Eske Willerslev

Introductory remarks on publicationslist

Some selected publications:

Moreno-Mayar VJ, Potter BA, Vinner L, Steinrücken M, Rasmussen S, Terhorst J, Kamm JA, Albrechtsen A, Malaspinas A-S, Sikora M, Reuther JD, Irish JD, Malhi RS, Orlando L, Song YS, Nielsen R, Meltzer DJ and Eske Willerslev. Terminal Pleistocene Alaskan genome reveals first founding population of Native Americans. Nature (in press).

Nielsen R, Akey JM, Jakobsson M, Pritchard JK, Tishkoff S, and Willerslev E. Tracing the peopling of the world through genomics. Nature. (2017)

Sikora M, Seguin-Orlando A, Sousa VC, Albrechtsen A, Korneliussen T, Ko A, Rasmussen S, Dupanloup I, Nigst PR, Bosch MD, Renaud G, Allentoft ME, Margaryan A, Vasilyev SV, Veselovskaya E, Borutskaya SB, Deviese T, Comeskey D, Higham T, Manica A, Foley R, Meltzer DJ, Nielsen R, Excoffier L, Lahr MM, Orlando LA, Willerslev E. Ancient genomes show social and reproductive behavior of early Upper Paleolithic foragers. Science, eaao1807. (2017)

Malaspinas A-S, Westaway MC, Mulle C, Sousa VC, Lao O, Alves I, Bergström A, Athanasiadis G, Cheng JY, Crawford JE, Heupink TH, Macholdt E, Peisch S, Rasmussen S, Schiffels S, Subramanian S, Wright JL, Albrechtsen A, Barbieri C, Dupanloup I, Eriksson A, Margaryan A, Moltke I, Pugach I, Korneliussen TS, Levkivskyi IP, Moreno-Mayar JV, Ni S, Racimo F, Sikora M, YaliXue, Aghakhanian FA, Brucato N, Brunak S, Campos PF, Clark W, Ellingvåg S, Fourmile G, Gerbault P, Injie D, Kok G, Leavesley M, Logan B, Lynch A, Matisoo-Smith EA, McAllister PJ, Mentzer AJ, Metspalu M, Migliano AB, Murgha L, Phipps ME, Pomat W, Reynolds D, Ricaut F-X, Siba P, Thomas MG, Wales T, Wall C, Oppenheimer SJ, Tyler-Smith C, Durbin R, Dortch J, Manica A, Schierup MH, Foley R Lahr MM, Bowern C, Wall JD, Mailund T, Stoneking M, Nielsen R, Sandhu MS, Excoffier L, Lambert DM, and Willerslev E. A Genomic History of Aboriginal Australia. Nature (2016)

Pedersen MW, Overballe-Petersen S, Ermini L, Der Sarkissian C, Haile J, Hellstrom M, Spens J, Thomsen, Kristine PF, Bohmann K, Cappellini E, Schnell IB, Wales NA, Carøe C, Campos PF, Schmidt AMZ, Gilbert MTP, Hansen AJH, Orlando L, and Willerslev E (2015) Phil. Trans. B. Ancient and modern environmental DNA 370, Article Number: 20130383

Raghavan M, Steinrücken M, Harris K, Schiffels S, Rasmussen S, DeGiorgio M, Albrechtsen A, Valdiosera C, Ávila-Arcos MC, Malaspinas AS, Eriksson A, Moltke I, Metspalu M, Homburger JR, Wall J, Cornejo OE, Moreno-Mayar JV, Korneliussen TS, Pierre T, Rasmussen M, Campos PF, Damgaard PB, Allentoft ME, Lindo J, Metspalu E, Rodríguez-Varela R, Mansilla J, Henrickson C, Seguin-Orlando A, Malmström H, Stafford T Jr, Shringarpure SS, Moreno-Estrada A, Karmin M, Tambets K, Bergström A, Xue Y, Warmuth V, Friend AD, Singarayer J, Valdes P, Balloux F, Leboreiro I, Vera JL, Rangel-Villalobos H, Pettener D, Luiselli D, Davis LG, Heyer E, Zollikofer CP, Ponce de León MS, Smith CI, Grimes V, Pike KA, Deal M, Fuller BT, Arriaza B, Standen V, Luz MF, Ricaut F, Guidon N, Osipova L, Voevoda MI, Posukh OL, Balanovsky O, Lavryashina M, Bogunov Y, Khusnutdinova E, Gubina M, Balanovska E, Fedorova S, Litvinov S, Malyarchuk B, Derenko M, Mosher MJ, Archer D, Cybulski J, Petzelt B, Mitchell J, Worl R, Norman PJ, Parham P, Kemp BM, Kivisild T, Tyler-Smith C, Sandhu MS, Crawford M, Villems R, Smith DG, Waters MR, Goebel T, Johnson JR, Malhi RS, Jakobsson M, Meltzer DJ, Manica A, Durbin R, Bustamante CD, Song YS, Nielsen R, Willerslev E. Genomic evidence for the Pleistocene and recent population history of Native Americans (2015) Science. Jul 21. pii: aab3884.

