Publications

Community-curated and standardised metadata of published ancient metagenomic samples with AncientMetagenomeDir

A review of the history of ancient DNA in pathogen and pandemic research and how we interpret the spread of diseases in the past.

Researchers at the Ancient DNA Centre outline new methods for the extraction and enrichment of ancient DNA from permafrost cores greatly increasing the amount of breadth of material recovered.

As part of a large collaborative project, researchers at the Ancient DNA Centre conducted the first large scale phylogeographic analysis of American mastodons and showed the repeatedly migrated vast distances in response to glacial retreat.

McMaster Ancient DNA Centre researchers characterize the genetics of early smallpox vaccinations, extracting ancient DNA from the preserved scabs and lymph used to inoculate Civil War soldiers.

Research software from McMaster provides new avenues for geneticists to access and interpret datasets from the National Centre for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

New research suggests that reports of death in the wake of the Justinian Plague have been greatly exaggerated.

New mitochondrial genomes for extinct sloths suggests a very different evolutionary path for giant ground and Caribbean sloths.

Nuclear and mitochondrial data from Darwin's extinct ground sloth shows close relation to two-fingered sloths and supports multiple origins for arboreality.