Michael Vincent Westbury

Michael Vincent Westbury

Assistant Professor

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    1. 2021
    2. Published

      Circumpolar phylogeography and demographic history of beluga whales reflect past climatic fluctuations

      Skovrind, M., Louis, M., Westbury, M. V., Garilao, C., Kaschner, K., Castruita, J. A. S., Gopalakrishnan, S., Knudsen, S. W., Haile, J. S., Dalén, L., Meshchersky, I. G., Shpak, O. V., Glazov, D. M., Rozhnov, V. V., Litovka, D. I., Krasnova, V. V., Chernetsky, A. D., Bel'kovich, V. M., Lydersen, C., Kovacs, K. M. & 4 others, Heide-Jørgensen, M. P., Postma, L., Ferguson, S. H. & Lorenzen, Eline, Jun 2021, In: Molecular Ecology. 30, 11, p. 2543-2559 17 p.

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    3. Published

      A genomic exploration of the early evolution of extant cats and their sabre-toothed relatives: [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]

      Westbury, Michael Vincent, Barnett, R., Sandoval-Velasco, Marcela, Gower, Graham, Vieira, Filipe Garrett, de Manuel, M., Hansen, Anders Johannes, Yamaguchi, N., Werdelin, L., Marques-Bonet, T., Gilbert, M Thomas P & Lorenzen, Eline, 2021, In: Open Research Europe. 1, 16 p., 25.

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    4. Published

      A genomic exploration of the early evolution of extant cats and their sabre-toothed relatives: [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]

      Westbury, Michael Vincent, Barnett, R., Sandoval-Velasco, Marcela, Gower, Graham, Vieira, Filipe Garrett, de Manuel, M., Hansen, Anders Johannes, Yamaguchi, N., Werdelin, L., Marques-Bonet, T., Gilbert, M Thomas P & Lorenzen, Eline, 2021, In: Open Research Europe. 1, 15 p., 25.

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    5. Published

      A sliver of the past: The decimation of the genetic diversity of the Mexican wolf

      Taron, U. H., Salado, I., Escobar-Rodríguez, M., Westbury, Michael Vincent, Butschkau, S., Paijmans, J. L. A., vonHoldt, B. M., Hofreiter, M. & Leonard, J. A., 2021, In: Molecular Ecology. 30, 23, p. 6340-6354 15 p.

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    6. Published

      Ancient DNA reveals the lost domestication history of south american camelids in Northern Chile and across the andes

      Díaz-Maroto, P., Rey de la Iglesia, Alba, Cartajena, I., Núñez, L., Westbury, Michael Vincent, Varas, V., Moraga, M., Campos, P. F., Orozco-terWenge, P., Marín, J. C. & Hansen, Anders Johannes, 2021, In: eLife. 10, e63390.

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    7. Published

      Ancient and modern genomes unravel the evolutionary history of the rhinoceros family

      Liu, S., Westbury, M. V., Dussex, N., Mitchell, K. J., Sinding, M. H. S., Heintzman, P. D., Duchêne, D. A., Kapp, J. D., von Seth, J., Heiniger, H., Sánchez-Barreiro, F., Margaryan, A., André-Olsen, R., De Cahsan, B., Meng, G., Yang, C., Chen, L., van der Valk, T., Moodley, Y., Rookmaaker, K. & 19 others, Bruford, M. W., Ryder, O., Steiner, C., Sonsbeek, L. G. R. B., Vartanyan, S., Guo, C., Cooper, A., Kosintsev, P., Kirillova, I., Lister, A. M., Marques-Bonet, T., Gopalakrishnan, Shyam, Dunn, Rob, Lorenzen, Eline, Shapiro, B., KU, thw266, Antoine, P. O., Dalén, L. & Gilbert, M Thomas P, 2021, In: Cell. 184, 19, p. 4874-4885.e16

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    8. Published

      Ancient mitochondrial genomes from Chinese cave hyenas provide insights into the evolutionary history of the genus Crocuta

      Hu, J., Westbury, Michael Vincent, Yuan, J., Zhang, Z., Chen, S., Xiao, B., Hou, X., Ji, H., Lai, X., Hofreiter, M. & Sheng, G., 2021, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 288, 1943, 9 p., 20202934.

