Morten Erik Allentoft

Morten Erik Allentoft

Associate Professor


  1. Published

    Genomic evidence for the Pleistocene and recent population history of Native Americans

    Raghavan, M., Steinrücken, M., Harris, K., Schiffels, S., Rasmussen, S., DeGiorgio, M., Albrechtsen, A., Valdiosera Morales, C. E., Avila Arcos, M. D. C., Malaspinas, A. S., Eriksson, A., Moltke, I., Metspalu, M., Homburger, J. R., Wall, J., Cornejo, O. E., Moreno Mayar, J. V., Korneliussen, T. S., Pierre, T. L., Rasmussen, M. & 81 others, Campos, P., Damgaard, P. D. B., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Lindo, J., Metspalu, E., Rodríguez-Varela, R., Mansilla, J., Henrickson, C., Seguin-Orlando, A., Malmström, H., Stafford jr., T., Shringarpure, S. S., Moreno-Estrada, A., Karmin, M., Tambets, K., Bergström, A., Xue, Y., Warmuth, V., Friend, A. D., Singarayer, J., Valdes, P., Balloux, F., Leboreiro, I., Vera, J. L., Rangel-Villalobos, H., Pettener, D., Luiselli, D., Davis, L. G., Heyer, E., Zollikofer, C. P. E., Ponce de León, M. S., Smith, C. I., Grimes, V., Pike, K., Deal, M., Fuller, B. T., Arriaza, B., Standen, V., Luz, M. F., Ricaut, F., Guidon, N., Osipova, L., Voevoda, M. I., Posukh, O. L., Balanovsky, O., Lavryashina, M., Bogunov, Y., Khusnutdinova, E., Gubina, M., Balanovska, E., Fedorova, S., Litvinov, S., Malyarchuk, B., Derenko, M., Mosher, M. J., Archer, D., Cybulski, J., Petzelt, B., Mitchell, J., Worl, R., Norman, P. J., Parham, P., Kemp, B. M., Kivisild, T., Tyler-Smith, C., Sandhu, M. S., Crawford, M., Villems, R., Smith, D. G., Waters, M. R., Goebel, T., Johnson, J. R., Malhi, R. S., Jakobsson, M., Meltzer, D. J., Manica, A., Durbin, R., Bustamante, C. D., Song, Y. S., Nielsen, Rasmus & Willerslev, Eske, 2015, In: Science (New York, N.Y.). 349, 6250, 6250.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  2. Global amphibian declines, loss of genetic diversity and fitness: a review

    Allentoft, Morten Erik & O'Brien, J., 2010, In: Diversity. 2, 1, p. 47-71 25 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Groundwater is a hidden global keystone ecosystem

    Saccò, M., Mammola, S., Altermatt, F., Alther, R., Bolpagni, R., Brancelj, A., Brankovits, D., Fišer, C., Gerovasileiou, V., Griebler, C., Guareschi, S., Hose, G. C., Korbel, K., Lictevout, E., Malard, F., Martínez, A., Niemiller, M. L., Robertson, A., Tanalgo, K. C., Bichuette, M. E. & 31 others, Borko, Š., Brad, T., Campbell, M. A., Cardoso, P., Celico, F., Cooper, S. J. B., Culver, D., Di Lorenzo, T., Galassi, D. M. P., Guzik, M. T., Hartland, A., Humphreys, W. F., Ferreira, R. L., Lunghi, E., Nizzoli, D., Perina, G., Raghavan, R., Richards, Z., Reboleira, A. S. P. S., Rohde, M. M., Fernández, D. S., Schmidt, S. I., van der Heyde, M., Weaver, L., White, N. E., Zagmajster, M., Hogg, I., Ruhi, A., Gagnon, M. M., Allentoft, Morten Erik & Reinecke, R., 2024, In: Global Change Biology. 30, 1, 21 p., e17066.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    High Y-chromosomal differentiation among ethnic groups of Dir and Swat districts, Pakistan

    Ullah, I., Olofsson, Jill Katharina, Margaryan, Ashot, Ilardo, M., Ahmad, H., Sikora, Martin, Hansen, Anders Johannes, Shahid Nadeem, M., Fazal, N., Ali, M., Buchard, Anders, Hemphill, B. E., Willerslev, Eske & Allentoft, Morten Erik, Nov 2017, In: Annals of Human Genetics. 81, 6, p. 234–248

