1. Preprint › Research

2. Sequencing single-stranded libraries on the Illumina NextSeq 500 platform.

   Paijmans, J., Baleka, S., Henneberger, K., Taron, U. H., Trinks, A., Westbury, M. V. & Barlow, A., 29 Nov 2017.

   Research output: Working paper › Preprint

3. Commissioned report › Research › Peer-reviewed
4. Published

   Genetic ancestry of introduced populations of sand lizard (Lacerta agilis) in Wales

   Owens, J. B., Wilkinson, J. W., Wüster, W., Barlow, A. & Papadopulos, A. S. T., 11 Oct 2022, Bangor: Natural Resources Wales. 32 p. (NRW Evidence Report; no. 596)

   Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report › peer-review

5. Book › Research › Not peer-reviewed

6. Ancient DNA: methods and protocols. Second Edition.

   Shapiro, B. (ed.), Barlow, A. (ed.), Heintzman, P. D. (ed.), Hofreiter, M. (ed.), Paijmans, J. (ed.) & Soares, A. ER. (ed.), 16 Mar 2019, Humana New York, NY. (Methods in Molecular Biology)

   Research output: Book/Report › Book

7. Poster › Research › Not peer-reviewed
8. Published

   Utilizing Snake Rescue Data For Understanding Snake-Human Conflict

   Kuttalam, S. R., Santra, V., Das, B., Koley, A., Dhara, A., Owens, J. B., Barlow, A. & Malhotra, A., 19 Nov 2022.

   Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster

9. Chapter › Research › Not peer-reviewed

10. Double-stranded library preparation for ancient and other degraded samples

    Henneberger, K., Barlow, A. & Paijmans, J., 16 Mar 2019, Ancient DNA: methods and protocols. Second Edition. Humana New York, NY, p. 65-73

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

11. Article › Research › Peer-reviewed

12. A mitogenomic timetree for Darwin’s enigmatic “transitional” South American mammal, Macrauchenia patachonica.

    Westbury, M. V., Baleka, S., Barlow, A., Hartmann, S., Paijmans, J., Forasiepi, A. M., Kramarz, A., Bond, M., Gelfo, J. N., Gelfo, J. N., Reguero, M. A., Lopez-Mendoza, P., Taglioretti, M., Scaglia, F., Rinderknecht, A., Jones, W., Mena, F., Billet, G., de Muizon, C., Aguilar, J. L., Mac Phee, R. D. E. & Hofreiter, M., 27 Jul 2017, In: Nature Communications. 15951.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

13. Published

    African and Asian leopards are highly differentiated at the genomic level

    Paijmans, J., Barlow, A., Becker, M. S., Cahill, J. A., Fickel, J., Forster, D. W. G., Gries, K., Hartmann, S., Havmoller, R. W., Henneberger, K., Kern, C., Kitchener, A. C., Lorenzen, E. D., Mayer, F., O'Brien, S. J., von Seth, J., Sinding, M-H. S., Spong, G., Uphyrkina, O., Wachter, B., Westbury, M. V., Dalén, L., Bhak, J., Manica, A. & Hofreiter, M., 10 May 2021, In: Current Biology.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

14. Published

    Ancestral mitogenome capture of the Southeast Asian banded linsang.

    Pajimans, J. L. A., Barlow, A., Henneberger, K., Fickel, J., Hofreiter, M. & Foerster, D. W. G., 30 Jun 2020, In: PLoS ONE.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

15. Ancient DNA from giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) of Southwestern China reveals genetic diversity loss during the Holocene.

