Morten Erik Allentoft

Morten Erik Allentoft

Associate Professor


  1. Published

    Screening archaeological bone for palaeogenetic and palaeoproteomic studies

    Kontopoulos, I., Penkman, K., Mullin, V. E., Winkelbach, L., Unterländer, M., Scheu, A., Kreutzer, S., Hansen, H. B., Margaryan, Ashot, Teasdale, M. D., Gehlen, B., Street, M., Lynnerup, Niels, Liritzis, I., Sampson, A., Papageorgopoulou, C., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Burger, J., Bradley, D. G. & Collins, Matthew James, Jun 2020, In: PLoS ONE. 15, 6, 17 p., e0235146.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    Salt to conserve: a review on the ecology and preservation of hypersaline ecosystems

    Saccò, M., White, N. E., Harrod, C., Salazar, G., Aguilar, P., Cubillos, C. F., Meredith, K., Baxter, B. K., Oren, A., Anufriieva, E., Shadrin, N., Marambio-Alfaro, Y., Bravo-Naranjo, V. & Allentoft, Morten Erik, 2021, In: Biological Reviews. 96, 6, p. 2828-2850 23 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Rock pools as a source of environmental DNA for the detection of the threatened Pilbara olive python (Liasis olivaceus barroni)

    Mousavi-Derazmahalleh, M., Ellis, R. J., D’Rozario, B. L., Berry, T. E., Peverley, G., Dawkins, K. L., Campbell, M., White, N. E. & Allentoft, Morten Erik, 2023, In: Frontiers in Environmental Science. 11, 8 p., 1187545.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Recovering samples for ancient DNA research—guidelines for the field archaeologist

    Allentoft, Morten Erik, Dec 2013, In: Antiquity. 87, 338

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Re-theorising mobility and the formation of culture and language among the Corded Ware Culture in Europe: [incl. Corrigendum]

    Kristiansen, K., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Frei, K. M., Iversen, Rune, Johannsen, N. N., Kroonen, Guus, Pospieszny, L., Price, T. D., Rasmussen, Simon, Sjögren, K., Sikora, Martin & Willerslev, Eske, Apr 2017, In: Antiquity. 91, 356, p. 334-347

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Raptor roosts as invasion archives: insights from the first black rat mitochondrial genome sequenced from the Caribbean

    Espino, M. M., Mychajliw, A. M., Almonte, J. N., Allentoft, Morten Erik & Van Dam, A. R., 2022, In: Biological Invasions. 24, 1, p. 17-25 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  7. Quantitative Real-Time PCR in aDNA Research

    Bunce, M., Oskam, C. & Allentoft, Morten Erik, 2012, Ancient DNA: Methods and Protocols. Shapiro, B. & Hofreiter, M. (eds.). Springer Science+Business Media, p. 121-132 12 p. (Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol. 840).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Pulling out the 1%: whole-genome capture for the targeted enrichment of ancient DNA sequencing libraries

    Carpenter, M. L., Buenrostro, J. D., Valdiosera Morales, C., Schroeder, H., Allentoft, M. E., Sikora, M., Rasmussen, M., Gravel, S., Guillén, S., Nekhrizov, G., Leshtakov, K., Dimitrova, D., Theodossiev, N., Pettener, D., Luiselli, D., Sandoval, K., Moreno-Estrada, A., Li, Y., Wang, J., Gilbert, T. & 3 others, Willerslev, Eske, Greenleaf, W. J. & Bustamante, C. D., 7 Nov 2013, In: American Journal of Human Genetics. 93, 5, p. 852-864 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Profiling the dead: generating microsatellite data from fossil bones of extinct megafauna—protocols, problems, and prospects

    Allentoft, Morten Erik, Oskam, C. L., Houston, J., Hale, M. L., Gilbert, M Thomas P, Rasmussen, M., Spencer, P., Jacomb, C., Willerslev, Eske, Holdaway, R. N. & Bunce, M., 2011, In: PLoS ONE. 6, 1, 11 p., e16670.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Pretreatment: Improving endogenous ancient DNA yields using a simple enzymatic predigestion step

    Schroeder, Hannes, de Barros Damgaard, P. & Allentoft, Morten Erik, 1 Jan 2019, Methods in Molecular Biology. Humana Press, p. 21-24 4 p. (Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol. 1963).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  11. Published

    Population genomics of the Viking world: [incl. correction]