Rasmussen M, Sikora M, Albrechtsen A, Korneliussen TS, Moreno-Mayar JV, Poznik GD, Zollikofer CPE, Ponce de León MS, Allentoft ME, Moltke I, Jónsson H, Valdiosera C, Malhi RS, Orlando L, Bustamante CD, Stafford Jr T, Meltzer DJ, Nielsen R, and Willerslev E (2015) The ancestry and affiliations of Kennewick Man. Nature doi:10.1038/nature14625

Rasmussen S, Allentoft ME, Nielsen HB, Brunak S, Avetisyan P, Epimakhov A, Gnuni A, Kriiska A, Lasak I, Metspalu M, Moiseyev V, Gromov A, Pokutta D, Saag L, Varul L, Yepiskoposyan L, Sicheritz-Pontén T, Foley RA, Lahr MM, Nielsen R, Kristiansen K., Willerslev E. (2015) Early Divergent strains of Yersinia pestis in Eurasia five thousands years ago. Cell, 163, 571–582

Allentoft ME, Sikora M, Sjögren K-G, Rasmussen S, Rasmussen M, Stenderup J, Damgaard PB, Schroeder H, Ahlström T, Vinner L, Malaspinas A-S, Margaryan A, Higham T, Chivall D, Lynnerup N, Harvig L, Baron J, Casa PD, Dąbrowski P, Duffy PR, Ebel AV, Epimakhov A, Frei K, Furmanek M, Gralak T, Gromov A, Gronkiewicz S, Grupe G, Hajdu T, Jarysz R, Khartanovich V, Khokhlov A, Kiss V, Kolář J, Kriiska A, Lasak I, Longhi C, McGlynn G, Merkevicius A, Merkyte I, Metspalu M, Mkrtchyan R, Moiseyev V, Paja L, Pálfi G, Pokutta D, Pospieszny L, Price TD, Saag L, Sablin M, Shishlina N, Smrčka VC, Soenov VI, Szeverényi V, Tóth G, Trifanova SV, Varul L, Vicze M, Yepiskoposyan L, Zhitenev V, Orlando L, Sicheritz-Pontén T, Brunak S, Nielsen R, Kristiansen K and Eske Willerslev (2015). Population genomics of Bronze Age Eurasia. Nature 522, 167–172

Seguin-Orlando A, Korneliussen TS, Sikora M, Malaspinas AS, Manica A, Moltke I, Albrechtsen A, Ko A, Margaryan A, Moiseyev V, Goebel T, Westaway M, Lambert D, Khartanovich V, Wall JD, Nigst PR, Foley RA, Lahr MM, Nielsen R, Orlando L, and Willerslev E (2014) Genomic structure in Europeans dating back at least 36,200 years. Science. Nov 6. pii: aaa0114.

Raghavan M, DeGiorgio M, Albrechtsen A, Moltke I, Skoglund P, Korneliussen TS, Grønnow B, Appelt M, Gulløv HC, Friesen TM, Fitzhugh W, Malmström H, Rasmussen S, Olsen J, Melchior L, Fuller BT, Fahrni SM, Stafford Jr. T, Grimes V, Renouf MAP, Cybulski J, Lynnerup N, Lahr MM, Britton K, Knecht R, Arneborg J, Metspalu M, Cornejo OE, Malaspinas A-S, Wang Y, Rasmussen M, Raghavan V, Hansen TVO, Khusnutdinova E, Pierre T, Dneprovsky K, Andreasen C, Lange H, Hayes MG, Coltrain J, Spitsyn VA, Götherström A, Orlando L, Kivisild T, Villems R, Crawford MH, Nielsen FC, Dissing J, Heinemeier J, Meldgaard M, Bustamante C, O’Rourke DH, Jakobsson M, Gilbert MTP, Nielsen R, and Willerslev E (2014) The Genetic Prehistory of the New World Arctic Science 345 6200-6204.

