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Publications: Dr Laurent Frantz

Sinding MHS, Ciucani MM, Ramos-Madrigal J, Carmagnini A, Rasmussen JA, Feng S, Chen G, Vieira FG et al. ( 2021 ) . Kouprey (Bos sauveli) genomes unveil polytomic origin of wild Asian Bos . iScience vol. 24 , ( 11 )
Feuerborn TR, Carmagnini A, Losey RJ, Nomokonova T, Askeyev A, Askeyev I, Askeyev O, Antipina EE et al. ( 2021 ) . Modern Siberian dog ancestry was shaped by several thousand years of Eurasian-wide trade and human dispersal . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America vol. 118 , ( 39 )
Sacks BN, Mitchell KJ, Quinn CB, Hennelly LM, Sinding MHS, Statham MJ, Preckler-Quisquater S, Fain SR et al. ( 2021 ) . Pleistocene origins, western ghost lineages, and the emerging phylogeographic history of the red wolf and coyote . Molecular Ecology vol. 30 , ( 17 ) 4292 - 4304 .
Van Marle-Köster E, Visser C, Sealy J, Frantz L ( 2021 ) . Capitalizing on the potential of south african indigenous beef cattle breeds: A review . Sustainability (Switzerland) vol. 13 , ( 8 )
Perri AR, Mitchell KJ, Mouton A, Álvarez-Carretero S, Hulme-Beaman A, Haile J, Jamieson A, Meachen J et al. ( 2021 ) . Dire wolves were the last of an ancient New World canid lineage . Nature vol. 591 , ( 7848 ) 87 - 91 .
Perri AR, Feuerborn TR, Frantz LAF, Larson G, Malhi RS, Meltzer DJ, Witt KE ( 2021 ) . Dog domestication and the dual dispersal of people and dogs into the Americas . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America vol. 118 , ( 6 )
Ramos-Madrigal J, Sinding MHS, Carøe C, Mak SST, Niemann J, Samaniego Castruita JA, Fedorov S, Kandyba A et al. ( 2021 ) . Genomes of Pleistocene Siberian Wolves Uncover Multiple Extinct Wolf Lineages . Current Biology vol. 31 , ( 1 ) 198 - 206.e8 .
Lebrasseur O, Shaymuratova D, Askeyev A, Asylgaraeva G, Frantz L, Larson G, Askeyev O, Askeyev I ( 2021 ) . A zooarchaeological and molecular assessment of ancient chicken remains from Russia . Povolzhskaya Arkheologiya vol. 1 , ( 35 ) 216 - 231 .
Zeng L, Liu HQ, Tu XL, Ji CM, Gou X, Esmailizadeh A, Wang S, Wang MS et al. ( 2021 ) . Genomes reveal selective sweeps in kiang and donkey for high-altitude adaptation . Zoological Research vol. 42 , ( 4 ) 450 - 460 .
Bogaard A, Allaby R, Arbuckle BS, Bendrey R, Crowley S, Cucchi T, Denham T, Frantz L et al. ( 2021 ) . Reconsidering domestication from a process archaeology perspective . World Archaeology vol. 53 , ( 1 ) 56 - 77 .
Kuang W, Hu J, Wu H, Fen X, Dai Q, Fu Q, Xiao W, Frantz L et al. ( 2020 ) . Genetic Diversity, Inbreeding Level, and Genetic Load in Endangered Snub-Nosed Monkeys (Rhinopithecus) . Frontiers in Genetics vol. 11 ,
Liu L, Bosse M, Megens HJ, Frantz LAF, Lee YL, Irving-Pease EK, Narayan G, Groenen MAM et al. ( 2020 ) . Addendum: Genomic analysis on pygmy hog reveals extensive interbreeding during wild boar expansion . Nature Communications vol. 11 , ( 1 )
Lee C, Day J, Goodman SM, Pedrono M, Besnard G, Frantz L, Taylor PJ, Herrera MJ et al. ( 2020 ) . Genetic origins and diversity of bushpigs from Madagascar (Potamochoerus larvatus, family Suidae) . Scientific Reports vol. 10 , ( 1 )
Bergström A, Frantz L, Schmidt R, Ersmark E, Lebrasseur O, Girdland-Flink L, Lin AT, Storå J et al. ( 2020 ) . Origins and genetic legacy of prehistoric dogs . Science (New York, N.Y.) vol. 370 , ( 6516 ) 557 - 564 .
