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  • Sinding, Mikkel Holger Strander; Gopalakrishnan, Shyam; Ramos-Madrigal, Jazmín; de Manuel, Marc; Pitulko, Vladimir V.; Kuderna, Lukas; Feuerborn, Tatiana R.; Frantz, Laurent A.F.; Vieira, Filipe G.; Niemann, Jonas; Castruita, Jose A. Samaniego; Carøe, Christian; Andersen-Ranberg, Emilie; Jordan, Peter; Pavlova, Elena Y.; Nikolskiy, Pavel A.; Kasparov, Aleksei K.; Ivanova, Varvara V.; Willerslev, Eske; Skoglund, Pontus; Fredholm, Merete; Wennerberg, Sanne Eline; Heide Jørgensen, Mads Peter; Dietz, Rune; Sonne, Christian; Meldgaard, Morten; Dalén, Love; Larson, Greger; Petersen, Bent; Sicheritz-Ponten, Thomas; Bachmann, Lutz; Wiig, Øystein; Marques-Bonet, Tomas; Hansen, Anders J; Gilbert, M. Thomas P. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2020)
    Although sled dogs are one of the most specialized groups of dogs, their origin and evolution has received much less attention than many other dog groups. We applied a genomic approach to investigate their spatiotemporal ...
  • Egger, Bernhard; Bachmann, Lutz; Fromm, Bastian (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    Background To date, mitochondrial genomes of more than one hundred flatworms (Platyhelminthes) have been sequenced. They show a high degree of similarity and a strong taxonomic bias towards parasitic lineages. ...
  • Fromm, Bastian; Tosar, Juan Pablo; Aguilera, Felipe; Friedlaender, Marc R.; Bachmann, Lutz; Hejnol, Andreas (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
    Gastrotrichs—’hairy bellies’—are microscopic free-living animals inhabiting marine and freshwater habitats. Based on morphological and early molecular analyses, gastrotrichs were placed close to nematodes, but recent ...
  • Struck, Torsten H; Feder, Jeffrey L.; Bendiksby, Mika; Birkeland, Siri; Cerca, Jose; Gusarov, Vladimir; Kistenich, Sonja; Larsson, Karl-Henrik; Liow, Lee Hsiang; Nowak, Michael; Stedje, Brita; Bachmann, Lutz; Dimitrov, Dimitar (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2018)
    Cryptic species could represent a substantial fraction of biodiversity. However, inconsistent definitions and taxonomic treatment of cryptic species prevent informed estimates of their contribution to biodiversity and ...
  • Lindqvist, Charlotte; Roy, Tilottama; Lydersen, Christian; Kovacs, Kit M; Aars, Jon; Wiig, Øystein; Bachmann, Lutz (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
    Background The population size of Atlantic walruses (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus) is depleted relative to historical abundance levels. In Svalbard, centuries of over-exploitation brought the walrus herds to ...
  • Ramos Madrigal, Jazmín; Sinding, Mikkel Holger Strander; Carøe, Christian; Mak, Sarah S.T.; Niemann, Jonas; Samaniengo Casruita, Jose A; Fedorov, Sergey; Kandyba, Alexander; Germonpré, Mietje; Bocherens, Herve; Feuerborn, Tatiana R.; Pitulko, Vladimir V.; Pavlova, Elena Y.; Nikolskiy, Pavel A.; Kasparov, Aleksei K.; Ivanova, Varvara V.; Larson, Greger; Frantz, Laurent A.F.; Willerslev, Eske; Meldgaard, Morten; Petersen, Bent; Sicheritz-Ponten, Thomas; Bachmann, Lutz; Wiig, Øystein; Hansen, Anders J.; Gilbert, M. Thomas P.; Gopalakrishnan, Shyam (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    Extant Canis lupus genetic diversity can be grouped into three phylogenetically distinct clades: Eurasian and American wolves and domestic dogs.1 Genetic studies have suggested these groups trace their origins to a wolf ...
  • Cerca, José; Westbury, Michael V; Heide-Jørgensen, Mads-Peter; Kovacs, Kit M.; Lorenzen, Eline D.; Lydersen, Christian; Shpak, Olga V.; Wiig, Øystein; Bachmann, Lutz (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    Abstract The East Greenland-Svalbard-Barents Sea (EGSB) bowhead whale stock ( Balaena mysticetus ) was hunted to near extinction and remains Endangered on the International Union of Conservation of Nature Red List. The ...
  • Lan, Tianying; Leppälä, Kalle; Tomlin, Crystal; Talbot, Sandra L; Sage, George K.; Farley, Sean; Shideler, Richard T.; Bachmann, Lutz; Wiig, Øystein; Albert, Victor A; Salojärvi, Jarkko; Mailund, Thomas; Drautz-Moses, Daniela I.; Herrera-Estrella, Luis; Lindqvist, Charlotte (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) has become a symbol of the threat to biodiversity from climate change. Understanding polar bear evolutionary history may provide insights into apex carnivore responses and prospects during ...
  • Gopalakrishnan, S.; Sinding, Mikkel Holger Strander; Ramos-Madrigal, J.; Niemann, J.; Castruita, J.A.S.; Vieira, S.G.; Carøe, C.; Montero, M.M.; Kuderna, L.; Serres, A.; Gonzales, V.M.; Liu, H-H; Wang, G-D.; Marques-Bonett, T.; Mirarab, S.; Fernandes, C.; Gaubert, P.; Koepfli, K-P.; Budd, J.; Rueness, E.K.; Heide-Jørgensen, M.P.; Petersen, B.; Sicheritz-Ponten, T.; Bachmann, Lutz; Wiig, Øystein; Hansen, A.J.; Gilbert, M.T.P. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    The evolutionary history of the wolf-like canids of the genus Canis has been heavily debated, especially regarding the number of distinct species and their relationships at the population and species level [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ...