    Sheng, G., Barlow, A., Cooper, A., Hou, X., Ji, X., Jablonski, N. G., Zhong, B., Liu, H., Flynn, L. J., Yuan, J., Wang, L., Basler, N., Westbury, M. V., Hofreiter, M. & Lai, X., 6 Apr 2018, In: Genes.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

16. Published

    Ancient DNA from the Asiatic Wild Dog (Cuon alpinus) from Europe

    Taron, U. H., Paijmans, J., Barlow, A., Preick, M., Lyengar, A., Dragusin, V., Vasile, S., Marciszak, A., Roblickova, M. & Hofreiter, M., 22 Jan 2021, In: Genes.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

17. Ancient DNA reveals differences in behaviour and sociality between brown bears and extinct cave bears.

    Fortes, G. G., Grandal-d'Anglade, A., Kolbe, B., Fernandes, D., Meleg, I. N., García-Vázquez, A., Pinto-Llona, A. C., Constantin, S., de Torres, T. J., Ortiz, J. E., Frischauf, C., Rabeder, G., Hofreiter, M. & Barlow, A., 1 Oct 2016, In: Molecular Ecology. 25, 9, p. 4906-4918

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

18. Ancient DNA reveals twenty million years of aquatic life in beavers.

    Xenikoudakis, G., Ahmed, M., Harris, J. C., Wadleigh, R., Paijmans, J., Hartmann, S., Barlow, A., Learner, H. & Hofreiter, M., 3 Feb 2020, In: Current Biology. p. 95-111

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

19. Published

    Ancient Mitogenomes Provide New Insights into the Origin and Early Introduction of Chinese Domestic Donkeys

    Wang, L., Sheng, G., Preick, M., Hu, S., Deng, T., Taron, U. H., Barlow, A., Hu, J., Xiao, B., Sun, G., Song, S., Hou, X., Lai, X., Hofreiter, M. & Yuan, J., 15 Oct 2021, In: Frontiers in Genetics.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

20. Published

    Ancient habitat shifts and organismal diversification are decoupled in the African viper genus Bitis (Serpentes: Viperidae)

    Barlow, A., Wüster, W., Kelly, C. M. R., Branch, W., Phelps, T. & Tolley, K. A., 1 Jun 2019, In: Journal of Biogeography. 46, 6, p. 1234-1248 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

21. Published

    Anonymous nuclear markers for SouthEast Asian halfbeak fishes (Dermogenys)

    De Bruyn, M., Grail, W., Barlow, A. & Carvalho, G. R., 1 Sept 2010, In: Conservation Genetics Resources. 2, 1, p. 325-327

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

22. Published

    Anonymous nuclear markers for the African adders (Serpentes: Viperidae: Bitis)

    De Bruyn, M., Wuster, W., Barlow, A. & Grail, W., 1 Dec 2012, In: Conservation Genetics Resources. 4, 4, p. 967-969

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

23. Published

    Bacterial Adaptation to Venom in Snakes and Arachnida

    Esmaeilishirazifard, E., Usher, L., Trim, C., Sangal, V., Tyson, G. F., Barlow, A., Redway, K. F., Taylor, J. D., Kremida-Vlachou, M., Davies, S., Loftus, T. D., Lock, M. M. G., Wright, K., Dalby, A., Snyder, L. A. S., Wüster, W., Trim, S. & Moschos, S. A., 29 Jun 2022, In: Microbiology Spectrum. 10, 3, 16 p., e0240821.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

24. Published

    Cave bears and ancient DNA: a mutually beneficial relationship.

    Barlow, A., Hofreiter, M. & Knapp, M., 20 Nov 2019, In: Berichte der Geologischen Bundesanstalt.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

25. Published

    Coevolution of diet and prey-specific venom activity supports the role of selection in snake venom evolution.

    Barlow, A., Pook, C. E., Harrison, R. A. & Wüster, W., 7 Jul 2009, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

26. Complex admixture preceded and followed the extinction of wisent in the wild.

    Wecek, K., Hartmann, S., Paijmans, J., Taron, U. H., Xenikoudakis, G., Cahill, J. A., Heintzman, P. D., Shapiro, B., Baryshnikov, G., Bunevich, A. N., Crees, J. J., Dobosz, R., Manaserian, N., Okarma, H., Tokarska, M., Turvey, S., Wojcik, J. M., Zyla, W., Szymura, J. M., Hofreiter, M. & Barlow, A., 1 Mar 2017, In: Molecular Biology and Evolution. 34, 7, p. 598-612

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

27. Consensify: A Method for Generating Pseudohaploid Genome Sequences from Palaeogenomic Datasets with Reduced Error Rates.