Wang MS, Thakur M, Peng MS, Jiang Y, Frantz LAF, Li M, Zhang JJ, Wang S et al. ( 2020 ) . 863 genomes reveal the origin and domestication of chicken . Cell Research vol. 30 , ( 8 ) 693 - 701 .
Sinding MHS, Gopalakrishnan S, Ramos-Madrigal J, de Manuel M, Pitulko VV, Kuderna L, Feuerborn TR, Frantz LAF et al. ( 2020 ) . Arctic-adapted dogs emerged at the Pleistocene-Holocene transition . Science vol. 368 , ( 6498 ) 1495 - 1499 .
Allen R, Ryan H, Davis BW, King C, Frantz L, Irving-Pease E, Barnett R, Linderholm A et al. ( 2020 ) . A mitochondrial genetic divergence proxy predicts the reproductive compatibility of mammalian hybrids . Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences vol. 287 , ( 1928 ) 20200690 - 20200690 .
Frantz LAF, Bradley DG, Larson G, Orlando L ( 2020 ) . Animal domestication in the era of ancient genomics . Nature Reviews Genetics vol. 21 , ( 8 ) 449 - 460 .
Levy H, Fiddaman SR, Vianna JA, Noll D, Clucas GV, Sidhu JKH, Polito MJ, Bost CA et al. ( 2020 ) . Evidence of pathogen-induced immunogenetic selection across the large geographic range of a wild seabird . Molecular Biology and Evolution
Loog L, Thalmann O, Sinding MHS, Schuenemann VJ, Perri A, Germonpré M, Bocherens H, Witt KE et al. ( 2020 ) . Ancient DNA suggests modern wolves trace their origin to a Late Pleistocene expansion from Beringia . Molecular Ecology vol. 29 , ( 9 ) 1596 - 1610 .
Hu JY, Hao ZQ, Frantz L, Wu SF, Chen W, Jiang YF, Wu H, Kuang WM et al. ( 2020 ) . Genomic consequences of population decline in critically endangered pangolins and their demographic histories . National Science Review vol. 7 , ( 4 ) 798 - 814 .
Liu L, Bosse M, Megens HJ, Frantz LAF, Lee YL, Irving-Pease EK, Narayan G, Groenen MAM et al. ( 2019 ) . Genomic analysis on pygmy hog reveals extensive interbreeding during wild boar expansion . Nature Communications vol. 10 , ( 1 )
Ameen C, Feuerborn TR, Brown SK, Linderholm A, Hulme-Beaman A, Lebrasseur O, Sinding MHS, Lounsberry ZT et al. ( 2019 ) . Specialized sledge dogs accompanied Inuit dispersal across the North American Arctic . Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences vol. 286 , ( 1916 )
Frantz LAF, Haile J, Lin AT, Scheu A, Geörg C, Benecke N, Alexander M, Linderholm A et al. ( 2019 ) . Ancient pigs reveal a near-complete genomic turnover following their introduction to Europe . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America vol. 116 , ( 35 ) 17231 - 17238 .
Velsko IM, Fellows Yates JA, Aron F, Hagan RW, Frantz LAF, Loe L, Martinez JBR, Chaves E et al. ( 2019 ) . Microbial differences between dental plaque and historic dental calculus are related to oral biofilm maturation stage . Microbiome vol. 7 , ( 1 )
Ostrander EA, Wang GD, Larson G, Vonholdt BM, Davis BW, Jagannathan V, Hitte C, Wayne RK et al. ( 2019 ) . Dog10K: An international sequencing effort to advance studies of canine domestication, phenotypes and health . National Science Review vol. 6 , ( 4 ) 810 - 824 .
Kuang WM, Ming C, Li HP, Wu H, Frantz L, Roos C, Zhang YP, Zhang CL et al. ( 2019 ) . The Origin and Population History of the Endangered Golden Snub-Nosed Monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana) . Molecular Biology and Evolution vol. 36 , ( 3 ) 487 - 499 .
Ollivier M, Tresset A, Frantz LAF, Bréhard S, Bălăşescu A, Mashkour M, Boroneant A, Pionnier-Capitan M et al. ( 2018 ) . Dogs accompanied humans during the Neolithic expansion into Europe . Biology Letters vol. 14 , ( 10 )
FRANTZ LAF ( 2018 ) . Paleogenomics of Animal Domestication .
