by environmental DNA

scientific article published on 7 December 2022

A 5700 year-old human genome and oral microbiome from chewed birch pitch

scientific article published on 17 December 2019

A can of worms: Identification issues and morphological conservatism in a large sample of African Green and Bush Snakes (Colubridae: Philothamnus) from Minziro Forest, Tanzania

scholarly article published in 2021

A matter of months: High precision migration chronology of a Bronze Age female

scientific article

An Ancient DNA Study of Four Sympatric Species of Moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes) from Holocene Deposits in North Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand

2010 doctoral thesis by Morten Erik Allentoft at University of Canterbury

An assessment of ancient DNA preservation in Holocene-Pleistocene fossil bone excavated from the world heritage Naracoorte Caves, South Australia

scientific article published in 2016

An extremely low-density human population exterminated New Zealand moa.

scientific article

Ancient Biomolecules and Evolutionary Inference

scientific article published in 2018

Ancient DNA analyses of early archaeological sites in New Zealand reveal extreme exploitation of moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes) at all life stages

article

Ancient DNA microsatellite analyses of the extinct New Zealand giant moa (Dinornis robustus) identify relatives within a single fossil site

scientific article

Ancient DNA preserved in small bone fragments from the P.W. Lund collection

scientific article published on 05 February 2021

Ancient DNA reveals multiple origins and migration waves of extinct Japanese brown bear lineages

scientific article published in 2021

Ancient DNA shows high faunal diversity in the Lesser Caucasus during the Late Pleistocene

scientific article published in September 2019

Ancient Jomon genome sequence analysis sheds light on migration patterns of early East Asian populations

scientific article published on 25 August 2020

Ancient genomes show social and reproductive behavior of early Upper Paleolithic foragers

scientific article published on 5 October 2017

Ancient genomics

scientific article

Ancient hepatitis B viruses from the Bronze Age to the Medieval period

scientific article published in Nature

Ancient human parvovirus B19 in Eurasia reveals its long-term association with humans

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Ancient pathogen DNA in human teeth and petrous bones.

scientific article

Applications of environmental DNA (eDNA) in agricultural systems: Current uses, limitations and future prospects

scientific article published in 2022

Author Correction: 137 ancient human genomes from across the Eurasian steppes

scientific article published in Nature

Author Correction: Ancient hepatitis B viruses from the Bronze Age to the Medieval period

scientific article published in Nature

Centuries-Old DNA from an Extinct Population of Aesculapian Snake (Zamenis longissimus) Offers New Phylogeographic Insight

scientific article published on 10 March 2018

Comparing Ancient DNA Preservation in Petrous Bone and Tooth Cementum

scientific article

Complete mitochondrial genomes from museum specimens clarify millipede evolution in the Eastern Arc Mountains

scientific article published in 2022

Derived immune and ancestral pigmentation alleles in a 7,000-year-old Mesolithic European

scientific article

Discussion: Are the Origins of Indo-European Languages Explained by the Migration of the Yamnaya Culture to the West?

article

Diverse variola virus (smallpox) strains were widespread in northern Europe in the Viking Age

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

Early Pleistocene enamel proteome from Dmanisi resolves Stephanorhinus phylogeny

scientific article published on 11 September 2019

Early Pleistocene enamel proteome sequences from Dmanisi resolve Stephanorhinus phylogeny

scholarly article published 10 September 2018

Early divergent strains of Yersinia pestis in Eurasia 5,000 years ago

scientific article

Early human dispersals within the Americas

scientific article published in Science

Eight Millennia of Matrilineal Genetic Continuity in the South Caucasus

scientific article

Enamel proteome shows that Gigantopithecus was an early diverging pongine

scientific article published on 13 November 2019

Erratum: The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe

scientific article published in Nature

Extensive Farming in Estonia Started through a Sex-Biased Migration from the Steppe

scientific article

Extensive farming in Estonia started through a sex-biased migration from the Steppe

article

Extinct New Zealand megafauna were not in decline before human colonization

scientific article (publication date: April 2014)

Fossil avian eggshell preserves ancient DNA

scientific article (publication date: 7 July 2010)

Genetic diversity loss in a biodiversity hotspot: ancient DNA quantifies genetic decline and former connectivity in a critically endangered marsupial

scientific article published on 25 October 2015

Genome-wide ancestry of 17th-century enslaved Africans from the Caribbean

scientific article

Genomic Steppe ancestry in skeletons from the Neolithic Single Grave Culture in Denmark

Genomic ancestry, diet and microbiomes of Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers from San Teodoro cave