    Barlow, A., Hartmann, S., Gonzalez, J., Hofreiter, M. & Paijmans, J., 2 Jan 2020, In: Genes. 11, 1

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

28. Published

    Convergent evolution of pain-inducing defensive venom components in spitting cobras

    Kazandjian, T. D., Petras, D., Robinson, S. D., van Thiel, J., Greene, H. W., Arbuckle, K., Barlow, A., Carter, D. A., Wouters, R., Whiteley, G., Wagstaff, S. C., Arias, A. S., Albulescu, L. O., Plettenberg Laing, A., Hall, C., Heap, A., Penrhyn-Lowe, S., McCabe, C. V., Ainsworth, S., da Silva, R. R., Dorrestein, P. C., Richardson, M. K., Gutiérrez, J. M., Calvete, J. J., Harrison, R. A., Vetter, I., Undheim, E. A. B., Wüster, W. & Casewell, N. R., 22 Jan 2021, In: Science. 371, 6527, p. 386-390 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

29. Published

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

    Hempel, E., Westbury, M. V., Grau, J. H., Trinks, A., Paijmans, J., Kliver, S., Barlow, A., Mayer, F., Muller, J., Chen, L., Koepfli, K-P., Hofreiter, M. & Bibi, F., 11 Aug 2021, In: Genes. 12, 8

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

30. Published

    Estimating the dwarfing rate of an extinct Sicilian elephant

    Baleka, S., Herridge, V. L., Catalano, G., Lister, A. M., Dickinson, M. R., Di Patti, C., Barlow, A., Penkman, K., Hofreiter, M. & Paijmans, J., 23 Aug 2021, In: Current Biology.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

31. Evolutionary history and extinction dynamics of extinct sabre- and scimitar-toothed cats based on ancient mitogenomes.

    Paijmans, J., Barnett, R., Gilbert, M. T. P., Zepeda-Mendoza, M. L., Reumer, J. W. F., de Vos, J., Zazula, G., Nagel, D., Baryshnikov, G., Leonard, J. A., Rohland, N., Westbury, M. V., Barlow, A. & Hofreiter, M., 6 Nov 2017, In: Current Biology.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

32. Published

    Extended and continuous decline in effective population size results in low genomic diversity but no signs of inbreeding in the world’s rarest hyena species, the brown hyena.

    Westebury, M. V., Hartmann, S., Barlow, A., Wiesel, I., Leo, V., Welch, R., Parker, D. M., Sicks, F., Ludwig, A. & Hofreiter, M., 1 May 2018, In: Molecular Biology and Evolution. 35, 5, p. 1225–1237

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

33. Published

    First mitogenome phylogeny of the sun bear Helarctos malayanus reveals a deep split between Indochinese and Sundaic lineages

    Kunde, M. N., Barlow, A., Klittich, A. M., Yakupova, A., Fickel, J. & Forster, D. W., 9 Jul 2023, In: Ecology and Evolution. 13, 4

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

34. Heavy reliance on plants for Romanian cave bears evidenced by amino acid nitrogen isotope analysis.

    Naito, Y. I., Meleg, I. N., Robu, M., Vlaicu, M., Drucker, D. G., Wissing, C., Hofreiter, M., Barlow, A. & Bocherens, H., 20 Apr 2020, In: Scientific Reports.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

35. Published

    High-throughput DNA sequencing of museum specimens sheds light on the long-missing species of the Bokermannohyla claresignata group (Anura: Hylidae ...

    Lyra, M., Pinheiro, P. D. P., Lourenco, A. C., Pezzuti, T. L., Baeta, D., Barlow, A., Hofreiter, M., Pombal, J. P., Haddad, C. F. B. & Faivovich, J., 17 Jun 2020, In: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 190, 4

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

36. Historical biogeography of the leopard (Panthera pardus) and its extinct European populations.

    Paijmans, J., Barlow, A., Forster, D. W., Henneberger, K., Meyer, M., Nickel, B., Nagel, D., Havmoller, R. W., Baryshnikov, G., Joger, U., Rosendahl, W. & Hofreiter, M., 23 Oct 2018, In: BMC Evolutionary Biology. 18, 156.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

37. Hyena paleogenomes reveal a complex evolutionary history of cross-continental gene flow between spotted and cave hyena.

