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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Hendrik Nicholas Poinar is an evolutionary biologist specializing in ancient DNA. Poinar first became known for extracting DNA sequences from ground sloth coprolites. He is currently director of the Ancient DNA Centre at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.
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Published Works
- Antibiotic resistance is ancient (2011) (1847)
- Ancient DNA: Do It Right or Not at All (2000) (1180)
- Genetic analyses from ancient DNA. (2004) (1163)
- A draft genome of Yersinia pestis from victims of the Black Death (2011) (601)
- Metagenomics to Paleogenomics: Large-Scale Sequencing of Mammoth DNA (2006) (572)
- Molecular coproscopy: dung and diet of the extinct ground sloth Nothrotheriops shastensis. (1998) (462)
- Ancient Biomolecules from Deep Ice Cores Reveal a Forested Southern Greenland (2007) (409)
- Amino Acid Racemization and the Preservation of Ancient DNA (1996) (379)
- Yersinia pestis and the plague of Justinian 541-543 AD: a genomic analysis. (2014) (348)
- Isolation of nucleic acids and cultures from fossil ice and permafrost. (2004) (255)
- Complete Genomes Reveal Signatures of Demographic and Genetic Declines in the Woolly Mammoth (2015) (236)
- Recharacterization of ancient DNA miscoding lesions: insights in the era of sequencing-by-synthesis (2006) (206)
- Targeted enrichment of ancient pathogens yielding the pPCP1 plasmid of Yersinia pestis from victims of the Black Death (2011) (200)
- Ancient DNA (2001) (190)
- 17th Century Variola Virus Reveals the Recent History of Smallpox (2016) (163)
- Shotgun Mitogenomics Provides a Reference Phylogenetic Framework and Timescale for Living Xenarthrans (2015) (155)
- Protein preservation and DNA retrieval from ancient tissues. (1999) (146)
- Antibiotic resistance is ancient: implications for drug discovery. (2012) (143)
- Ancient DNA from lake sediments: Bridging the gap between paleoecology and genetics (2011) (138)
- New insights from old bones: DNA preservation and degradation in permafrost preserved mammoth remains (2009) (138)
- Nuclear Gene Sequences from a Late Pleistocene Sloth Coprolite (2003) (134)
- A molecular analysis of dietary diversity for three archaic Native Americans (2001) (134)
- Out of America: Ancient DNA Evidence for a New World Origin of Late Quaternary Woolly Mammoths (2008) (129)
- Eighteenth century Yersinia pestis genomes reveal the long-term persistence of an historical plague focus (2016) (128)
- Second-pandemic strain of Vibrio cholerae from the Philadelphia cholera outbreak of 1849. (2014) (124)
- Ancient whole genome enrichment using baits built from modern DNA. (2014) (123)
- Comparison of methods in the recovery of nucleic acids from archival formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded autopsy tissues. (2010) (121)
- A comprehensive genomic history of extinct and living elephants (2018) (113)
- The top 10 list: criteria of authenticity for DNA from ancient and forensic samples (2003) (105)
- DNA from an extinct plant (1993) (99)
- A quantitative approach to detect and overcome PCR inhibition in ancient DNA extracts. (2009) (89)
- Osteocalcin protein sequences of Neanderthals and modern primates. (2005) (87)
- Plant DNA sequences from feces: potential means for assessing diets of wild primates (2007) (85)
- A novel method for collection and preservation of faeces for genetic studies (2004) (85)
- Regional differences in bone collagen δ13C and δ15N of Pleistocene mammoths: Implications for paleoecology of the mammoth steppe (2010) (79)
- Plasmodium falciparum malaria in 1st–2nd century CE southern Italy (2016) (79)
- The hygiene hypothesis, the COVID pandemic, and consequences for the human microbiome (2021) (78)
- The paradox of HBV evolution as revealed from a 16th century mummy (2018) (75)
- Molecular analysis of a 11 700‐year‐old rodent midden from the Atacama Desert, Chile (2002) (75)
- Isolation and partial characterisation of DNA from the bee Proplebeia dominicana (Apidae : Hymenoptera) in 25-40 million year old amber (1992) (72)
- The phylogenetic affinities of the extinct glyptodonts (2016) (72)
- Ancient Mitogenomes Reveal the Evolutionary History and Biogeography of Sloths (2019) (69)