    Margaryan, A., Lawson, D. J., Sikora, M., Racimo, F., Rasmussen, S., Moltke, I., Cassidy, L. M., Jørsboe, E., Ingason, A., Pedersen, M. W., Korneliussen, T., Wilhelmson, H., Buś, M. M., de Barros Damgaard, P., Martiniano, R., Renaud, G., Bhérer, C., Moreno-Mayar, J. V., Fotakis, A. K., Allen, M. & 30 others, Allmäe, R., Molak, M., Cappellini, Enrico, Scorrano, Gabriele, McColl, Hugh, Buzhilova, A., Fox, A., Albrechtsen, Anders, Schütz, B., Skar, B., Arcini, C., Lundstrøm, I., Cheng, J., Stenderup, Jesper Tandberg, Iversen, K. H., Arge, S. V., Ellingvåg, S., Orlando, L., Pentz, P., Jessen, M. D., Pedersen, A., Jørkov, M L S, Lynnerup, Niels, Gilbert, M Thomas P, Allentoft, Morten Erik, Sindbæk, S. M., Kristiansen, K., Nielsen, Rasmus, Werge, Thomas & Willerslev, Eske, 2020, In: Nature. 585, 7825, p. 390-396 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  12. Published

    Population genomics of post-glacial western Eurasia

    Allentoft, M. E., Sikora, M., Refoyo-Martínez, A., Irving-Pease, E. K., Fischer, A., Barrie, W., Ingason, A., Stenderup, J., Sjögren, K-G., Pearson, A., da Mota, B. S., Paulsson, B. S., Halgren, A., Macleod, R., Jørkov, M. L. S., Demeter, F., Sørensen, L., Nielsen, P. O., Henriksen, R. A., Vimala, T. & 144 others, McColl, Hugh, Margaryan, Ashot, Ilardo, M., Vaughn, Andrew Howland, Mortensen, M. F., Nielsen, A. B., Hede, M. U., Johannsen, N. N., Rasmussen, P., Vinner, Lasse, Renaud, Gabriel, Stern, A., Jensen, Theis Zetner Trolle, Scorrano, Gabriele, Schroeder, Hannes, Lysdahl, P., Ramsøe, Abigail Daisy, Skorobogatov, A., Schork, A. J., Rosengren, A., Ruter, Anthony Henry, Outram, A., Timoshenko, A. A., Buzhilova, A., Coppa, A., Zubova, A., Silva, A. M., Hansen, Anders Johannes, Gromov, A., Logvin, A., Gotfredsen, Anne Birgitte, Nielsen, B. H., González-Rabanal, B., Lalueza-Fox, C., McKenzie, C. J., Gaunitz, Charleen, Blasco, C., Liesau, C., Martinez-Labarga, C., Pozdnyakov, D. V., Cuenca-Solana, D., Lordkipanidze, D. O., En’shin, D., Salazar-García, D. C., Price, T. D., Borić, D., Kostyleva, E., Veselovskaya, E. V., Usmanova, E. R., Cappellini, Enrico, Petersen, Erik Brinch, Kannegaard, E., Radina, F., Yediay, Fulya Eylem, Duday, H., Gutiérrez-Zugasti, I., Merts, I., Potekhina, I., Shevnina, I., Altinkaya, Isin, Guilaine, J., Hansen, J., Tortosa, J. E. A., Zilhão, J., Vega, J., Pedersen, K. B., Tunia, K., Zhao, Lei, Mylnikova, L. N., Larsson, L., Metz, L., Yepiskoposyan, L., Pedersen, L., Sarti, L., Orlando, L., Slimak, L., Klassen, L., Blank, M., González-Morales, M., Silvestrini, M., Vretemark, M., Nesterova, M. S., Rykun, M., Rolfo, M. F., Szmyt, M., Przybyła, M., Calattini, M., Sablin, M., Dobisíková, M., Meldgaard, Morten, Johansen, M., Berezina, N., Card, N., Saveliev, N. A., Poshekhonova, O., Rickards, O., Lozovskaya, O. V., Gábor, O., Uldum, O. C., Aurino, P., Kosintsev, P., Courtaud, P., Ríos, P., Mortensen, P., Lotz, P., Persson, P., Bangsgaard, Pernille, de Barros Damgaard, P., Vang Petersen, P., Martinez, P. P., Włodarczak, P., Smolyaninov, R. V., Maring, R., Menduiña, R., Badalyan, R., Iversen, Rune, Turin, R., Vasilyev, S., Wåhlin, S., Borutskaya, S., Skochina, S., Sørensen, S. A., Andersen, S. H., Jørgensen, T., Serikov, Y. B., Molodin, V. I., Smrcka, V., Merts, V., Appadurai, V., Moiseyev, V., Magnusson, Y., Kjær, Kurt H., Lynnerup, Niels, Lawson, D. J., Sudmant, P. H., Rasmussen, Simon, Korneliussen, Thorfinn Sand, Durbin, R., Nielsen, Rasmus, Delaneau, O., Werge, Thomas, Racimo, Fernando, Kristiansen, Kristian & Willerslev, Eske, 2024, In: Nature. 625, 7994, p. 301-311