Groundwater is a hidden global keystone ecosystem

scientific article published in 2023

High Y-chromosomal Differentiation Among Ethnic Groups of Dir and Swat Districts, Pakistan

scientific article

High-precision dating and ancient DNA profiling of moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes) eggshell documents a complex feature at Wairau Bar and refines the chronology of New Zealand settlement by Polynesians

article

Highly skewed sex ratios and biased fossil deposition of moa: ancient DNA provides new insight on New Zealand's extinct megafauna

article

Human Disease Variation in the Light of Population Genomics

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Identification of microsatellites from an extinct moa species using high-throughput (454) sequence data.

scientific article

Improving access to endogenous DNA in ancient bones and teeth

scientific article

Improving access to endogenous DNA in ancient bones and teeth

Kinship and social organization in Copper Age Europe. A cross-disciplinary analysis of archaeology, DNA, isotopes, and anthropology from two Bell Beaker cemeteries

scientific article published on 16 November 2020

Mapping co-ancestry connections between the genome of a Medieval individual and modern Europeans

scientific article published on 22 April 2020

Mapping human mobility during the third and second millennia BC in present-day Denmark

scientific article published on 21 August 2019

Metabarcoding under Brine: Microbial Ecology of Five Hypersaline Lakes at Rottnest Island (WA, Australia)

scientific article published in 2021

Microsatellite analysis of the natterjack toad (Bufo calamita) in Denmark: populations are islands in a fragmented landscape

scientific article

Moa's Ark or volant ghosts of Gondwana? Insights from nineteen years of ancient DNA research on the extinct moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes) of New Zealand

scientific article

Molecular and morphological analyses of avian eggshell excavated from a late thirteenth century earth oven

scholarly article

Origins and genetic legacies of the Caribbean Taino

scientific article published on 20 February 2018

POPULATION GENETICS. Genomic evidence for the Pleistocene and recent population history of Native Americans

scientific article

Population genomics of Bronze Age Eurasia

scientific article published on June 2015

Population genomics of post-glacial western Eurasia

scientific article published on 10 January 2024

Population genomics of the Viking world

scientific article published on 16 September 2020

Pretreatment: Improving Endogenous Ancient DNA Yields Using a Simple Enzymatic Predigestion Step

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Profiling the dead: generating microsatellite data from fossil bones of extinct megafauna--protocols, problems, and prospects

scientific article (publication date: 31 January 2011)

Pulling out the 1%: whole-genome capture for the targeted enrichment of ancient DNA sequencing libraries

scientific article (publication date: 7 November 2013)

Quantitative real-time PCR in aDNA research

scientific article

Raptor roosts as invasion archives: insights from the first black rat mitochondrial genome sequenced from the Caribbean

scientific article published on 25 October 2021

Re-theorising mobility and the formation of culture and language among the Corded Ware Culture in Europe

article

Repeated plague infections across six generations of Neolithic Farmers

scientific article published on 10 July 2024

Screening archaeological bone for palaeogenetic and palaeoproteomic studies

scientific article published on 25 June 2020

Selection in Europeans on Fatty Acid Desaturases Associated with Dietary Changes

scientific article

Selection on the FADS region in Europeans

Serious chronic disease of the cervical spine and trauma in a young female from the middle ages (Czech Republic)

scientific article published on 27 November 2018

The Beaker Phenomenon And The Genomic Transformation Of Northwest Europe

The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe.

scientific article published on 21 February 2018

The Maglemosian skeleton from Koelbjerg, Denmark revisited: identifying sex and provenance

scholarly article by Jesper Hansen et al published 2 January 2017 in Danish Journal of Archaeology

The ancestry and affiliations of Kennewick Man

scientific article

The first horse herders and the impact of early Bronze Age steppe expansions into Asia

scientific article

The genome of a Late Pleistocene human from a Clovis burial site in western Montana

scientific article

The half-life of DNA in bone: measuring decay kinetics in 158 dated fossils

scientific article (publication date: 7 December 2012)

The origins and spread of domestic horses from the Western Eurasian steppes

The population history of northeastern Siberia since the Pleistocene

The population history of northeastern Siberia since the Pleistocene

scientific article published on 05 June 2019

The prehistoric peopling of Southeast Asia

scientific article

The selection landscape and genetic legacy of ancient Eurasians

scientific article published on 10 January 2024

Tracing the dynamic life story of a Bronze Age Female

scientific article

Tracking Five Millennia of Horse Management with Extensive Ancient Genome Time Series.

scientific article published on 2 May 2019

Two ancient human genomes reveal Polynesian ancestry among the indigenous Botocudos of Brazil

scientific article

Unraveling ancestry, kinship, and violence in a Late Neolithic mass grave

scientific article published on 06 May 2019

Viviparous sea snakes can be used as bioindicators for diverse marine environments

scientific article

eDNA in subterranean ecosystems: Applications, technical aspects, and future prospects

scientific article published on 19 January 2022

‘The Farm Beneath the Sand’ – an archaeological case study on ancient ‘dirt’ DNA

scholarly article by Martin B. Hebsgaard published in June 2009