Morten Erik Allentoft

Morten Erik Allentoft

Associate Professor


  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. Published

    Selection in Europeans on fatty acid desaturases associated with dietary changes

    Buckley, M. T., Racimo, Fernando, Allentoft, Morten Erik, Jensen, M. K., Jonsson, Anna Elisabet, Huang, H., Hormozdiari, F., Sikora, Martin, Marnetto, D., Eskin, E., Jørgensen, M. E., Grarup, Niels, Pedersen, Oluf Borbye, Hansen, Torben, Kraft, P., Willerslev, Eske & Nielsen, Rasmus, Jun 2017, In: Molecular Biology and Evolution. 34, 6, p. 1307-1318 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  12. Published

    Spider webs capture environmental DNA from terrestrial vertebrates

    Newton, J. P., Nevill, P., Bateman, P. W., Campbell, M. A. & Allentoft, Morten Erik, 2024, In: iScience. 27, 2, 12 p., 108904.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

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  14. Published

    The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe

    Olalde, I., Brace, S., Allentoft, M. E., Armit, I., Kristiansen, K., Booth, T., Rohland, N., Mallick, S., Szécsényi-nagy, A., Mittnik, A., Altena, E., Lipson, M., Lazaridis, I., Harper, T. K., Patterson, N., Broomandkhoshbacht, N., Diekmann, Y., Faltyskova, Z., Fernandes, D., Ferry, M. & 124 others, Harney, E., De Knijff, P., Michel, M., Oppenheimer, J., Stewardson, K., Barclay, A., Alt, K. W., Liesau, C., Ríos, P., Blasco, C., Miguel, J. V., García, R. M., Fernández, A. A., Bánffy, E., Bernabò-brea, M., Billoin, D., Bonsall, C., Bonsall, L., Allen, T., Büster, L., Carver, S., Navarro, L. C., Craig, O. E., Cook, G. T., Cunliffe, B., Denaire, A., Dinwiddy, K. E., Dodwell, N., Ernée, M., Evans, C., Kuchařík, M., Farré, J. F., Fowler, C., Gazenbeek, M., Pena, R. G., Haber-uriarte, M., Haduch, E., Hey, G., Jowett, N., Knowles, T., Massy, K., Pfrengle, S., Lefranc, P., Lemercier, O., Lefebvre, A., Martínez, C. H., Olmo, V. G., Ramírez, A. B., Maurandi, J. L., Majó, T., Mckinley, J. I., Mcsweeney, K., Mende, B. G., Mod, A., Kulcsár, G., Kiss, V., Czene, A., Patay, R., Endrődi, A., Köhler, K., Hajdu, T., Szeniczey, T., Dani, J., Bernert, Z., Hoole, M., Cheronet, O., Keating, D., Velemínský, P., Dobeš, M., Candilio, F., Brown, F., Fernández, R. F., Herrero-corral, A., Tusa, S., Carnieri, E., Lentini, L., Valenti, A., Zanini, A., Waddington, C., Delibes, G., Guerra-doce, E., Neil, B., Brittain, M., Luke, M., Mortimer, R., Desideri, J., Besse, M., Brücken, G., Furmanek, M., Hałuszko, A., Mackiewicz, M., Rapiński, A., Leach, S., Soriano, I., Lillios, K. T., Cardoso, J. L., Pearson, M. P., Włodarczak, P., Price, T. D., Prieto, P., Rey, P., Risch, R., Rojo Guerra, M. A., Schmitt, A., Serralongue, J., Silva, A. M., Smrčka, V., Vergnaud, L., Zilhão, J., Caramelli, D., Higham, T., Thomas, M. G., Kennett, D. J., Fokkens, H., Heyd, V., Sheridan, A., Sjögren, K., Stockhammer, P. W., Krause, J., Pinhasi, R., Haak, W., Barnes, I., Lalueza-fox, C. & Reich, D., 2018, In: Nature. 555, 7695, p. 190-196