Rasmussen. M, Anzick SL, Waters MR, Skoglund P, DeGiorgio M, Stafford Jr. TW, Rasmussen S, Moltke I, Albrechtsen A, Doyle SM, Poznik GD, Gudmundsdottir V, Yadav R, Malaspinas A-S, White SS, Allentoft ME, Cornejo OE, Tambets K, Eriksson A, Heintzman PD, Karmin M, Korneliussen TS, Meltzer DJ, Pierre TL, Stenderup J, Saag L, Warmuth V, Lopes MC, Malhi RS, Brunak S, Sicheritz-Ponten T, Barnes I, Collins M, Orlando L, Balloux F, Manica A, Gupta R, Metspalu M, Bustamante CD, Jakobsson M, Nielsen R, and Willerslev E (2014)  The genome of a late Pleistocene human from a Clovis burial site in western Montana Nature 506, 225-229.

Willerslev E, Davison J, Moora M, Zobel M, Coissac E, Edwards ME, Lorenzen ED, Vestergård M, Gussarova G, Haile H, Craine J, Bergmann G, Gielly L, Boessenkool S, Epp LS, Pearman PB, Cheddadi R, Murray D, Bråthen KA Yoccoz N, Binney H, Cruaud C, Wincker P, Goslar T, Alsos IG, Bellemain E, Brysting AK, Elven R, Sønstebø JH, Murton J, Sher A, Rasmussen M, Rønn R, Mourier T, Cooper A, Austin J, Möller P, Froese D, Zazula G, Pompanon F, Rioux D, Niderkorn V, Tikhonov A, Savvinov G, Roberts RG, MacPhee RDE, Gilbert MTP, Kjær K, Orlando L, Brochmann C, Taberlet P. (2014)  Fifty thousand years of arctic vegetation and megafaunal diet Nature 506, 47-51.

Raghavan M, Skoglund P, Graf K, Metspalu M, Albrechtsen A, Moltke I, Rasmussen S, Stafford TW, Orlando O, Metspalu E, Karmin M, Tambets K, Rootsi S, Mägi R, Campos PF, Balanovska E, Balanovsky O, Khusnutdinova E, Litvinov S, Osipova LP, Fedorova SA, Voevoda MI, DeGiorgio M, Sicheritz-Ponten T, Brunak S, Demeshchenko S, Kivisild T, Villems  R,Nielsen R, Jakobsson M, and Willerslev E (2014) Upper Palaeolithic Siberian genome reveals dual ancestry of Native Americans Nature 505, 87-91.

Overballe-Petersen S, Harms K, Orlando LAA, Mayar JVM, Rasmussen S, Dahl TW, Rosing MT, Poole AM, Sicheritz-Ponten T, Brunak B, Inselmann S, de Vries J, Wackernagel W, Pybus OG, Nielsen R, Johnsen PJ, Nielsen KM, and Eske Willerslev (2013) Bacterial Natural Transformation by Highly Fragmented and Damaged DNA Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 110, 19860-19865.

Orlando L, Ginolhac A, Zhang G, Froese D, Albrechtsen A, Stiller M, Schubert M, Cappellini E, Petersen B, Moltke I, Johnson PLF, Fumagalli M, Vilstrup JT, Raghavan M, Korneliussen T, Malaspinas A-S, Vogt S, Szklarczyk D, Kelstrup CD, Vinther J, Dolocan A, Stenderup J, Missael A, Velazquez A, Cahill J, Rasmussen M, Wang X, Min J, Zazula G, Seguin-Orlando A, Mortensen C, Magnussen K, Thompson JF, Weinstock J, Gregersen K, Røed KH, Eisenmann V, Rubin C-J, Miller DC, Antczak D, Bertelsen MF, Brunak S, Khaled AL-R, Ryder O, Andersson L, Mundy J, Krogh A, Gilbert MTP, Kjær K, Sicheritz-Ponten T, Jensen LJ, Olsen JV, Hofreiter M, Nielsen R, Shapiro B, Jun W, and Willerslev E. (2013) Recalibrating Equus evolution using the genome sequence of an early Middle Pleistocene horse. Nature 499, 74-77 

