Paleogenomics: Genome-Scale Analysis of Ancient DNA

Preface. 

PART I - Perspectives and Applications

1 Paleogenomics: perspectives for population genomics and evolutionary biology       

Charlotte Lindqvist, University at Buffalo, NY

2 DNA degradation and applications - a current overview        

Nadin Rohland, Harvard Medical School, MA

3 Epigenetic patterns in paleogenomes            

Jakob Skou Pedersen, Aarhus University, Denmark

Thomas Gilbert, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

PART II - Ancient Metagenomics and Pathogen Evolution

5 Ancient viruses (HIV)            

Hendrik Poinar, McMaster University, Canada

6 Ancient pathogen genomics              

Anne Stone, Arizona State University, AZ

7 Metagenomic reconstruction of ancient environments         

Eske Willerslev, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

8 Ancient peat sediments and reconstruction of floras              

PART III - Plant and Animal Paleogenomics

9 Archaeobotany and crop adaptation              

Robin Allaby, University of Warwick, UK

10 Reconstructing ancestral plant genomes      

David Sankorff, University of Ottawa, Canada; Victor Albert, University at Buffalo, NY

11 Extinction of ice age mammals          

Love Dalen, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Sweden

Greger Larson, University of Oxford, UK

13 Horse evolution       

Ludovic Orlando, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Charlotte Lindqvist, University at Buffalo, NY

PART IV - Primate and Human Evolution

15 Primate paleogenomics       

George Perry, Penn State University, PA

16 Genomes of extinct hominins           

Svante Paabo, Marx Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

17 Structural variants in ancient genomes          

Omer Gokcumen, University at Buffalo, NY

Vincent Lynch, University of Chicago, IL; Stephan Schuster, Nanyang University, Singapore

Rasmus Nielsen, University of Berkeley, CA

Index.