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  15. Published

    The Farm beneath the Sand: An Archaeological Case Study on Ancient "Dirt" DNA

    Hebsgaard, M. B., Gilbert, M Thomas P, Pedersen, J. A., Heyn, P., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Bunce, M., Munch, K., Schweger, C. & Willerslev, Eske, 2009, In: Antiquity. 83, p. 430-444 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  16. Published

    The Selection Landscape and Genetic Legacy of Ancient Eurasians

    Irving-Pease, E., Refoyo Martínez, A., Ingason, A., Pearson, A., Fischer, A., Barrie, W., Sjögren, K-G., Halgren, A. S., Macleod, R., Demeter, F., Henriksen, R. H. A., Vimala, T., McColl, H., Vaughn, A., Stern, A. J., Speidel, L., Scorrano, G., Ramsøe, A., Schork, A. J., Rosengren, A. & 12 others, Zhao, Lei, Kristiansen, K., Sudmant, P. H., Lawson, D. J., Durbin, R., Korneliussen, Thorfinn Sand, Werge, Thomas, Allentoft, Morten Erik, Sikora, Martin, Nielsen, Rasmus, Racimo, Fernando & Willerslev, Eske, 2022, bioRxiv, 26 p.

    Research output: Working paperPreprintResearch

  17. Published

    The ancestry and affiliations of Kennewick Man

    Rasmussen, M., Sikora, Martin, Albrechtsen, Anders, Korneliussen, Thorfinn Sand, Moreno Mayar, J. Víctor, Poznik, G. D., Zollikofer, C. P. E., Ponce de León, M. S., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Moltke, Ida, Jónsson, H., Valdiosera Morales, C. E., Malhi, R. S., Orlando, L. A. A., Bustamante, C. D., Stafford jr., T., Meltzer, D. J., Nielsen, Rasmus & Willerslev, Eske, 2015, In: Nature. 523, 7561, p. 455-458 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLetterResearchpeer-review

  18. Published

    The first horse herders and the impact of early Bronze Age steppe expansions into Asia

    Damgaard, P. D. B., Martiniano, R., Kamm, J., Moreno Mayar, J. V., Kroonen, G., Peyrot, M., Barjamovic, G., Rasmussen, S., Zacho, C. G., Baimukhanov, N., Zaibert, V., Merz, V., Biddanda, A., Merz, I., Loman, V., Evdokimov, V., Usmanova, E., Hemphill, B., Seguin-Orlando, A., Yediay, F. E. & 31 others, Ullah, I., Sjögren, K., Iversen, K. H., Choin, J., jxb425, jxb425, Ilardo, M., Schroeder, Hannes, Moiseyev, V., Gromov, A., Polyakov, A., Omura, S., Senyurt, S. Y., Orlando, L. A. A., Ahmad, H., McKenzie, C., Margaryan, Ashot, Hameed, A., Samad, A., Gul, N., Khokhar, M. H., Goriunova, O. I., Bazaliiskii, V. I., Novembre, J., Weber, A. W., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Nielsen, R., Kristiansen, K., Sikora, Martin, Outram, A. K., Durbin, R. & Willerslev, Eske, 2018, In: Science. 360, 6396, 11 p., 1422.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  19. Published

    The genome of a Late Pleistocene human from a Clovis burial site in western Montana

    Rasmussen, M., Anzick, S. L., Waters, M. R., Skoglund, P., DeGiorgio, M., Stafford jr., T., Rasmussen, S., Moltke, I., Albrechtsen, A., Doyle, S. M., Poznik, G. D., Gudmundsdottir, V., Yadav, R., Malaspinas, A. S., White, S. S., Allentoft, M. E., Cornejo, O. E., Tambets, K., Eriksson, A., Heintzman, P. D. & 22 others, Karmin, M., Korneliussen, Thorfinn Sand, Meltzer, D. J., Pierre, T. L., Stenderup, Jesper Tandberg, Saag, L., Warmuth, V. M., Lopes, M. C., Malhi, R. S., Brunak, S., Sicheritz-Pontén, T., Barnes, I., Collins, M., Orlando, L. A. A., Balloux, F., Manica, A., Gupta, R., Metspalu, M., Bustamante, C. D., Jakobsson, M., Nielsen, R. & Willerslev, Eske, 2014, In: Nature. 506, 7487, p. 225-229 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  20. Published