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  13. Published

    Population genomics of bronze age Eurasia

    Allentoft, M. E., Sikora, M., Sjogren, K-G., Rasmussen, S., Rasmussen, M., Stenderup, J., Damgaard, P. D. B., Schroeder, H., Ahlstrom, T., Vinner, L., Malaspinas, A. S., Margaryan, A., Higham, T., Chivall, D., Lynnerup, N., Harvig, L. L., Baron, J., Della Casa, P., Dabrowski, P., Duffy, P. R. & 46 others, Ebel, A. V., Epimakhov, A., Frei, K., Furmanek, M., Gralak, T., Gromov, A., Gronkiewicz, S., Grupe, G., Hajdu, T., Jarysz, R., Khartanovich, V., Khokhlov, A., Kiss, V., Kolar, J., Kriiska, A., Lasak, I., Longhi, C., McGlynn, G., Merkevicius, A., Merkyte, Inga, Metspalu, M., Mkrtchyan, R., Moiseyev, V., Paja, L., Palfi, G., Pokutta, D., Pospieszny, L., Price, T. D., Saag, L., Sablin, M., Shishlina, N., Smrcka, V., Soenov, V. I., Szeverenyi, V., Toth, G., Trifanova, S. V., Varul, L., Vicze, M., Yepiskoposyan, L., Zhitenev, V., Orlando, L. A. A., Sicheritz-Ponten, T., Brunak, Søren, Nielsen, Rasmus, Kristiansen, K. & Willerslev, Eske, 2015, In: Nature Genetics. 522, 7555, p. 167-172 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  14. Published

    Population Genomics of Stone Age Eurasia

    Allentoft, M. E., Sikora, M., Refoyo-Martínez, A., Irving-Pease, E. K., Fischer, A., Barrie, W., Ingason, A., Stenderup, J., Sjögren, K-G., Pearson, A., Mota, B., Paulsson, B. S., Halgren, A., Macleod, R., Schjellerup Jørkov, M. L., Demeter, F., Novosolov, M., Sørensen, L., Nielsen, P-O., Henriksen, R. H. A. & 143 others, Vimala, Tharsika, McColl, Hugh, Margaryan, Ashot, Ilardo, M., Vaughn, A., Mortensen, M. F., Nielsen, A. B., Hede, M. U., Rasmussen, P., Vinner, Lasse, Renaud, Gabriel, Stern, A., Jensen, Theis Zetner Trolle, Johannsen, N. N., Scorrano, Gabriele, Schroeder, Hannes, Lysdahl, P., Ramsøe, Abigail Daisy, Skorobogatov, A., Schork, A. J., Rosengren, A., Ruter, Anthony Henry, Outram, A., Timoshenko, A. A., Buzhilova, A., Coppa, A., Zubova, A., Silva, A. M., Hansen, Anders Johannes, Gromov, A., Logvin, A., Gotfredsen, Anne Birgitte, Nielsen, B. H., González-Rabanal, B., Lalueza-Fox, C., McKenzie, C. J., Gaunitz, Charleen, Blasco, C., Liesau, C., Martinez-Labarga, C., Pozdnyakov, D. V., Cuenca-Solana, D., Lordkipanidze, D. O., En’shin, D., Salazar-García, D. C., Price, T. D., Borić, D., Kostyleva, E., Veselovskaya, E. V., Usmanova, E. R., Cappellini, Enrico, Petersen, Erik Brinch, Kannegaard, E., Radina, F., Yediay, Fulya Eylem, Duday, H., Gutiérrez-Zugasti, I., Potekhina, I., Shevnina, I., Altinkaya, Isin, Guilaine, J., Hansen, J., Tortosa, J. E. A., Zilhão, J., Vega, J., Pedersen, K. B., Tunia, K., Zhao, Lei, Mylnikova, L. N., Larsson, L., Metz, L., Yeppiskoposyan, L., Pedersen, L., Sarti, L., Orlando, L., Slimak, L., Klassen, L., Blank, M., González-Morales, M., Silvestrini, M., Vretemark, M., Nesterova, M. S., Rykun, M., Rolfo, M. F., Szmyt, M., Przybyła, M., Calattini, M., Sablin, M., Dobisíková, M., Meldgaard, Morten, Johansen, M., Berezina, N., Card, N., Saveliev, N. A., Poshekhonova, O., Rickards, O., Lozovskaya, O. V., Uldum, O. C., Aurino, P., Kosintsev, P., Courtaud, P., Ríos, P., Mortensen, P., Lotz, P., Persson, P. Å., Bangsgaard, Pernille, Damgaard, P. D. B., Petersen, P. V., Martinez, P. P., Włodarczak, P., Smolyaninov, R. V., Maring, R., Menduiña, R., Badalyan, R., Iversen, Rune, Turin, R., Vasilyiev, S., Wåhlin, S., Borutskaya, S., Skochina, S., Sørensen, S. A., Andersen, S. H., Jørgensen, T., Serikov, Y. B., Molodin, V. I., Smrcka, V., Merz, V., Appadurai, V., Moiseyev, V., Magnusson, Y., Kjær, Kurt H., Lynnerup, Niels, Lawson, D. J., Sudmant, P. H., Rasmussen, Simon, Korneliussen, Thorfinn Sand, Durbin, R., Nielsen, R., Delaneau, O., Werge, Thomas, Racimo, Fernando, Kristiansen, K. & Willerslev, Eske, 2022, p. 1-71, (bioRxiv).

