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Antibiotic resistance is ancient

This work illustrates that antibiotic resistance is a naturally occurring, widespread phenomenon that predates our extensive use of antibiotics. This is ...

Complete Columbian mammoth mitogenome suggests interbreeding with woolly mammoths

Here we report the first complete mitochondrial genomes of a Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) and a North American Woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius). ...

DNA points to climate in mammoth whodunit

A new analysis of ancient mammoth DNA backs climate as the main culprit in their extinction, partially exonerating paleolithic human hunters.

Congratulations Emil Karpinski

The Mac aDNA Centre would like to celebrate Emil Karpinski's successful PhD defence.

Collapse of the mammoth-steppe in central Yukon as revealed by ancient environmental DNA

Ancient environmental DNA reconstructs the Pleistocene-Holocene ecological transition using permafrost sediments from central Yukon and finds evidence for the ...

Probe design for simultaneous, targeted capture of diverse metagenomic targets

HUBDesign: A bioinformatic pipeline for designing probes capable of capturing broad targets of interest in metagenomic settings.

Pleistocene mitogenomes reconstructed from the environmental DNA of permafrost sediments

No bones about it: assembling mitochondrial genomes of Pleistocene fauna over 40,000 years from open-air sediments allows for the phylogenetic analysis of ...

Plagued by a cryptic clock: insight and issues from the global phylogeny of Yersinia pestis

Pandemic Y. pestis lineages emerged decades before being historically documented from European sources.

Letter from Maia Lappano

Letter from future scientist, Maia Lappano.

Molecular caving

Since fecal remnants are probably one of the major components of dry cave sediments, we decided to extract ancient DNA from the sediment of Rampart Cave, ...