    The half-life of DNA in bone: measuring decay kinetics in 158 dated fossils

    Allentoft, Morten Erik, Collins, M., Harker, D., Haile, J., Oskam, C. L., Hale, M. L., Campos, P., Samaniego Castruita, J. A., Gilbert, M Thomas P, Willerslev, Eske, Zhang, G., Scofield, R. P., Holdaway, R. N. & Bunce, M., 2012, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 279, 1748, p. 4724-4733 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  21. Published

    The origins and spread of domestic horses from the Western Eurasian steppes

    Librado, P., Khan, N., Fages, A., Kusliy, M. A., Suchan, T., Tonasso-Calvière, L., Schiavinato, S., Alioglu, D., Fromentier, A., Perdereau, A., Aury, J-M., Gaunitz, C., Chauvey, L., Seguin-Orlando, A., Der Sarkissian, C., Southon, J., Shapiro, B., Tishkin, A. A., Kovalev, A. A., Alquraishi, S. & 143 others, Alfarhan, A. H., Al-Rasheid, K. A. S., Seregély, T., Klassen, L., Iversen, Rune, Bignon-Lau, O., Bodu, P., Olive, M., Castel, J., Boudadi-Maligne, M., Alvarez, N., Germonpré, M., Moskal-del Hoyo, M., Wilczyński, J., Pospuła, S., Lasota-Kuś, A., Tunia, K., Nowak, M., Rannamäe, E., Saarma, U., Boeskorov, G., Lōugas, L., Kyselý, R., Peške, L., Bălășescu, A., Dumitrașcu, V., Dobrescu, R., Gerber, D., Kiss, V., Szécsényi-Nagy, A., Mende, B. G., Gallina, Z., Somogyi, K., Kulcsár, G., Gál, E., Bendrey, R., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Sirbu, G., Dergachev, V., Shephard, H., Tomadini, N., Grouard, S., Kasparov, A., Basilyan, A. E., Anisimov, M. A., Nikolskiy, P. A., Pavlova, E. Y., Pitulko, V., Brem, G., Wallner, B., Schwall, C., Keller, M., Kitagawa, K., Bessudnov, A. N., Bessudnov, A., Taylor, W., Magail, J., Gantulga, J., Bayarsaikhan, J., Erdenebaatar, D., Tabaldiev, K., Mijiddorj, E., Boldgiv, B., Tsagaan, T., Pruvost, M., Olsen, S., Makarewicz, C. A., Valenzuela Lamas, S., Albizuri Canadell, S., Nieto Espinet, A., Iborra, M. P., Lira Garrido, J., Rodríguez González, E., Celestino, S., Olària, C., Arsuaga, J. L., Kotova, N., Pryor, A., Crabtree, P., Zhumatayev, R., Toleubaev, A., Morgunova, N. L., Kuznetsova, T., Lordkipanize, D., Marzullo, M., Prato, O., Bagnasco Gianni, G., Tecchiati, U., Clavel, B., Lepetz, S., Davoudi, H., Mashkour, M., Berezina, N. Y., Stockhammer, P. W., Krause, J., Haak, W., Morales-Muñiz, A., Benecke, N., Hofreiter, M., Ludwig, A., Graphodatsky, A. S., Peters, J., Kiryushin, K. Y., Iderkhangai, T., Bokovenko, N. A., Vasiliev, S. K., Seregin, N. N., Chugunov, K. V., Plasteeva, N. A., Baryshnikov, G. F., Petrova, E., Sablin, M., Ananyevskaya, E., Logvin, A., Shevnina, I., Logvin, V., Kalieva, S., Loman, V., Kukushkin, I., Merz, I., Merz, V., Sakenov, S., Varfolomeyev, V., Usmanova, E., Zaibert, V., Arbuckle, B., Belinskiy, A. B., Kalmykov, A., Reinhold, S., Hansen, S., Yudin, A. I., Vybornov, A. A., Epimakhov, A., Berezina, N. S., Roslyakova, N., Kosintsev, P. A., Kuznetsov, P. F., Anthony, D., Kroonen, Guus, Kristiansen, K., Wincker, P., Outram, A. & Orlando, L., 2021, In: Nature. 598, 7882, p. 634-640