Beeravolu CR, Hickerson MJ, Frantz LAF, Lohse K ( 2018 ) . ABLE: blockwise site frequency spectra for inferring complex population histories and recombination . Genome Biology vol. 19 , ( 1 )
FRANTZ LAF, LARSON G ( 2018 ) . A genetic perspective on the domestication continuum . Hybrid Communities: Biosocial Approaches to Domestication and Other Trans-species Relationships , Taylor & Francis
Velsko IM, Frantz LAF, Herbig A, Larson G, Warinner C ( 2018 ) . Selection of appropriate metagenome taxonomic classifiers for ancient microbiome research . mSystems vol. 3 , ( 4 )
FRANTZ LAF ( 2018 ) . The Evolutionary History of Dogs in the Americas . Science
Frantz LAF, Rudzinski A, Nugraha AMS, Evin A, Burton J, Hulme-Beaman A, Linderholm A, Barnett R et al. ( 2018 ) . Synchronous diversification of sulawesi’s iconic artiodactyls driven by recent geological events . Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences vol. 285 , ( 1876 )
Irving-Pease EK, Frantz LAF, Sykes N, Callou C, Larson G ( 2018 ) . Rabbits and the Specious Origins of Domestication . Trends Ecol Evol vol. 33 , ( 3 ) 149 - 152 .
Velsko IM, Overmyer KA, Speller C, Klaus L, Collins MJ, Loe L, Frantz LAF, Sankaranarayanan K et al. ( 2017 ) . The dental calculus metabolome in modern and historic samples . Metabolomics vol. 13 , ( 11 ) 134 - 134 .
Prendergast ME, Buckley M, Crowther A, Frantz L, Eager H, Lebrasseur O, Hutterer R, Hulme-Beaman A et al. ( 2017 ) . Reconstructing Asian faunal introductions to eastern Africa from multi-proxy biomolecular and archaeological datasets . PLOS ONE vol. 12 , ( 8 ) e0182565 - e0182565 .
Adeola AC, Oluwole OO, Oladele BM, Olorungbounmi TO, Boladuro B, Olaogun SC, Nneji LM, Sanke OJ et al. ( 2017 ) . Analysis of the genetic variation in mitochondrial DNA, Y-chromosome sequences, and MC1R sheds light on the ancestry of Nigerian indigenous pigs . Genet Sel Evol vol. 49 , ( 1 ) 52 - 52 .
Bosse M, Lopes MS, Madsen O, Megens HJ, Crooijmans RPMA, Frantz LAF, Harlizius B, Bastiaansen JWM et al. ( 2016 ) . Artificial selection on introduced Asian haplotypes shaped the genetic architecture in european commercial pigs . Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences vol. 282 , ( 1821 )
Linderholm A, Spencer D, Battista V, Frantz L, Barnett R, Fleischer RC, James HF, Duffy D et al. ( 2016 ) . A novel MC1R allele for black coat colour reveals the Polynesian ancestry and hybridization patterns of Hawaiian feral pigs . Royal Society Open Science vol. 3 , ( 9 ) 160304 - 160304 .
Frantz LAF, Mullin VE, Pionnier-Capitan M, Lebrasseur O, Ollivier M, Perri A, Linderholm A, Mattiangeli V et al. ( 2016 ) . Genomic and archaeological evidence suggest a dual origin of domestic dogs . Science vol. 352 , ( 6290 ) 1228 - 1231 .
Frantz L, Meijaard E, Gongora J, Haile J, Groenen MAM, Larson G ( 2016 ) . The evolution of suidae . Annual Review of Animal Biosciences vol. 4 , 61 - 85 .
Paudel Y, Madsen O, Megens HJ, Frantz LAF, Bosse M, Crooijmans RPMA, Groenen MAM ( 2015 ) . Copy number variation in the speciation of pigs: A possible prominent role for olfactory receptors . BMC Genomics vol. 16 , ( 1 )
Bunnefeld L, Frantz LAF, Lohse K ( 2015 ) . Inferring bottlenecks from genome-wide samples of short sequence blocks . Genetics vol. 201 , ( 3 ) 1157 - 1169 .
Frantz LAF, Schraiber JG, Madsen O, Megens HJ, Cagan A, Bosse M, Paudel Y, Crooijmans RPMA et al. ( 2015 ) . Evidence of long-term gene flow and selection during domestication from analyses of Eurasian wild and domestic pig genomes . Nature Genetics vol. 47 , ( 10 ) 1141 - 1148 .