    Westbury, M. V., Hartmann, S., Barlow, A., Preick, M., Ridush, B., Nagel, D., Rathgeber, T., Ziegler, R., Baryshnikov, G., Sheng, G., Ludwig, A., Wiesel, I., Dalén, L., Bibi, F., Werdelin, L., Heller, R. & Hofreiter, M., 13 Mar 2020, In: Science Advances. 6, 11

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

38. Published

    Insight into the introduction of domestic cattle and the process of Neolithization to the Spanish region Galicia by genetic evidence

    Gurke, M., Vidal-Gorosquieta, A., Paijmans, J., Wecek, K., Barlow, A., Gonzalez-Fortes, G., Hartmann, S., Grandal-d'Anglade, A. & Hofreiter, M., 28 Apr 2021, In: PLoS ONE.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

39. Published

    Integration of nuclear and mitochondrial gene sequences and morphology reveals unexpected diversity in the forest cobra (Naja melanoleuca) species complex in Central and West Africa (Serpentes: Elapidae).

    Wuster, W., Chirio, L., Trape, J. F., Ineich, I., Jackson, K., Greenbaum, E., Barron, C., Kusamba, C., Nagy, Z. T., Storey, R., Hall, C., Wuster, C., Barlow, A. & Broadley, D. G., 1 Aug 2018, In: Zootaxa. 4455, 1, p. 68-98 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

40. Published

    Is Hybridization a Source of Adaptive Venom Variation in Rattlesnakes? A Test, Using a Crotalus scutulatus x viridis Hybrid Zone in Southwestern New Mexico

    Zancolli, G., Baker, TI. G., Barlow, A., Bradley, R. K., Calvete, J. J., Carter, K. C., de Jager, K., Owens, J. B., Price, J. F., Sanz, L., Scholes-Higham, A., Shier, L., Wood, L., Wuster, C. & Wüster, W., 16 Jun 2016, In: Toxins. 8, 188, p. 1-16 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

41. Published

    Middle Pleistocene genome calibrates a revised evolutionary history of extinct cave bears

    Barlow, A., Paijmans, J., Alberti, F., Gasparyan, B., Bar-Oz, G., Pinhasi, R., Foronova, I., Puzachenko, A. Y., Pacher, M., Dalén, L., Baryshnikov, G. & Hofreiter, M., 26 Apr 2021, In: Current Biology.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

42. Published

    Mitochondrial genomes of Late Pleistocene caballine horses from China belong to a separate clade

    Yuan, J., Barlow, A., Sheng, G., Preick, M., Sun, B., Hou, Y., Chen, S., Taron, U. H., Wang, L., Hu, J., Deng, T., Lai, X. & Hofreiter, M., 15 Dec 2020, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 250

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

43. Published

    Mitogenome phylogeny including data from additional subspecies provides new insights into the historical biogeography of the Eurasian lynx Lynx lynx

    Mengulluoglu, D., Ambarli, H., Barlow, A., Paijmans, J., Sayar, A. O., Emir, H., Kandemir, I., Hofer, H., Fickel, J. & Forster, D. W., 6 Aug 2021, In: Genes. 12, 8

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

44. Molecular identification of Late and terminal Pleistocene Equus ovodovi from northeastern China.

    Yuan, J., Hou, X., Barlow, A., Preick, M., Taron, U. H., Alberti, F., Basler, N., Deng, T., Lai, X., Hofreiter, M. & Sheng, G., 16 May 2019, In: PLoS ONE. 14, 5, e0216883.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

45. Published

    Multi-locus phylogeny and species delimitation of Australo-Papuan blacksnakes(Pseudechis Wagler, 1830: Elapidae: Serpentes)

    Maddock, S., Childerstone, A., Fry, B. G., Williams, D. J., Barlow, A. & Wüster, W., 1 Feb 2017, In: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 107, February, p. 48-55

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

46. Published

    Multilocus phylogeny, species age and biogeography of the Lesser Antillean anoles

