Frido Welker

Frido Welker

Associate Professor

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    1. Published

      Initial Upper Palaeolithic humans in Europe had recent Neanderthal ancestry

      Hajdinjak, M., Mafessoni, F., Skov, L., Vernot, B., Hübner, A., Fu, Q., Essel, E., Nagel, S., Nickel, B., Richter, J., Moldovan, O. T., Constantin, S., Endarova, E., Zahariev, N., Spasov, R., Welker, F., Smith, G. M., Sinet-Mathiot, V., Paskulin, L., Fewlass, H. & 12 others, Talamo, S., Rezek, Z., Sirakova, S., Sirakov, N., McPherron, S. P., Tsanova, T., Hublin, J., Peter, B. M., Meyer, M., Skoglund, P., Kelso, J. & Pääbo, S., 2021, In: Nature. 592, 7853, p. 253-257 5 p.

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    2. Published

      Initial Upper Palaeolithic Homo sapiens from Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria

      Hublin, J. J., Sirakov, N., Aldeias, V., Bailey, S., Bard, E., Delvigne, V., Endarova, E., Fagault, Y., Fewlass, H., Hajdinjak, M., Kromer, B., Krumov, I., Marreiros, J., Martisius, N. L., Paskulin, L., Sinet-Mathiot, V., Meyer, M., Pääbo, S., Popov, V., Rezek, Z. & 12 others, Sirakova, S., Skinner, M. M., Smith, G. M., Spasov, R., Talamo, S., Tuna, T., Wacker, L., Welker, Frido, Wilcke, A., Zahariev, N., McPherron, S. P. & Tsanova, T., 2020, In: Nature. 581, p. 299-302

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    3. Published

      Increasing sustainability in palaeoproteomics by optimizing digestion times for large-scale archaeological bone analyses

      Le Meillour, Louise, Sinet-Mathiot, V., Ásmundsdóttir, Ragnheiður Diljá, Hansen, Jakob, Mylopotamitaki, Dorothea, Troché, Gaudry Bruno, Xia, H., Herrera Bethencourt, J., Ruebens, K., Smith, G. M., Fagernäs, Zandra Selina & Welker, Frido, 2024, In: iScience. 27, 4, 17 p., 109432.

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    4. Published

      Identifying the unidentified fauna enhances insights into hominin subsistence strategies during the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition

      Sinet-Mathiot, V., Rendu, W., Steele, T. E., Spasov, R., Madelaine, S., Renou, S., Soulier, M. C., Martisius, N. L., Aldeias, V., Endarova, E., Goldberg, P., McPherron, S. J. P., Rezek, Z., Sandgathe, D., Sirakov, N., Sirakova, S., Soressi, M., Tsanova, T., Turq, A., Hublin, J-J. & 2 others, Welker, Frido & Smith, G. M., 2023, In: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 15, 9, 18 p., 139.

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    5. Published

      Human and cervid osseous materials used for barbed point manufacture in Mesolithic Doggerland

      Dekker, J., Sinet-Mathiot, V., Spithoven, M., Smit, B., Wilcke, A., Welker, Frido, Verpoorte, A. & Soressi, M., 2021, In: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 35, 9 p., 102678.

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    6. Published

      Exceptionally high delta N-15 values in collagen single amino acids confirm Neandertals as high-trophic level carnivores

      Jaouen, K., Richards, M. P., Le Cabec, A., Welker, Frido, Rendu, W., Hublin, J., Soressi, M. & Talamo, S., 2019, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 116, 11, p. 4928-4933

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    7. Published

      Enamel proteome shows that Gigantopithecus was an early diverging pongine

      Welker, Frido, Ramos Madrigal, Jazmin, Kuhlwilm, M., Liao, W., Gutenbrunner, P., de Manuel, M., Samodova, D., Mackie, Meaghan, Allentoft, Morten Erik, Bacon, A., Collins, Matthew James, Cox, J., Lalueza-Fox, C., Olsen, Jesper Velgaard, Demeter, Fabrice, Wang, W., Marques-Bonet, T. & Cappellini, Enrico, 2019, In: Nature. 576, p. 262-265

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    8. Published

      Enamel proteome sequences from Dmanisi (Georgia) enable molecular phylogeny beyond the limits of ancient DNA preservation

      Cappellini, Enrico, Welker, Frido, Olsen, Jesper Velgaard, Lordkipanidze, D. & Willerslev, Eske, 2019, In: American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 168, suppl. 68, p. 35 1 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journalConference abstract in journalResearch

    9. Published

      Elucidation of cross-species proteomic effects in human and hominin bone proteome identification through a bioinformatics experiment

      Welker, Frido, 2018, In: BMC Evolutionary Biology. 18, 23, 11 p.

