Publications: Allentoft, Morten

Journal Article

Pacioni, C., Hunt, H., Allentoft, M.E., Vaughan, T.G., Wayne, A.F., Baynes, A., Haouchar, D., Dortch, J. and Bunce, M. (2015) Genetic diversity loss in a biodiversity hotspot: ancient DNA quantifies genetic decline and former connectivity in a critically endangered marsupial. Molecular Ecology, 24 (23). pp. 5813-5828.

Margarita Frei, K., Mannering, U., Kristiansen, K., Allentoft, M.E., Wilson, A.S., Skals, I., Tridico, S., Louise Nosch, M., Willerslev, E., Clarke, L. and Frei, R. (2015) Tracing the dynamic life story of a bronze age female. Scientific Reports, 5 . p. 10431.

Allentoft, M.E., Heller, R., Oskam, C.L., Lorenzen, E.D., Hale, M.L., Gilbert, M.T.P., Jacomb, C., Holdaway, R.N. and Bunce, M. (2014) Extinct New Zealand megafauna were not in decline before human colonization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111 (13). pp. 4922-4927.

Jacomb, C., Holdaway, R.N., Allentoft, M.E., Bunce, M., Oskam, C.L., Walter, R. and Brooks, E. (2014) High-precision dating and ancient DNA profiling of moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes) eggshell documents a complex feature at Wairau Bar and refines the chronology of New Zealand settlement by Polynesians. Journal of Archaeological Science, 50 . pp. 24-30.

White, N.E., Bunce, M., Mawson, P.R., Dawson, R., Saunders, D.A., Allentoft, M.E. and Austin, J. (2014) Identifying conservation units after large-scale land clearing: a spatio-temporal molecular survey of endangered white-tailed black cockatoos (Calyptorhynchusspp.). Diversity and Distributions, 20 (10). pp. 1208-1220.

Holdaway, R.N., Allentoft, M.E., Jacomb, C., Oskam, C.L., Beavan, N.R. and Bunce, M. (2014) An extremely low-density human population exterminated New Zealand moa. Nature Communications, 5 . Article 5436.

Oskam, C.L., Allentoft, M.E., Walter, R., Scofield, R.P., Haile, J., Holdaway, R.N., Bunce, M. and Jacomb, C. (2012) Ancient DNA analyses of early archaeological sites in New Zealand reveal extreme exploitation of moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes) at all life stages. Quaternary Science Reviews, 52 . pp. 41-48.

Allentoft, M.E. and Rawlence, N.J. (2012) Moa's Ark or volant ghosts of Gondwana? Insights from nineteen years of ancient DNA research on the extinct moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes) of New Zealand. Annals of Anatomy - Anatomischer Anzeiger, 194 (1). pp. 36-51.

Bunce, M., Oskam, C.L. and Allentoft, M.E. (2012) Quantitative real-time PCR in aDNA research. Methods in molecular biology, 840 . pp. 121-132.

Allentoft, M.E., Collins, M., Harker, D., Haile, J., Oskam, C.L., Hale, M.L., Campos, P. F., Samaniego, J. A., Gilbert, T.P.M., Willerslev, E., Zhang, G., Scofield, R. P., Holdaway, R. N. and Bunce, M. (2012) The half-life of DNA in bone: measuring decay kinetics in 158 dated fossils. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 279 (1748). pp. 4724-4733.

Allentoft, M.E., Scofield, R.P., Oskam, C.L., Hale, M.L., Holdaway, R.N. and Bunce, M. (2012) A molecular characterization of a newly discovered megafaunal fossil site in North Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 42 (4). pp. 241-256.

Holdaway, R.N., Hawke, D.J., Bunce, M. and Allentoft, M.E. (2011) Identification of an optimal sampling position for stable isotopic analysis of bone collagen of extinct moa (Aves: Emeidae). Notornis, 58 (1). pp. 1-7.

Oskam, C.L., Jacomb, C., Allentoft, M.E., Walter, R., Paul Scofield, R., Haile, J., Holdaway, R.N. and Bunce, M. (2011) Molecular and morphological analyses of avian eggshell excavated from a late thirteenth century earth oven. Journal of Archaeological Science, 38 (10). pp. 2589-2595.

Allentoft, M.E., Oskam, C.L., Houston, J., Hale, M.L., Gilbert, M.T.P, Rasmussen, M., Spencer, P.ORCID: 0000-0002-4938-2615, Jacomb, C., Willerslev, E., Holdaway, R.N. and Bunce, M. (2011) Profiling the dead: generating microsatellite data from fossil bones of extinct Megafauna — protocols, problems, and prospects. PLoS ONE, 6 (1). e16670.

Oskam, C.L., Haile, J., McLay, E., Rigby, P., Allentoft, M.E., Olsen, M.E., Bengtsson, C., Miller, G.H., Schwenninger, J.L., Jacomb, C., Walter, R., Baynes, A., Dortch, J., Parker-Pearson, M., Gilbert, M.T.P., Holdaway, R.N., Willerslev, E. and Bunce, M. (2010) Fossil avian eggshell preserves ancient DNA. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 277 (1690). pp. 1991-2000.

Allentoft, M.E. and O’Brien, J. (2010) Global amphibian declines, loss of genetic diversity and fitness: a review. Diversity, 2 (1). pp. 47-71.

Allentoft, M.E., Bunce, M., Scofield, R.P., Hale, M.L. and Holdaway, R.N. (2010) Highly skewed sex ratios and biased fossil deposition of moa: ancient DNA provides new insight on New Zealand's extinct megafauna. Quaternary Science Reviews, 29 (5-6). pp. 753-762.

Hebsgaard, M.B., Gilbert, T.P., Arneborg, J., Heyn, P., Allentoft, M.E., Bunce, M., Munch, K., Schweger, C. and Willerslev, E. (2009) ‘The Farm Beneath the Sand’ – an archaeological case study on ancient ‘dirt’ DNA. Antiquity, 83 (320). pp. 430-444.

Allentoft, M.E., Schuster, S., Holdaway, R., Hale, M., McLay, E., Oskam, C.L., Gilbert, M.T.P., Spencer, P.ORCID: 0000-0002-4938-2615, Willerslev, E. and Bunce, M. (2009) Identification of microsatellites from an extinct moa species using high-throughput (454) sequence data. BioTechniques, 46 (3). pp. 195-200.

Allentoft, M.E., Siegismund, H.R., Briggs, L. and Andersen, L.W. (2009) Microsatellite analysis of the natterjack toad (Bufo calamita) in Denmark: populations are islands in a fragmented landscape. Conservation Genetics, 10 (1). pp. 15-28.

Conference Item

Bunce, M., White, N., Allentoft, M., Oskam, C. and Haile, J. (2011) What can ancient DNA tell us about palaeoecology? Case studies from Australasia. In: Ecological Society of Australia, 2011 Annual conference, 21 - 25 November, Hobart, Australia.