- Amino acid racemization in amber-entombed insects: implications for DNA preservation. (1994) (68)
- Enzymatic Amplification and Nucleotide Sequencing of Portions of the 18s rRNA gene of the Bee Proplebeia dominicana (Apidae: Hymenoptera) Isolated from 25-40 Million Year Old Dominican Amber (1992) (65)
- Molecular caving (2003) (63)
- Complete Columbian mammoth mitogenome suggests interbreeding with woolly mammoths (2011) (62)
- The Justinianic Plague: An inconsequential pandemic? (2019) (61)
- Mammuthus Population Dynamics in Late Pleistocene North America: Divergence, Phylogeography, and Introgression (2016) (60)
- Ancient pathogen DNA in archaeological samples detected with a Microbial Detection Array (2014) (50)
- The evolutionary and phylogeographic history of woolly mammoths: a comprehensive mitogenomic analysis (2017) (47)
- Long-term survival of ancient DNA in Egypt: response to Zink and Nerlich (2003). (2005) (46)
- Quantitative PCR as a predictor of aligned ancient DNA read counts following targeted enrichment. (2013) (44)
- Capturing the Resistome: a Targeted Capture Method To Reveal Antibiotic Resistance Determinants in Metagenomes (2019) (40)
- The genetic secrets some fossils hold. (2002) (39)
- Time dependency of molecular rates in ancient DNA data sets, a sampling artifact? (2009) (39)
- Yersinia pestis: New Evidence for an Old Infection (2012) (38)
- A preliminary analysis of the DNA and diet of the extinct Beothuk: a systematic approach to ancient human DNA. (2007) (36)
- Herald waves of cholera in nineteenth century London (2011) (36)
- Complete mitochondrial genomes of living and extinct pigeons revise the timing of the columbiform radiation (2016) (34)
- Quantitative Assessment of the Sensitivity of Various Commercial Reverse Transcriptases Based on Armored HIV RNA (2010) (32)
- Evolution of immune genes is associated with the Black Death (2022) (31)
- A molecular portrait of maternal sepsis from Byzantine Troy (2017) (30)
- Optimizing extraction and targeted capture of ancient environmental DNA for reconstructing past environments using the PalaeoChip Arctic-1.0 bait-set (2020) (29)
- Comment on “DNA from Pre-Clovis Human Coprolites in Oregon, North America” (2009) (26)
- "Colony sequencing": direct sequencing of plasmid DNA from bacterial colonies. (1997) (26)
- Ancient human genomics: the methodology behind reconstructing evolutionary pathways. (2015) (24)
- Molecular Analyses of Oral Polio Vaccine Samples (2001) (23)
- Ancient DNA and the tropics: a rodent's tale (2014) (22)
- Mylodon darwinii DNA sequences from ancient fecal hair shafts. (2012) (20)
- The Recovery, Interpretation and Use of Ancient Pathogen Genomes (2020) (19)
- Ancient Roman mitochondrial genomes and isotopes reveal relationships and geographic origins at the local and pan-Mediterranean scales (2018) (19)
- Collapse of the mammoth-steppe in central Yukon as revealed by ancient environmental DNA (2021) (17)
- Genetic Discontinuity between the Maritime Archaic and Beothuk Populations in Newfoundland, Canada (2017) (16)
- Comment: Characterization of Two Historic Smallpox Specimens from a Czech Museum (2017) (16)
- DNA from Amber Inclusions (1994) (16)
- Amplicon pyrosequencing late Pleistocene permafrost: the removal of putative contaminant sequences and small‐scale reproducibility (2013) (16)
- The origins and genomic diversity of American Civil War Era smallpox vaccine strains (2020) (15)
- Resolving the phylogenetic position of Darwin's extinct ground sloth (Mylodon darwinii) using mitogenomic and nuclear exon data (2018) (15)
- Surveying the repair of ancient DNA from bones via high-throughput sequencing. (2015) (15)
- Ancient Pathogens Through Human History: A Paleogenomic Perspective (2018) (14)
- Shifting Climates, Foods, and Diseases: The Human Microbiome through Evolution. (2019) (14)
- Genetic resiliency and the Black Death: No apparent loss of mitogenomic diversity due to the Black Death in medieval London and Denmark. (2019) (14)
- A Single Amino Acid Change in the Response Regulator PhoP, Acquired during Yersinia pestis Evolution, Affects PhoP Target Gene Transcription and Polymyxin B Susceptibility (2018) (13)
- A multi-faceted anthropological and genomic approach to framing Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Imperial period central-southern Italy (1st–4th c. CE) (2018) (13)
