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List of works by Matthias Meyer

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

scientific article published on 11 October 2017

A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome

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A Method for Single-Stranded Ancient DNA Library Preparation

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

A combined method for DNA analysis and radiocarbon dating from a single sample.

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A complete Neandertal mitochondrial genome sequence determined by high-throughput sequencing

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A direct RT-qPCR approach to test large numbers of individuals for SARS-CoV-2

scientific article published on 31 December 2020

A draft genome of Yersinia pestis from victims of the Black Death

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A fourth Denisovan individual

scientific article published on 07 July 2017

A genetic analysis of the Gibraltar Neanderthals

scientific article published on 15 July 2019

A high-coverage Neandertal genome from Chagyrskaya Cave

scientific article published on 16 June 2020

A high-coverage Neandertal genome from Vindija Cave in Croatia.

scientific article published on 5 October 2017

A high-coverage genome sequence from an archaic Denisovan individual

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A late Neanderthal tooth from northeastern Italy

scientific article published on 01 September 2020

A method for the temperature-controlled extraction of DNA from ancient bones

scientific article published in 2021

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

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A mitogenomic phylogeny of living primates

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

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A recent evolutionary change affects a regulatory element in the human FOXP2 gene

scientific article published on 28 November 2012

A systematic investigation of human DNA preservation in medieval skeletons

scientific article published on 26 October 2020

Age estimates for hominin fossils and the onset of the Upper Palaeolithic at Denisova Cave

scientific article published in Nature

An Ancient Harappan Genome Lacks Ancestry from Steppe Pastoralists or Iranian Farmers

scientific article published on 05 September 2019

An early modern human from Romania with a recent Neanderthal ancestor

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

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Ancient DNA from Guam and the peopling of the Pacific

scientific article published on 23 December 2020

Ancient gene flow from early modern humans into Eastern Neanderthals

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Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans

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Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans

Anthropology. Comment on "Late Pleistocene human skeleton and mtDNA link Paleoamericans and modern Native Americans".

scientific article published in February 2015

Climate impacts on transocean dispersal and habitat in gray whales from the Pleistocene to 2100.

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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

DNA analysis of an early modern human from Tianyuan Cave, China

scientific article (publication date: 5 February 2013)

Denisovan DNA in Late Pleistocene sediments from Baishiya Karst Cave on the Tibetan Plateau

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

Denisovan ancestry and population history of early East Asians

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

Developmental Systems Drift and the Drivers of Sex Chromosome Evolution

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

Direct multiplex sequencing (DMPS)--a novel method for targeted high-throughput sequencing of ancient and highly degraded DNA

scientific article (publication date: October 2009)

Direct radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis of the Darra-i-Kur (Afghanistan) human temporal bone

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Direct radiocarbon dating and genetic analyses on the purported Neanderthal mandible from the Monti Lessini (Italy)

scientific article published on 08 July 2016

Double indexing overcomes inaccuracies in multiplex sequencing on the Illumina platform

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Emergence of human-adapted Salmonella enterica is linked to the Neolithization process

scientific article published on 24 February 2020

Erratum to: Developmental systems drift and the drivers of sex chromosome evolution

scientific article published on 31 January 2020

Erratum: A draft genome of Yersinia pestis from victims of the Black Death

scientific article published in Nature

Exploiting gene families for phylogenomic analysis of myzostomid transcriptome data

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Extended longevity of DNA preservation in Levantine Paleolithic sediments, Sefunim Cave, Israel

scientific article published in 2022

Extending the spectrum of DNA sequences retrieved from ancient bones and teeth

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Extraction of Highly Degraded DNA from Ancient Bones and Teeth

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Extraction of highly degraded DNA from ancient bones, teeth and sediments for high-throughput sequencing

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Fossil and genomic evidence constrains the timing of bison arrival in North America.

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From micrograms to picograms: quantitative PCR reduces the material demands of high-throughput sequencing

scientific article (publication date: 2008)

Generating barcoded libraries for multiplex high-throughput sequencing.