Kjær K, Khan SA, Korsgaard NJ, Wahr J, Bamber JL, Hurkmans R, van den Broeke M, Timm LH, Kjeldsen KK, Bjørk AA, Larsen NK, Jørgensen LT, Færch-Jensen A, and Willerslev E. (2012). Aerial Photographs Reveal Late–20th-Century Dynamic Ice Loss in Northwestern Greenland Science 337, 569-573.

Jenkins DJ, Davis LG, Stafford Jr. T, Campos PF, Hockett B, Jones GT, Cummings LS, Yost C, Connolly TJ, Yohe II RM, Gibbons SC, Raghavan M, Rasmussen M, Paijmans JLA, Hofreiter M, Kemp BM, Barta JL, Monroe C, Gilbert MTP, and Willerslev E. (2012) Clovis Age Western Stemmed Projectile Points and Human Coprolites at the Paisley Caves Science 337, 223-228.

Parducci L, Jørgensen T, Tollefsrud MM, Elverland E, Alm T, Fontana SL, Bennett KD, Haile JH, Matetovici I, Suyama Y, Edwards ME, Andersen K, Rasmussen M, Boessenkool S, Coissac E, Christian Brochmann, Pierre Taberlet, Michael Houmark-Nielsen, Nicolaj Krog Larsen, Orlando L, Gilbert MTP, Kjær KH, Alsos IG, and Willerslev E. (2012) Glacial Survival of Boreal Trees in Northern Scandinavia. Science 335, 1083-1086

Waters MR, Stafford TW Jr, McDonald HG, Gustafson C, Rasmussen M, Cappellini E, Olsen JV, Szklarczyk D, Jensen LJ, Gilbert MTP, and Willerslev E. (2011) Pre-Clovis Mastodon Hunting 13,800 Years Ago at the Manis Site, Washington. Science 334, 351-353 

Lorenzen ED, Nogués-Bravo D, Orlando L, Weinstock J, Binladen J, Marske KA, Ugan A, Borregaard MK, Gilbert MT, Nielsen R, Ho SY, Goebel T, Graf KE, Byers D, Stenderup JT, Rasmussen M, Campos PF, Leonard JA, Koepfli KP, Froese D, Zazula G, Stafford TW Jr, Aaris-Sørensen K, Batra P, Haywood AM, Singarayer JS, Valdes PJ, Boeskorov G, Burns JA, Davydov SP, Haile J, Jenkins DL, Kosintsev P, Kuznetsova T, Lai X, Martin LD, McDonald HG, Mol D, Meldgaard M, Munch K, Stephan E, Sablin M, Sommer RS, Sipko T, Scott E, Suchard MA, Tikhonov A, Willerslev R, Wayne RK, Cooper A, Hofreiter M, Sher A, Shapiro B, Rahbek C, Willerslev E. 2011: Species-specific responses of Late Quaternary magefauna to climate and humans. Nature 479,359-64.

Funder S, Gosse H, Jepsen, Kaas E, Kjær KJ, Koesgaard NJ, Larsen NK, Linderson H, Lyså A, Möller P, Olsen J, and Willerslev E.  (2011) A 10,000-year record of Arctic Ocean sea ice variability – View from the beach Science 333, 747-750. 

Rasmussen M, Guo X, Wang Y, Lohmueller KE, Rasmussen S, Albrechtsen A, Skotte L, Lindgreen S, Metspalu M, Jombart T, Kivisild T, Zhai W, Eriksson A, Manica A, Orlando L, De La Vega F, Tridico S, Metspalu E, Nielsen K, Ávila-Arcos MC, Moreno-Mayar JV, Muller C, Dortch J, Gilbert MTP, Lund O, Wesolowska A, Karmin M, Weiner LA, Wang B, Li J, Tai S, Xiao F, Hanihara T, van Driem G, Jha AR, Ricaut F-X, de Knijff P, Migliano AB, Gallego-Romero I, Kristiansen K, Lambert DM, Brunak S, Forster P, Brinkmann B, Nehlich O, Bunce M, Richards M, Gupta R, Bustamante C, Krogh A, Foley RA, Lahr MM, Balloux F, Sicheritz-Pontén T, Villems R, Nielsen R, Jun W, Willerslev E. 2012. An Aboriginal Australian genome reveals separate human dispersals into Asia. Science 334,94-98.

