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Researchers from three continents work collaboratively to develop a database for aDNA metadata to streamline project planning and analysis

Community-curated and standardised metadata of published ancient metagenomic samples with AncientMetagenomeDir

Permafrost microbial communities follow shifts in vegetation, soils, and megafauna extinctions in Late Pleistocene NW North America

Ancient metagenome communities can be used to track macro-ecological changes

A female woolly mammoth’s lifetime movements end in an ancient Alaskan hunter-gatherer camp

Tracking the movement of both mammoths and native Alaskans reveals their interactions.

Eighteenth century Yersinia pestis genomes reveal the long-term persistence of an historical plague focus

The 14th-18th century pandemic of Yersinia pestis caused devastating disease outbreaks in Europe for almost 400 years. The reasons for plague’s persistence and ...

The phylogenetic affinities of the extinct glyptodonts

Among the fossils of hitherto unknown mammals that Darwin collected in South America between 1832 and 1833 during the Beagle expedition were examples of the ...

Congratulations Madeline Tapson

The entire McMaster aDNA Centre would like to congratulate Madeline Tapson for the successful defence of her Master's thesis.

Ancient DNA suggests drastically different evolutionary history for modern and extinct sloths

New mitochondrial genomes for extinct sloths suggests a very different evolutionary path for giant ground and Caribbean sloths.

Plasmodium falciparum malaria in 1st–2nd century CE southern Italy

Using ancient DNA technology, we were able to retrieve over 50% of the Plasmodium falciparum mitochondrial genome from two adults in different localities.

Shotgun Mitogenomics Provides a Reference Phylogenetic Framework and Timescale for Living Xenarthrans

McMaster Ancient DNA Centre researchers and collaborators study sequences all living Xenarthra (armadillos, sloths, and anteaters); the first major placental ...

A molecular analysis of dietary diversity for three archaic Native Americans

Here we report the DNA anlysis of three 2,000 year old Native American paleofecal samples from Hinds Cave, Texas. Analysis shows that these individuals ...