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    10. Published

      Editorial

      Welker, Frido, 2022, In: Journal of Proteomics. 253, 2 p., 104460.

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    11. Published

      Early pastoral economies along the Ancient Silk Road: Biomolecular evidence from the Alay Valley, Kyrgyzstan

      Taylor, W., Shnaider, S., Abdykanova, A., Fages, A., Welker, Frido, Irmer, F., Seguin-orlando, A., Khan, N., Douka, K., Kolobova, K., Orlando, L., Krivoshapkin, A., Boivin, N. & Hardy, K. (ed.), Sep 2018, In: PLOS ONE. 13, 10, 19 p., e0205646.

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    12. Published

      Early Pleistocene enamel proteome from Dmanisi resolves Stephanorhinus phylogeny

      Cappellini, E., Welker, F., Pandolfi, L., Ramos-Madrigal, J., Samodova, D., Rüther, P. L., Fotakis, A. K., Lyon, D., Moreno-Mayar, J. V., Bukhsianidze, M., Rakownikow Jersie-Christensen, R., Mackie, M., Ginolhac, A., Ferring, R., Tappen, M., Palkopoulou, E., Dickinson, M. R., Stafford, T. W., Chan, Y. L., Götherström, A. & 23 others, Nathan, S. K. S. S., Heintzman, P. D., Kapp, J. D., Kirillova, I., Moodley, Y., Agusti, J., Kahlke, R. D., Kiladze, G., Martínez-Navarro, B., Liu, Shanlin, Sandoval-Velasco, Marcela, Sinding, Mikkel Holger Strander, Kelstrup, C. D., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Orlando, L., Penkman, K., Shapiro, B., Rook, L., Dalén, L., Gilbert, M Thomas P, Olsen, Jesper Velgaard, Lordkipanidze, D. & Willerslev, Eske, 2019, In: Nature. 574, 7776, p. 103-107

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    13. Direct radiocarbon dating and genetic analyses on the purported Neanderthal mandible from the Monti Lessini (Italy)

      Talamo, S., Hajdinjak, M., Mannino, M. A., Fasani, L., Welker, Frido, Martini, F., Romagnoli, F., Zorzin, R., Meyer, M. & Hublin, J., 2016, In: Scientific Reports. 6, 9 p., 29144.

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    14. Published

      Digging deeper into ancient skeletal proteomes through consecutive digestion with multiple proteases

      Fagernäs, Zandra Selina, Troché, Gaudry Bruno, Olsen, Jesper Velgaard & Welker, Frido, 2024, In: Journal of Proteomics. 298, 10 p., 105143.

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    15. E-pub ahead of print

      Deep-time phylogenetic inference by paleoproteomic analysis of dental enamel

      Taurozzi, Alberto John, Rüther, P. L., Patramanis, Ioannis, Koenig, Claire, Paterson, Ryan Sinclair, Madupe, Palesa Petunia, Harking, F. S., Welker, Frido, Mackie, Meaghan, Ramos Madrigal, Jazmin, Olsen, Jesper Velgaard & Cappellini, Enrico, 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Nature Protocols. 38 p.

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    16. Published

      Comparing extraction method efficiency for high-throughput palaeoproteomic bone species identification

      Mylopotamitaki, Dorothea, Harking, F. S., Taurozzi, Alberto John, Fagernäs, Zandra Selina, Godinho, R. M., Smith, G. M., Weiss, M., Schüler, T., McPherron, S. P., Meller, H., Cascalheira, J., Bicho, N., Olsen, Jesper Velgaard, Hublin, J. & Welker, Frido, 2023, In: Scientific Reports. 13, 14 p., 18345.

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    17. Published

      Combining ZooMS and zooarchaeology to study Late Pleistocene hominin behaviour at Fumane (Italy)

      Sinet-Mathiot, V., Smith, G. M., Romandini, M., Wilcke, A., Peresani, M., Hublin, J. & Welker, Frido, 2019, In: Scientific Reports. 9, 13 p., 12350.

      Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

    18. Central European woolly mammoth population dynamics: insights from Late Pleistocene mitochondrial genomes

      Yates, J. A. F., Drucker, D. G., Reiter, E., Heumos, S., Welker, Frido, Münzel, S. C., Wojtal, P., Lázničková-Galetová, M., Conard, N. J., Herbig, A., Bocherens, H. & Krause, J., 18 Dec 2017, In: Scientific Reports. 7, 10 p., 17714.