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    High-precision dating and ancient DNA profiling of moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes) eggshell documents a complex feature at Wairau Bar and refines the chronology of New Zealand settlement by Polynesians

    Jacomb, C., Holdaway, R. N., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Bunce, M., Oskam, C. L., Walters, R. & Brooks, E., 2014, In: Journal of Archaeological Science. 50, p. 24-30 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  6. Highly skewed sex ratios and biased fossil deposition of moa: ancient DNA provides new insight on New Zealand’s extinct megafauna

    Allentoft, Morten Erik, Bunce, M., Scofield, R. P., Hale, M. L. & Holdaway, R. N., 2010, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 29, 5-6, p. 753-762 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Historien om et hugormebid - og lidt om viperidernes gift

    Allentoft, Morten Erik, 2006, In: Nordisk Herpetologisk Forening. 49, 2

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleCommunication

  8. Published

    Human Disease Variation in the Light of Population Genomics

    Prohaska, Ana, Racimo, Fernando, Schork, A. J., Sikora, Martin, Stern, A. J., Ilardo, M., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Folkersen, L., Buil, A., Moreno Mayar, J. Víctor, Korneliussen, Thorfinn Sand, Geschwind, D., Ingason, A., Werge, Thomas, Nielsen, Rasmus & Willerslev, Eske, 2019, In: Cell. 177, 1, p. 115-131 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearchpeer-review

  9. Identification of an optimal sampling position for stable isotopic analysis of bone collagen of extinct moa (Aves: Emeidae)

    Holdaway, R. N., Hawke, D. J., Bunce, M. & Allentoft, Morten Erik, 2011, In: Notornis. 58, p. 1-7 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Identification of microsatellites from an extinct moa species using high-throughput (454) sequence data

    Allentoft, Morten Erik, Schuster, S. C., Holdaway, R. N., Hale, M. L., McLay, E., Oskam, C. L., Gilbert, M Thomas P, Spencer, P., Willerslev, Eske & Bunce, M., 2009, In: BioTechniques. 46, 3, p. 195-200 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  11. Published

    Identifying conservation units after large-scale land clearing: a spatio-temporal molecular survey of endangered white-tailed black cockatoos (Calyptorhynchus spp.)

    White, N. E., Bunce, M., Mawson, P. R., Dawson, R., Saunders, D. A. & Allentoft, Morten Erik, 2014, In: Diversity and Distributions. 20, 10, p. 1208-1220 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  12. Published

    Improving access to endogenous DNA in ancient bones and teeth

    Damgaard, P. D. B., Margaryan, Ashot, Schroeder, Hannes, Orlando, L. A. A., Willerslev, Eske & Allentoft, Morten Erik, 2015, In: Scientific Reports. 5, 12 p., 11184.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  13. Published

    Imputation of ancient genomes

    da Mota, B. S., Rubinacci, S., Dávalos, D. I. C., Amorim, C. E. G., Sikora, Martin, Johannsen, N. N., Szmyt, M., Włodarczak, P., Szczepanek, A., Przybyła, M. M., Schroeder, Hannes, Allentoft, Morten Erik, Willerslev, Eske, Malaspinas, A. & Delaneau, O., 2022, bioRxiv, 34 p.

    Research output: Working paperPreprintResearch

  14. Published

    Imputation of ancient human genomes

    Sousa da Mota, B., Rubinacci, S., Dávalos, D. I. C., Amorim, C. E. G., Sikora, Martin, Johannsen, N. N., Szmyt, M. H., Włodarczak, P., Szczepanek, A., Przybyła, M. M., Schroeder, Hannes, Allentoft, Morten Erik, Willerslev, Eske, Malaspinas, A. & Delaneau, O., 2023, In: Nature Communications. 14, 17 p., 3660.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  15. Published

    Kinship and social organization in Copper Age Europe. A cross-disciplinary analysis of archaeology, DNA, isotopes, and anthropology from two Bell Beaker cemeteries

    Sjögren, K., Olalde, I., Carver, S., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Knowles, T., Kroonen, Guus, Pike, A. W. G., Schröter, P., Brown, K. A., Brown, K. R., Harrison, R. J., Bertemes, F., Reich, D., Kristiansen, K. & Heyd, V., 2020, In: PLoS ONE. 15, 11, 28 p., e0241278.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. 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

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