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Genetic history of an archaic hominin group from Denisova Cave in Siberia

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Genome sequence of a 45,000-year-old modern human from western Siberia

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Genomic DNA sequences from mastodon and woolly mammoth reveal deep speciation of forest and savanna elephants

scientific article published in 2010

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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Homo sapiens reached the higher latitudes of Europe by 45,000 years ago

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

scientific article published on 19 April 2020

Identification of a new hominin bone from Denisova Cave, Siberia using collagen fingerprinting and mitochondrial DNA analysis

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Illumina sequencing library preparation for highly multiplexed target capture and sequencing

scientific article (publication date: June 2010)

Illuminating the base of the annelid tree using transcriptomics

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Initial Upper Palaeolithic Homo sapiens from Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria

scientific article published on 11 May 2020

Initial Upper Palaeolithic humans in Europe had recent Neanderthal ancestry

scientific article published in 2021

Length and GC-Biases During Sequencing Library Amplification: A Comparison of Various Polymerase-Buffer Systems with Ancient and Modern DNA Sequencing Libraries

scientific article published on February 1, 2012

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

scientific article published on 19 January 2015

Making the Most of Soils in Archaeology. A Review

Mammalian mitochondrial capture, a tool for rapid screening of DNA preservation in faunal and undiagnostic remains, and its application to Middle Pleistocene specimens from Qesem Cave (Israel)

scholarly article by Viviane Slon et al published April 2016 in Quaternary International

Manual and automated preparation of single-stranded DNA libraries for the sequencing of DNA from ancient biological remains and other sources of highly degraded DNA

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

Massive migration from the steppe is a source for Indo-European languages in Europe

Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe

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

scientific article published in 2021

Mining ancient microbiomes using selective enrichment of damaged DNA molecules

Mining ancient microbiomes using selective enrichment of damaged DNA molecules

scientific article published on 26 June 2020

Mitogenomics of macaques (Macaca) across Wallace's Line in the context of modern human dispersals

scientific article published on 08 August 2020

Molecular phylogeny, biogeography, and habitat preference evolution of marsupials

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Multilocus resolution of phylogeny and timescale in the extant adaptive radiation of Hawaiian honeycreepers.

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Multiplex amplification of ancient DNA.

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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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Palaeoproteomic evidence identifies archaic hominins associated with the Châtelperronian at the Grotte du Renne

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Parallel tagged sequencing on the 454 platform

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

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Patterns of damage in genomic DNA sequences from a Neandertal

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

scientific article published in Science

Pleistocene sediment DNA reveals hominin and faunal turnovers at Denisova Cave

scientific article published in 2021

Pluridisciplinary evidence for burial for the La Ferrassie 8 Neandertal child

scientific article published on 09 December 2020

Point-of-care bulk testing for SARS-CoV-2 by combining hybridization capture with improved colorimetric LAMP

scientific article published in 2021

Pretreatment: Removing DNA Contamination from Ancient Bones and Teeth Using Sodium Hypochlorite and Phosphate

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Quantifying and reducing spurious alignments for the analysis of ultra-short ancient DNA sequences

scientific article published on 25 October 2018

Rapid, reliable, and cheap point-of-care bulk testing for SARS-CoV-2 by combining hybridization capture with improved colorimetric LAMP (Cap-iLAMP)

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Reconstructing Prehistoric African Population Structure

scientific article published on September 2017

Reconstructing double-stranded DNA fragments on a single-molecule level reveals patterns of degradation in ancient samples

scientific article published on 22 September 2020

Reconstructing the genetic history of late Neanderthals

scientific article published in Nature

Reducing microbial and human contamination in DNA extractions from ancient bones and teeth

scientific article published on January 2014

Removal of deaminated cytosines and detection of in vivo methylation in ancient DNA.

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Road blocks on paleogenomes--polymerase extension profiling reveals the frequency of blocking lesions in ancient DNA

scientific article (publication date: September 2010)

Selective enrichment of damaged DNA molecules for ancient genome sequencing

scientific article (publication date: September 2014)

Single-stranded DNA library preparation for the sequencing of ancient or damaged DNA

scientific article published on March 14, 2013

Single-stranded DNA library preparation from highly degraded DNA using T4 DNA ligase

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Targeted high-throughput sequencing of tagged nucleic acid samples

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Targeted investigation of the Neandertal genome by array-based sequence capture

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The Genomic Formation of South and Central Asia

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The complete genome sequence of a Neanderthal from the Altai Mountains

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The earliest Denisovans and their cultural adaptation

scientific article published in 2021

The evolutionary history of Neanderthal and Denisovan Y chromosomes

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The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia

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The genetic history of Ice Age Europe

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The genome of the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father

journal article from 'Nature' published in 2018

The impact of endogenous content, replicates and pooling on genome capture from faecal samples

scientific article published on 23 October 2017

Unearthing Neanderthal population history using nuclear and mitochondrial DNA from cave sediments

scientific article published in 2021

Xenopus fraseri: Mr. Fraser, where did your frog come from?

scientific article published on 11 September 2019