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    19. Published

      Ancient proteins resolve the evolutionary history of Darwin's South American ungulates

      Welker, F., Collins, M. J., Thomas, J. A., Wadsley, M., Brace, S., Cappellini, E., Turvey, S. T., Reguero, M., Gelfo, J. N., Kramarz, A., Burger, J., Thomas-Oates, J., Ashford, D. A., Ashton, P. D., Rowsell, K., Porter, D. M., Kessler, B., Fischer, R., Baessmann, C., Kaspar, S. & 11 others, Olsen, Jesper Velgaard, Kiley, P., Elliott, J. A., Kelstrup, C. D., Mullin, V., Hofreiter, M., Willerslev, Eske, Hublin, J., Orlando, L., Barnes, I. & MacPhee, R. D. E., 4 Jun 2015, In: Nature. 522, 7554, p. 81–84 4 p.

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    20. Published

      Ancient Biomolecules and Evolutionary Inference

      Cappellini, Enrico, Prohaska, Ana, Racimo, Fernando, Welker, Frido, Pedersen, Mikkel Winther, Allentoft, Morten Erik, Damgaard, P. D. B., Gutenbrunner, P., Dunne, J., Hammann, S., Roffet-Salque, M., Ilardo, M., Moreno Mayar, J. Víctor, Wang, Yucheng, Sikora, Martin, Vinner, Lasse, Cox, J., Evershed, R. P. & Willerslev, Eske, 2018, In: Annual Review of Biochemistry. 87, 32 p., 36.

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    21. Analysis of coprolites from the extinct mountain goat Myotragus balearicus

      Welker, Frido, Duijm, E., van der Gaag, K. J., van Geel, B., de Knijff, P., van Leeuwen, J., Mol, D., van der Plicht, J., Raes, N., Reumer, J. & Gravendeel, B., 2014, In: Quaternary Research. 81, 1, p. 106-116

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    22. Published

      A multi-proxy approach to exploring Homo sapiens’ arrival, environments and adaptations in Southeast Asia

      Bacon, A-M., Bourgon, N., Welker, F., Cappellini, E., Fiorillo, D., Tombret, O., Thi Mai Huong, N., Tuan, N. A., Sayavonkhamdy, T., Souksavatdy, V., Sichanthongtip, P., Antoine, P. O., Duringer, P., Ponche, J-L., Westaway, K., Joannes-Boyau, R., Boesch, Q., Suzzoni, E., Frangeul, S., Patole-Edoumba, E. & 5 others, Zachwieja, A., Shackelford, L., Demeter, Fabrice, Hublin, J. & Dufour, É., 2021, In: Scientific Reports. 11, 14 p., 21080.

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    23. Published

      A late Middle Pleistocene Denisovan mandible from the Tibetan Plateau

      Chen, F., Welker, Frido, Shen, C., Bailey, S. E., Bergmann, I., Davis, S., Xia, H., Wang, H., Fischer, R., Freidline, S. E., Yu, T., Skinner, M. M., Stelzer, S., Dong, G., Fu, Q., Dong, G., Wang, J., Zhang, D. & Hublin, J., 2019, In: Nature. 569, p. 409-412

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    24. Published

      A guide to ancient protein studies

      Hendy, J., Welker, Frido, Demarchi, B., Speller, C., Warinner, C. & Collins, Matthew James, 2018, In: Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2, p. 791-799 9 p.

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    25. Published

      A Middle Pleistocene Denisovan molar from the Annamite Chain of northern Laos

      Demeter, F., Zanolli, C., Westaway, K. E., Joannes-Boyau, R., Duringer, P., Morley, M. W., Welker, F., Rüther, P. L., Skinner, M. M., McColl, H., Gaunitz, C., Vinner, L., Dunn, T. E., Olsen, J. V., Sikora, M., Ponche, J-L., Suzzoni, E., Frangeul, S., Boesch, Q., Antoine, P-O. & 20 others, Pan, L., Xing, S., Zhao, J., Bailey, R. M., Boualaphane, S., Sichanthongtip, P., Sihanam, D., Patole-Edoumba, E., Aubaile, F., Crozier, F., Bourgon, N., Zachwieja, A., Luangkhoth, T., Souksavatdy, V., Sayavongkhamdy, T., Cappellini, Enrico, Bacon, A., Hublin, J., Willerslev, Eske & Shackelford, L., 2022, In: Nature Communications. 13, 17 p., 2557.

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