Frantz LAF, Madsen O, Megens HJ, Schraiber JG, Paudel Y, Bosse M, Crooijmans RPMA, Larson G et al. ( 2015 ) . Evolution of Tibetan wild boars . Nature Genetics vol. 47 , ( 3 ) 188 - 189 .
Frantz LAF, Madsen O, Megens HJ, Groenen MAM, Lohse K ( 2014 ) . Testing models of speciation from genome sequences: Divergence and asymmetric admixture in Island South-East Asian Sus species during the Plio-Pleistocene climatic fluctuations . Molecular Ecology vol. 23 , ( 22 ) 5566 - 5574 .
Bosse M, Megens HJ, Frantz LAF, Madsen O, Larson G, Paudel Y, Duijvesteijn N, Harlizius B et al. ( 2014 ) . Genomic analysis reveals selection for Asian genes in European pigs following human-mediated introgression . Nature Communications vol. 5 ,
Zytynska SE, Frantz L, Hurst B, Johnson A, Preziosi RF, Rowntree JK ( 2014 ) . Host-plant genotypic diversity and community genetic interactions mediate aphid spatial distribution . Ecology and Evolution vol. 4 , ( 2 ) 121 - 131 .
Bosse M, Madsen O, Megens HJ, Frantz LAF, Paudel Y, Crooijmans RPMA, Groenen MAM ( 2014 ) . Hybrid origin of European commercial pigs examined by an in-depth haplotype analysis on chromosome 1 . Frontiers in Genetics vol. 5 , ( DEC )
Lohse K, Frantz LAF ( 2014 ) . Neandertal admixture in eurasia confirmed by maximum-likelihood analysis of three genomes . Genetics vol. 196 , ( 4 ) 1241 - 1251 .
Rowntree JK, Zytynska SE, Frantz L, Hurst B, Johnson A, Preziosi RF ( 2014 ) . The genetics of indirect ecological effects-plant parasites and aphid herbivores . Frontiers in Genetics vol. 5 , ( APR )
Bosse M, Megens HJ, Madsen O, Frantz LAF, Paudel Y, Crooijmans RPMA, Groenen MAM ( 2014 ) . Untangling the hybrid nature of modern pig genomes: A mosaic derived from biogeographically distinct and highly divergent Sus scrofa populations . Molecular Ecology vol. 23 , ( 16 ) 4089 - 4102 .
Frantz LAF, Schraiber JG, Madsen O, Megens HJ, Bosse M, Paudel Y, Semiadi G, Meijaard E et al. ( 2013 ) . Genome sequencing reveals fine scale diversification and reticulation history during speciation in Sus . Genome Biology vol. 14 , ( 9 )
Paudel Y, Madsen O, Megens HJ, Frantz LAF, Bosse M, Bastiaansen JWM, Crooijmans RPMA, Groenen MAM ( 2013 ) . Evolutionary dynamics of copy number variation in pig genomes in the context of adaptation and domestication . BMC Genomics vol. 14 , ( 1 )
Ottoni C, Girdland Flink L, Evin A, Geörg C, De Cupere B, Van Neer W, Bartosiewicz L, Linderholm A et al. ( 2013 ) . Pig domestication and human-mediated dispersal in western eurasia revealed through ancient DNA and geometric morphometrics . Molecular Biology and Evolution vol. 30 , ( 4 ) 824 - 832 .
Tortereau F, Servin B, Frantz L, Megens HJ, Milan D, Rohrer G, Wiedmann R, Beever J et al. ( 2012 ) . A high density recombination map of the pig reveals a correlation between sex-specific recombination and GC content . BMC Genomics vol. 13 , ( 1 )
Groenen MAM, Archibald AL, Uenishi H, Tuggle CK, Takeuchi Y, Rothschild MF, Rogel-Gaillard C, Park C et al. ( 2012 ) . Analyses of pig genomes provide insight into porcine demography and evolution . Nature vol. 491 , ( 7424 ) 393 - 398 .
Bosse M, Megens HJ, Madsen O, Paudel Y, Frantz LAF, Schook LB, Crooijmans RPMA, Groenen MAM ( 2012 ) . Regions of Homozygosity in the Porcine Genome: Consequence of Demography and the Recombination Landscape . PLoS Genetics vol. 8 , ( 11 )