  • Fromm, Bastian; David Harris, Philip; Bachmann, Lutz (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2011)
    Background Describing and evaluating miRNA inventories with Next Generation Sequencing is a goal of scientists from a wide range of fields. It requires high purity, high quality, and high yield RNA extractions ...
  • Anmarkrud, Jarl A; Kleven, Oddmund; Bachmann, Lutz; Lifjeld, Jan T (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2008)
    Background Microsatellites are frequently used genetic markers in a wide range of applications, primarily due to their high length polymorphism levels that can easily be genotyped by fragment length analysis. ...
  • Grond, Koost; Piecha, Magdalena; Hahn, Christoph; Wiig, Øystein; Bachmann, Lutz (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
    The endangered Spitsbergen stock of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) has once been large with up to estimated 100,000 individuals. Genetic diversity of the extant Spitsbergen stock is unknown. We present 10 complete ...
  • Bachmann, Lutz; Cabrera, Andrea A.; Heide-Jørgensen, Mads-Peter; Shpak, Olga V.; Lydersen, Christian; Wiig, Øystein; Kovacs, Kit M. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
    Abstract Full mitochondrial genomes were assembled for 12 recently sampled animals from the Svalbard bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) stock via high-throughput sequencing data, facilitating analysis of the ...
  • Martinsen, Lene; Venanzetti, Federica; Johnsen, Arild; Sbordoni, Valerio; Bachmann, Lutz (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2009)
    Background Non-coding satellite DNA (satDNA) usually has a high turn-over rate frequently leading to species specific patterns. However, some satDNA families evolve more slowly and can be found in several ...
  • Tschá, Marcel K.; Bachmann, Lutz; Abilhoa, Vinicius; Boeger, Walter A (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
    The Atlantic coast of South America is characterized by a great diversity and endemism of fishes. Past eustatic changes that promoted cycles of isolation, expansion, and connection of coastal catchments are considered ...
  • Bachmann, Lutz; Däubl, Barbara; Lindqvist, Charlotte; Kruckenhauser, Luise; Teschler-Nicola, Maria; Haring, Elisabeth (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2008)
    Background In the present pilot study we applied recently published protocols for detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis in human remains. We screened long bones from an 18th century cemetery and skulls from ...
  • Martinsen, Lene; Johnsen, Arild; Venanzetti, Federica; Bachmann, Lutz (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2010)
    Background The great variety in sequence, length, complexity, and abundance of satellite DNA has made it difficult to ascribe any function to this genome component. Recent studies have shown that satellite ...
  • Sinding, Mikkel Holger Strander; Gopalakrishnan, Shyam; Vieira, Filipe G.; Samaniego, Jose A; Raundrup, Katrine; Heide Jørgensen, Mads Peter; Meldgaard, Morten; Petersen, Bent; Sicheritz-Ponten, Thomas; Mikkelsen, Johan Brus; Marquard-Petersen, Ulf; Dietz, Rune; Sonne, Christian; Dalén, Love; Bachmann, Lutz; Wiig, Øystein; Hansen, Anders J.; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    North America is currently home to a number of grey wolf (Canis lupus) and wolf-like canid populations, including the coyote (Canis latrans) and the taxonomically controversial red, Eastern timber and Great Lakes wolves. ...
  • Maduna, Simo; Aars, Jon; Fløystad, Ida; Klutsch, Cornelya; Fiskebeck, Eve Marie Louise Zeyl; Wiig, Øystein; Ehrich, Dorothee; Andersen, Magnus; Bachmann, Lutz; Derocher, Andrew E.; Nyman, Tommi; Eiken, Hans Geir; Hagen, Snorre (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    Loss of Arctic sea ice owing to climate change is predicted to reduce both genetic diversity and gene flow in ice-dependent species, with potentially negative consequences for their long-term viability. Here, we tested for ...
  • Ameen, Carly; Feuerborn, Tatiana R.; Brown, Sarah K.; Linderholm, Anna; Hulme-Beaman, Ardern; Lebrasseur, Ophelie; Sinding, Mikkel Holger Strander; Lounsberry, Zachary T.; Lin, Audrey T.; Appelt, Martin; Bachmann, Lutz; Betts, Matthew; Britton, Kate; Darwent, John; Dietz, Rune; Fredholm, Merethe; Gopalakrishnan, Shyam; Goruinova, Olga I.; Grønnow, Bjarne; Haile, James; Hallsson, Jón Hallsteinn; Harrison, Ramona; Heide-Jørgensen, Mads-Peter; Knecht, Rick; Losey, Robert J.; Masson-MacLean, Edouard; McGovern, Thomas H.; McMagnus-Fry, Ellen; Meldgaard, Morten; Midtdal, Åslaug; Moss, Madonna L.; Nikitin, Iurii G.; Nomokonova, Tatiana; Palsdottir, Albina Hulda; Perri, Angela; Popov, Aleksandr N.; Rankin, Lisa; Reuther, Joshua D.; Sablin, Mikhail V.; Schmidt, Anne Lisbeth; Shirar, Scott; Smiarowski, Konrad; Sonne, Christian; Stiner, Mary C.; Vasyukov, Mitya; West, Catherine F.; Ween, Gro Birgit; Wennerberg, Sanne Eline; Wiig, Øystein; Woollett, James; Dalén, Love; Hansen, Anders J.; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Sacks, Benjamin N; Frantz, Laurent A.F.; Larson, Greger; Dobney, Keith; Darwent, Christyann M.; Evin, Allowen (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
    Domestic dogs have been central to life in the North American Arctic for millennia. The ancestors of the Inuit were the first to introduce the widespread usage of dog sledge transportation technology to the Americas, but ...