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    9. Published

      Complete mitochondrial genome of the giant root-rat (Tachyoryctes macrocephalus)

      Reuber, V. M., Rey de la Iglesia, Alba, Westbury, Michael Vincent, Cabrera, Andrea A., Farwig, N., Skovrind, Mikkel, Sumbera, R., Wube, T., Opgenoorth, L., Schabo, D. G. & Lorenzen, Eline, 2021, In: Mitochondrial DNA Part B: Resources. 6, 8, p. 2191-2193 3 p.

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    10. Published

      Diversity and Paleodemography of the Addax (Addax nasomaculatus), a Saharan Antelope on the Verge of Extinction

      Hempel, E., Westbury, Michael Vincent, Grau, J. H., Trinks, A., Paijmans, J. L. A., Kliver, S., Barlow, A., Mayer, F., Müller, J., Chen, L., Koepfli, K., Hofreiter, M. & Bibi, F., 2021, In: Genes. 12, 8, 24 p., 1236.

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    11. Published

      Ecological Specialization and Evolutionary Reticulation in Extant Hyaenidae

      Westbury, Michael Vincent, Le Duc, D., Duchene, David, Krishnan, A., Prost, S., Rutschmann, S., Grau, J. H., Dalén, L., Weyrich, A., Norén, K., Werdelin, L., Dalerum, F., Schöneberg, T. & Hofreiter, M., 2021, In: Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38, 9, p. 3884-3897 14 p.

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    12. Published

      Genomic consequences of human-mediated translocations in margin populations of an endangered amphibian

      Westbury, Binia De Cahsan, Westbury, Michael Vincent, Paraskevopoulou, S., Drews, H., Ott, M., Gollmann, G. & Tiedemann, R., 2021, In: Evolutionary Applications. 14, p. 1623-1634

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    13. Published

      Historical population declines prompted significant genomic erosion in the northern and southern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum)

      Sánchez-Barreiro, F., Gopalakrishnan, Shyam, Ramos Madrigal, Jazmin, Westbury, Michael Vincent, de Manuel, M., Margaryan, Ashot, Ciucani, M. M., Vieira, Filipe Garrett, Patramanis, Ioannis, Kalthoff, D. C., Timmons, Z., Sicheritz-Pontén, Thomas, Dalén, L., Ryder, O. A., KU, thw266, Marques-Bonet, T., Moodley, Y. & Gilbert, M Thomas P, 2021, In: Molecular Ecology. 30, 23, p. 6355-6369 15 p.

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    14. Published

      Identifying the true number of specimens of the extinct blue antelope (Hippotragus leucophaeus)

      Hempel, E., Bibi, F., Faith, J. T., Brink, J. S., Kalthoff, D. C., Kamminga, P., Paijmans, J. L. A., Westbury, Michael Vincent, Hofreiter, M. & Zachos, F. E., 2021, In: Scientific Reports. 11, 1, 14 p., 2100.

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    15. Published

      Ocean-wide genomic variation in Gray's beaked whales, Mesoplodon grayi

      Westbury, Michael Vincent, Thompson, K. F., Louis, Marie Georgette Yolande J, Cabrera, Andrea A., Skovrind, Mikkel, Castruita, J. A. S., Constantine, R., Stevens, J. R. & Lorenzen, Eline, 2021, In: Royal Society Open Science. 8, 3, 14 p., 201788.

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    16. Published

      Southern introgression increases adaptive immune gene variability in northern range margin populations of Fire-bellied toad

      Westbury, Binia De Cahsan, Kiemel, K., Westbury, Michael Vincent, Lauritsen, M., Autenrieth, M., Gollmann, G., Schweiger, S., Stenberg, M., Nyström, P., Drews, H. & Tiedemann, R., 2021, In: Ecology and Evolution. 11, 14, p. 9776-9790 15 p.

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    17. Published

      Successful application of ancient DNA extraction and library construction protocols to museum wet collection specimens

      Straube, N., Lyra, M. L., Paijmans, J. L. A., Preick, M., Basler, N., Penner, J., Rödel, M., Westbury, Michael Vincent, Haddad, C. F. B., Barlow, A. & Hofreiter, M., 2021, In: Molecular Ecology Resources. 21, 7, p. 2299-2315 17 p.

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