    Thorpe, R., Barlow, A., Surget-Groba, Y. & Malhotra, A., Oct 2018, In: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 127, p. 682-695

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

47. Published

    Museum DNA reveals a new, potentially extinct species of rinkhals (Serpentes: Elapidae: Hemachatus) from the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe

    Major, T., Renk, P., Reissig, J., Paijmans, J., Morris, E., Hofreiter, M., Barlow, A., Broadley, D. G. & Wüster, W., 27 Sept 2023, In: PLoS ONE. 18, 9, 19 p., e0291432.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

48. Palaeogenome reveals genetic contribution of extinct giant panda to extant populations.

    Sheng, G., Basler, N., Ji, X., Paijmans, J., Alberti, F., Preick, M., Hartmann, S., Westbury, M. V., Yuan, J., Jablonski, N. G., Xenikoudakis, G., Hou, X., Xiao, B., Liu, J-H., Hofreiter, M., Lai, X. & Barlow, A., 20 May 2019, In: Current Biology. 29, 10, p. 1695-1700

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

49. Partial genomic survival of cave bears in living brown bears.

    Barlow, A., Cahill, J. A., Hartmann, S., Theunert, C., Xenikoudakis, G., Fortes, G. G., Paijmans, J., Rabeder, G., Frischauf, C., Grandal-d'Anglade, A., García-Vázquez, A., Murtskhvaladze, M., Saarma, U., Anijalg, P., Skrbinšek, T., Bertorelle, G., Gasparian, B., Bar-Oz, G., Pinhasi, R., Slatkin, M., Dalén, L., Shapiro, B. & Hofreiter, M., 27 Aug 2018, In: Nature Ecology and Evolution. 2, p. pages 1563–1570

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

50. Published

    Phylogeography of the widespread African puff adder (Bitis arietans) reveals multiple Pleistocene refugia in southern Africa

    Barlow, A., Baker, K., Hendry, C. R., Peppin, L., Phelps, T., Tolley, K. A., Wüster, C. E. & Wuster, W., 1 Feb 2013, In: Molecular Ecology. 22, 4, p. 1134-1157

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

51. Published

    Plio-Pleistocene phylogeography of the Southeast Asian blue panchax killifish, Aplocheilus panchax.

    Beck, S., Carvalho, G., Barlow, A., Ruber, L., Tan, H. H., Nugroho, E., Wowor, D., Nor, S. A. M., Herder, F., Muchlisin, Z. A. & De Bruyn, M., 25 Jul 2017, In: PLoS ONE.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

52. Published

    Recent increase in species-wide diversity after interspecies introgression in the highly endangered Iberian lynx

    Lucena-Perez, M., Paijmans, J., Nocete, F., Nadal, J., Detry, C., Dalén, L., Hofreiter, M., Barlow, A. & Godoy, J., 15 Jan 2024, In: Nature Ecology and Evolution.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

53. Reduction of the contaminant fraction of DNA obtained from an ancient giant panda bone.

    Basler, N., Xenikoudakis, G., Westbury, M. V., Song, L., Sheng, G. & Barlow, A., 20 Dec 2017, In: BMC Research Notes. 10, 754.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

54. Published

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

    Straube, N., Lyra, M., Paijmans, J., Preick, M., Basler, N., Penner, J., Rodel, M-O., Westbury, M. V., Haddad, C. F. B., Barlow, A. & Hofreiter, M., 1 Oct 2021, In: Molecular Ecology Resources.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

55. Published

    Taxonomic Identification of Two Poorly Known Lantern Shark Species Based on Mitochondrial DNA From Wet-Collection Paratypes

    Agne, S., Preick, M., Yang, L., Thiel, R., Weigmann, S., Paijmans, J. L. A., Barlow, A., Hofreiter, M. & Straube, N., 30 Jun 2022, In: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 10, 910009.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

56. Testing of Alignment Parameters for Ancient Samples: Evaluating and optimising mapping parameters for ancient samples using the TAPAS tool.

    Taron, U. H., Lell, M., Barlow, A. & Paijmans, J., 13 Mar 2018, In: Genes. 9, 3, 157.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review