Browsing Bergen Open Research Archive by Author "Hofreiter, Michael"
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Demographic reconstruction from ancient DNA supports rapid extinction of the Great Auk
Thomas, Jessica E; Carvalho, Gary R.; James, Haile; Rawlence, Nicolas J.; Martin, Michael David; Ho, Simon Y.W.; Sigfússon, Arnór; Jósefsson, Vigfús A.; Frederiksen, Morten; Linnebjerg, Jannie F.; Castruita, Jose A. Samaniego; Niemann, Jonas; Sinding, Mikkel-Holger S.; Sandoval-Velasco, Marcela; Soares, André E.R.; Lacy, Robert; Barilaro, Christina; Best, Julia; Brandis, Dirk; Cavallo, Chiara; Elorza, Mikelo; Garrett, Kimball L; Groot, Maaike; Johansson, Friederike; Lifjeld, Jan Terje; Nilson, Göran; Serjeanston, Dale; Sweet, Paul; Fuller, Errol; Hufthammer, Anne Karin; Meldgaard, Morten; Fjeldså, Jon; Shapiro, Beth; Hofreiter, Michael; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Knapp, Michael (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-11-26)The great auk was once abundant and distributed across the North Atlantic. It is now extinct, having been heavily exploited for its eggs, meat, and feathers. We investigated the impact of human hunting on its demise by ... -
Mitochondrial DNA sequencing of a wet-collection syntype demonstrates the importance of type material as genetic resource for lantern shark taxonomy (Chondrichthyes: Etmopteridae)
Straube, Nicolas; Preick, Michaela; Naylor, Gavin J.P.; Hofreiter, Michael (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)After initial detection of target archival DNA of a 116-year-old syntype specimen of the smooth lantern shark, Etmopterus pusillus, in a single-stranded DNA library, we shotgun-sequenced additional 9 million reads from ... -
Simultaneous barcode sequencing of diverse museum collection specimens using a mixed RNA bait set
Straube, Nicolas; Agne, Stefanie; Preick, Michaela; Hofreiter, Michael (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)A growing number of publications presenting results from sequencing natural history collection specimens reflect the importance of DNA sequence information from such samples. Ancient DNA extraction and library preparation ... -
Successful application of ancient DNA extraction and library construction protocols to museum wet collection specimens
Straube, Nicolas; Lyra, Mariana L.; Paijmans, Johanna L. A.; Preick, Michaela; Basler, Nikolas; Penner, Johannes; Rödel, Mark-Oliver; Westbury, Michael V; Haddad, Célio F. B.; Barlow, Axel; Hofreiter, Michael (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Millions of scientific specimens are housed in museum collections, a large part of which are fluid preserved. The use of formaldehyde as fixative and subsequent storage in ethanol is especially common in ichthyology and ... -
Taxonomic Identification of Two Poorly Known Lantern Shark Species Based on Mitochondrial DNA From Wet-Collection Paratypes
Agne, Stefanie; Naylor, Gavin J. P.; Preick, Michaela; Yang, Lei; Thiel, Ralf; Weigmann, Simon; Paijmans, Johanna L. A.; Barlow, Axel; Hofreiter, Michael; Straube, Nicolas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Etmopteridae (lantern sharks) is the most species-rich family of sharks, comprising more than 50 species. Many species are described from few individuals, and re-collection of specimens is often hindered by the remoteness ... -
Wide-spread dispersal in a deep-sea brooding polychaete: the role of natural history collections in assessing the distribution in quill worms (Onuphidae, Annelida)
Budaeva, Nataliya; Agne, Stefanie; de Azevedo Ribeiro, Pedro Miguel; Straube, Nicolas; Preick, Michaela; Hofreiter, Michael (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Background Modern integrative taxonomy-based annelid species descriptions are detailed combining morphological data and, since the last decades, also molecular information. Historic species descriptions are often ...