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Unreliable mtDNA data due to nuclear insertions: a cautionary tale from analysis of humans and other great apes

An analysis on the possible pitfalls 'numts' represent to mitochondrial DNA barcode data. We show that gorillas are particularly notable for possessing a ...

Nuclear Gene Sequences from a Late Pleistocene Sloth Coprolite

Here we show that nuclear DNA can be recovered from non-permafrost remains, but amplifying one multicopy and three single-copy nuclear gene fragments from a ...

The Genetic Secrets Some Fossils Hold

Here we summarize screening approaches that can identify well-preserved specimens for ancient DNA analysis.

Molecular Coproscopy: Dung and Diet of the Extinct Ground Sloth Nothrotheriops shastensis

Here we show a chemical agent, N-enacylthiazolium bromide, which cleaves cross-links between reducing sugars and amino groups making it possible for DNA ...

New software opens doors for biologists working with publicly available data.

Research software from McMaster provides new avenues for geneticists to access and interpret datasets from the National Centre for Biotechnology Information ...

Expert Perspectives on the Coronavirus Pandemic

Hendrik Poinar explains viral evolution and why so many diseases seem to come from animals in New Yorker expert panel.

Congratulations Ana Duggan, Banting Fellow

Congratulations to Ana Duggan on receiving a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Sequencing the complete genomes of two Siberian woolly mammoths

With an international team of collaborators, the McMaster Ancient DNA Centre is pleased to report the first complete genome sequences of two Siberian woolly ...

Congratulations Nathalie Mouttham

Everyone at the McMaster aDNA Centre would like to congratulate Nathalie Mouttham for the successful completion of her MSc defence.

DNA: New Methods Yield Mammoth Samples

Science Mag article on our recent paper taking a metagenomics approach to the sequence of ancient mammoth DNA.