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  22. Published

    The population history of northeastern Siberia since the Pleistocene

    Sikora, M., Pitulko, V. V., Sousa, V. C., Allentoft, M. E., Vinner, L., Rasmussen, S., Margaryan, A., Damgaard, P. D. B., de la Fuente Castro, C., Renaud, G., Yang, M. A., Fu, Q., Dupanloup, I., Giampoudakis, K., Nogues, D. B., Rahbek, C., Kroonen, G., Peyrot, M., McColl, H., Vasilyev, S. V. & 27 others, Veselovskaya, E., Gerasimova, M., Pavlova, E. Y., Chasnyk, V. G., Nikolskiy, P. A., Gromov, A. V., Khartanovich, V. I., Moiseyev, V., Grebenyuk, P. S., Fedorchenko, A. Y., Lebedintsev, A. I., Slobodin, S. B., Malyarchuk, B. A., Martiniano, R., Meldgaard, Morten, Arppe, L., Palo, J. U., Sundell, T., Mannermaa, K., Putkonen, M., Alexandersen, V., Primeau, C., Baimukhanov, N., Malhi, R. S., Sjögren, K. G., Nielsen, Rasmus & Willerslev, Eske, 2019, In: Nature. 570, p. 182–188

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  23. Published

    The prehistoric peopling of Southeast Asia

    McColl, H., Racimo, F., Vinner, L., Demeter, F. P. M., Gakuhari, T., Moreno Mayar, J. V., van Driem, G., Gram Wilken, U., Seguin-Orlando, A., de la Fuente Castro, C. P., Wasef, S., Shoocongdej, R., Souksavatdy, V., Sayavongkhamdy, T., Saidin, M. M., Allentoft, M. E., Sato, T., Malaspinas, A-S., Aghakhanian, F. A., Korneliussen, T. S. & 46 others, Prohaska, Ana, Margaryan, Ashot, Damgaard, P. D. B., Kaewsutthi, S., Lertrit, P., Nguyen, T. M. H., Hung, H., Minh Tran, T., Nghia Truong, H., Nguyen, G. H., Shahidan, S., Wiradnyana, K., Matsumae, H., Shigehara, N., Yoneda, M., Ishida, H., Masuyama, T., Yamada, Y., Tajima, A., Shibata, H., Toyoda, A., Hanihara, T., Nakagome, S., Deviese, T., Bacon, A., Duringer, P., Ponche, J., Shackelford, L., Patole-Edoumba, E., Nguyen, A. T., Bellina-Pryce, B., Galipaud, J., Kinaston, R., Buckley, H., Pottier, C., Rasmussen, Simon, Higham, T., Foley, R. A., Lahr, M. M., Orlando, L., Sikora, Martin, Phipps, M. E., Oota, H., Higham, C., Lambert, D. M. & Willerslev, Eske, 6 Jul 2018, In: Science (New York, N.Y.). 361, 6397, p. 88-92 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  24. Published

    The rise of genomics in snake venom research: recent advances and future perspectives

    Rao, W. Q., Kalogeropoulos, K., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Gopalakrishnan, Shyam, Zhao, W., Workman, C. T., Knudsen, C., Jiménez-Mena, B., Seneci, L., Mousavi-Derazmahalleh, M., Jenkins, T. P., Rivera-de-Torre, E., Liu, S. Q. & Laustsen, A. H., 2022, In: GigaScience. 11, 16 p., giac024.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  25. Published

    Threatened North African seagrass meadows have supported green turtle populations for millennia

    de Kock, W., Mackie, Meaghan, Ramsøe, Max Emil Ermter, Allentoft, Morten Erik, Broderick, A. C., Haywood, J. C., Godley, B. J., Snape, R. T. E., Bradshaw, P. J., Genz, H., von Tersch, M., Dee, M. W., Palsbøll, P. J., Alexander, M., Taurozzi, Alberto John & Çakırlar, C., 2023, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 120, 30, 8 p., e2220747120.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

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