Rasmussen M, Li Y, Lindgreen S, JS Pedersen, Albrechtsen A, Moltke I, Metspalu M, Metspalu E, Kivisild T, Gupta R, Bertalan M, Nielsen K, Gilbert MTP, Wang Y, Raghavan M, Campos PF, Kamp HM, Wilson AS, Gledhill A, Tridico S, Bunce M, Lorenzen ED, Binladen J, Guo X, Zhao J, Zhang X, Zhang H, Li Z, Chen M, Orlando L, Kristiansen K, Bak M, Tommerup N, Bendixen C, Pierre T, Grønnow B, Meldgaard M, Andreasen C, Fedorova SA, Osipova LP, Higham T, Ramsey CB, Hansen vO, Nielsen FC, Crawford MH, Brunak S, Sicheritz-Pontén T, Villems R, Nielsen R, Krogh A, Wang J, and Willerslev E. (2010) Ancient genome sequence of an extinct palaeo-eskimo. Nature 463, 757–762.

Gilbert MT, Kivisild T, Grønnow B, Andersen PK, Metspalu E, Reidla M, Tamm E, Axelsson E, Götherström A, Campos PF, Rasmussen M, Metspalu M, Higham TF, Schwenninger JL, Nathan R, De Hoog CJ, Koch A, Møller LN, Andreasen C, Meldgaard M, Villems R, Bendixen C, Willerslev E. (2008) Paleo-Eskimo mtDNA Genome Reveals Matrilineal Discontinuity in Greenland. Science 320, 1787-1789.

Johnson SS, Hebsgaard MB, Christensen T, Mastepanov M, Nielsen R, Munch K, Brand TB. Gilbert MTP, Zuber MT, Bunce M, Rønn R, Gilichinsky D, Froese D, and Willerslev E. (2007) Ancient bacteria show evidence of DNA repair. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 104, 14401-14405 

Willerslev E, Cappellini E, Boomsma W, Nielsen R, Hebsgaard MB, Brand TB, Hofreiter M, Bunce M, Poinar HN, Dahl-Jensen D, Johnsen S, Steffensen JP, Bennike O, Funder S, Schwenninger J-L, Nathan R, Armitage S, Barker J, Sharp M, Penkman KEH, Haile J, Taberlet P, MTP Gilbert, Casoli A, Campani E, Collins MJ. (2007) Ancient Biomolecules from Deep Ice Cores Reveal a Forested Southern Greenland. Science 317, 111-114

Willerslev E, Hansen AJ, Røn R, Brand TB, Wiuf C, Barnes I, Gilichinsky DA, Mitchell D, Cooper A. (2004) Long-term survival of bacterial DNA. Curr. Biol. 14, R9-R10

Willerslev E, and Cooper A. (2005) Ancient DNA. Proc. Royal Soc. Lon. B 272, 3-16

Glenner H, Hansen AJ, Sørensen MV, Ronquist F, Huelsenbeck JP, Willerslev E. (2004) Bayesian Inference of the metazoan phylogeny: A combined molecular and morphological approach. Curr. Biol. 14, 1644-1649

Willerslev E, Hansen AJ, Brand T, Binladen J, Gilbert TMP, Shapiro BA, Wiuf C, Gilichinsky DA, Cooper A. (2003) Diverse plant and animal DNA from Holocene and Pleistocene sedimentary records Science 300, 791-795

Willerslev E, Hansen AJ, Nielsen KK, Adsersen H (2002) Number of endemic and native plant species in the Galápagos Archipelago in relation to geographical parameters. Ecography 25, 109-119

Willerslev E, Hansen AJ, Christensen B, Steffensen JP, Arctander P. (1999) Diversity of Holocene life-forms in fossil glacier ice. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 96, 8017-8021