Selected Research Papers by Lab Members:

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Stewart Johnson, S., Hebsgaard, MB., Christensen T., Mastepanov M., Nielsen R., Munch K., Brand T., Gilbert MTP., Zuber MT., Bunce M., Rønn R., Gilichinsky D., Froese D and Willerslev E. Ancient Bacteria Show Evidence of DNA Repair. Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences (USA). Accepted for publication 2nd August 2007.

Willerslev, E., Cappellini, E., Boomsma, W., Nielsen, R., Hebsgaard, M. B., Brand, T. B., Hofreiter, M., Bunce, M., Poinar, H. N., Dahl-Jensen, D., Johnsen, S., Steffensen, J. P., Bennike, O., Schwenninger, J.-L., Nathan, R., Armitage, S., de Hoog, C.-J., Alfimov, V., Christl, M., Beer, J., Muscheler, R., Barker, J., Sharp, M., Penkman, K. E. H., Haile, J., Taberlet, P., Gilbert, M. T. P., Casoli, A., Campani, E., and Collins, M. J. (2007). Ancient Biomolecules from Deep Ice Cores Reveal a Forested Southern Greenland. Science 317(5834), 111-114.

Haile J, Holdaway R, Oliver K, Bunce M, Gilbert MTP, et al. 2007. Ancient DNA chronology within sediment deposits: Are paleobiological reconstructions possible and is DNA leaching a factor? Molecular Biology and Evolution 24: 982-9
Spencer, P. B. S., Cardoso, M., How, R. A., Williams, J., Bunce, M., and Schmitt, L. H. (2007) Cross-species amplification at microsatellite loci in Australian quolls including the description of five new markers from the Chuditch (Dasyurus geoffroii). Molecular Ecology Notes. published online June 2007.

Gilbert MTP, Haselkorn T, Bunce M, Sanchez JJ, Lucas SB, et al. (2007) The Isolation of Nucleic Acids from Fixed, Paraffin-Embedded Tissues–Which Methods Are Useful When?. PLoS ONE 2(6): e537. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000537

Vuissoz A, Worobey M, Odegaard N, Bunce M, Machado CA, Lynnerup N, Peacock E, Gilbert MTP (2007) The survival of PCR-amplifiable DNA in cow leather. J Arch Sci 34, 823-829

Bunce, M & Holdaway, RN (2006). New Zealand 's extinct giant eagle. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club, 126a, 4-7.

Binladen J, Wiuf C, Gilbert MTP, Bunce M, Barnett R, Larson G, Greenwood AD, Haile J, Ho SYW, Hansen AJ, Willerslev E. 2006 Assessing the fidelity of ancient DNA sequences amplified from nuclear genes. Genetics 172: 733-741

Lister, A. M., Edwards, C. J., Nock, D., Bunce, M., van Pijlen, I, A., Bradley, D. G., Thomas, M. G. and Barnes, I. (2005) The phylogenetic position of the ‘giant deer’ Megaloceros giganteus: congruence of molecular and morphological evidence. Nature 438, 850-853.

Bunce, M., Szulkin, M., Lerner, H.R.L., Barnes, I., Shapiro, B., Cooper, A. and Holdaway, R. N. (2005). Ancient DNA provides new insights into the evolutionary history of New Zealand’s extinct giant eagle. PloS Biology. 3(1): e9. Click here to download pdf

Gilbert, M. T.P., Wilson, A. S., Bunce, M., Hansen, A. J., Willerslev, E., Shapiro, B. A., Higham, T. F. G., Richards, M. P., O'Connell, T. C., Tobin, D. J., Janaway, R. C. and Cooper, A. (2004) Ancient mitochondrial DNA from hair. Current Biology 14 (12): R463-464.

Bunce, M., Worthy, T. H., Ford, T., Hoppitt, W., Willerslev, E., Drummond, A., and Cooper, A. (2003). Extreme reversed sexual size dimorphism in the extinct New Zealand moa Dinornis. Nature 425, 172-175. (440k pdf. click here to download)

Willerslev E, Hansen AJ, Binladen J, Brand TB, Gilbert MTP, Shapiro B, Bunce M, Wiuf C, Gilichinsky DA, Cooper A (2003) Diverse plant and animal genetic records from Holocene and Pleistocene sediments Science 300 (5620): 791-795

Worthy, T.H., Bunce, M., Cooper, A. & Scofield, P. 2005. Dinornis– an insular oddity, a taxonomic conundrum reviewed. In Alcover, J.A. & Bover, P. (eds.): Proceedings of the International Symposium “Insular Vertebrate Evolution: the Palaeontological Approach”. Monografies de la Societat d’Història Natural de les Balears, 12: 377-390.

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