    Research output: Working paperPreprintResearch

  15. E-pub ahead of print

    Plastic and genomic change of a newly established lizard population following a founder event

    Sabolić, I., Mira, Ó., Brandt, D. Y. C., Lisičić, D., Stapley, J., Novosolov, Maria, Bakarić, R., Cizelj, I., Glogoški, M., Hudina, T., Taverne, M., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Nielsen, R., Herrel, A. & Štambuk, A., 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Molecular Ecology. 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  16. Published

    Petrous bone diagenesis: a multi-analytical approach

    Kontopoulos, I., Penkman, K., McAllister, G. D., Lynnerup, Niels, Damgaard, P. B., Hansen, H. B., Allentoft, Morten Erik & Collins, Matthew James, 2019, In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 518, p. 143-154 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  17. Published

    Origins and genetic legacies of the Caribbean Taino

    Schroeder, H., Sikora, M., Gopalakrishnan, S., Cassidy, L. M., Delserc, P. M., Velasco, M. S., Schraiber, J. G., Rasmussen, S., Homburger, J. R., Avila-Arcos, M. C., Allentoft, M. E., Moreno Mayar, J. V., Renaud, G., Gomez-Carballa, A., Laffoon, J. E., Hopkins, R. J. A., Higham, T. F. G., Carr, R. S., Schaffer, W. C., Day, J. S. & 7 others, Hoogland, M., Salas, A., Bustamante, C. D., Nielsen, R., Bradley, D. G., Hofman, C. L. & Willerslev, Eske, 2018, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 115, 10, p. 2341-2346 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  18. Published

    Molekyler og moafugle - et populationsstudie af de sidste kæmper i New Zealand

    Allentoft, Morten Erik, 2012, In: Dansk Naturhistorisk Forenings Årsskrift. 21-22, p. 51 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleCommunication

  19. Molecular and morphological analyses of avian eggshell excavated from a late thirteenth century earth oven

    Oskam, C. L., Jacomb, C., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Walter, R., Scofield, R. P., Haile, J., Holdaway, R. N. & Bunce, M., 2011, In: Journal of Archaeological Science. 38, 10, p. 2589-2595 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  20. Moa’s Ark or volant ghosts of Gondwana? Insights from nineteen years of ancient DNA research on the extinct moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes) of New Zealand

    Allentoft, Morten Erik & Rawlence, N. J., 20 Jan 2012, In: Annals of Anatomy. 194, 1, p. 36-51 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  21. Published

    Moa bones reveal DNA half-life but Jurassic Park remains fiction

    Bunce, M. & Allentoft, Morten Erik, 2012, In: The Conversation.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleCommunication

  22. Published

    Microsatellite analysis of the natterjack toad (Bufo calamita) in Denmark: populations are islands in a fragmented landscape

    Allentoft, Morten Erik, Siegismund, Hans Redlef, Briggs, L. & Andersen, L. W., 2009, In: Conservation Genetics. 10, 1, p. 15-28

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  23. Published

    Metabarcoding under Brine: Microbial Ecology of Five Hypersaline Lakes at Rottnest Island (WA, Australia)

    Saccò, M., White, N. E., Campbell, M., Allard, S., Humphreys, W. F., Pringle, P., Sepanta, F., Laini, A. & Allentoft, Morten Erik, 2021, In: Water. 13, 14, 18 p., 1899.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  24. Published

    Mapping human mobility during the third and second millennia BC in present-day Denmark

    Frei, K. M., Bergerbrant, S., Sjögren, K., Jørkov, M L S, Lynnerup, Niels, Harvig, L., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Sikora, Martin, Price, T. D., Frei, Robert & Kristiansen, K., 2019, In: PLoS ONE. 14, 8, e0219850.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  25. Published

    Mapping co-ancestry connections between the genome of a Medieval individual and modern Europeans

    Ferrando-Bernal, M., Morcillo-Suarez, C., de-Dios, T., Gelabert, P., Civit, S., Díaz-Carvajal, A., Ollich-Castanyer, I., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Valverde, S. & Lalueza-Fox, C., 2020, In: Scientific Reports. 10, 11 p., 6843.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

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