- Amino Acids in the Amber Matrix and in Entombed Insects (1996) (12)
- Preservation of DNA in the fossil record (2000) (11)
- Neandertal genetics. (1997) (10)
- Acceleration of plague outbreaks in the second pandemic (2020) (10)
- Comment on "Whole-Genome Shotgun Sequencing of Mitochondria from Ancient Hair Shafts" (2008) (10)
- Molecular identification of paleofeces from Bechan Cave, southeastern Utah, USA (2017) (10)
- Rapid Design of a Bait Capture Platform for Culture- and Amplification-Free Next-Generation Sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 (2020) (9)
- Adaptation in a Fibronectin Binding Autolysin of Staphylococcus saprophyticus (2017) (9)
- Correction: The paradox of HBV evolution as revealed from a 16th century mummy (2018) (9)
- A Black Death mass grave at Thornton Abbey: the discovery and examination of a fourteenth-century rural catastrophe (2020) (9)
- ‘Written in Bone’: New Discoveries about the Lives and Burials of Four Roman Londoners (2017) (8)
- Erratum: A draft genome of Yersinia pestis from victims of the Black Death (2011) (6)
- Extraction of DNA from paleofeces. (2012) (6)
- American mastodon mitochondrial genomes suggest multiple dispersal events in response to Pleistocene climate oscillations (2020) (6)
- Case study: ancient sloth DNA recovered from hairs preserved in paleofeces. (2012) (6)
- Regional differences in bone collagen carbon- and nitrogen-isotope ratios of Pleistocene mammoths: Implications for paleoecology of the mammoth steppe (2010) (5)
- Human ectoparasite transmission of the plague during the Second Pandemic is only weakly supported by proposed mathematical models (2018) (5)
- PalaeoChip Arctic1.0: An optimised eDNA targeted enrichment approach to reconstructing past environments (2019) (5)
- Estimation of Gene Insertion/Deletion Rates with Missing Data (2016) (4)
- Recharacterization of ancient DNA miscoding lesions: Insights in the era of the GS20 (2008) (3)
- Dorset Pre-Inuit and Beothuk foodways in Newfoundland, ca. AD 500-1829 (2019) (3)
- Preservation of DNA from endangered species. (2000) (2)
- Fast I(n)dentification of Pathogens in Neonates (FINDPATH-N): protocol for a prospective pilot cohort study of next-generation sequencing for pathogen identification in neonates with suspected sepsis (2020) (2)
- Correction to ‘Ancient DNA and the tropics: a rodent's tale’ (2015) (2)
- Response to Brinkmann et al. “Re-assembly of 19th century smallpox vaccine genomes reveals the contemporaneous use of horsepox and horsepox-related viruses in the United States” (2020) (2)
- Yersinia pestis and the three plague pandemics--authors' reply. (2014) (2)
- Pleistocene mitogenomes reconstructed from the environmental DNA of permafrost sediments (2022) (2)
- The phylogenetic affi nities of the extinct glyptodonts (2016) (2)
- Plagued by a cryptic clock: insight and issues from the global phylogeny of Yersinia pestis (2021) (1)
- DNA, DINOSAURS, AND METAGENOMICS: A NEW TOOL FOR MASS IDENTIFICATION OF DNA FROM FOSSIL BONE (2012) (1)
- Genomic data suggest parallel dental vestigialization within the xenarthran radiation (2022) (1)
- DNA Chemical Instability (2002) (1)
- Sequencing of Mammoth DNA Metagenomics to Paleogenomics: Large-Scale (2008) (1)
- Ancient Mitogenomes Shed Light on the Evolutionary History and Biogeography of Sloths (2019) (1)
- Mitochondrial population dynamics in Black Death London (2018) (1)
- [The Black Death, natural selection and susceptibility to auto-immune disorders]. (2023) (1)
- 1000 Plagues in the Genomics Era: The Three Pandemic Problem (2020) (0)
- A 16th century Escherichia coli draft genome associated with an opportunistic bile infection (2022) (0)
- The phylogenetic aff init ies of the extinct glyptodonts (2016) (0)
- Theoretical and experimental considerations on the recovery of DNA and viable organisms from ancient ice and permafrost (2005) (0)
- Examining sampling strategies for archaeological dental calculus through the exploration of the regional variation of bacteria in the oral microbiome (2020) (0)
- The origins and genomic diversity of American Civil War Era smallpox vaccine strains (2020) (0)
- Ancient pathogen genomics: a strategy for the parallel detection of multiple pathogens in archaeological samples (2016) (0)
- Stable isotope evidence for precontact Amerindian diet in Newfoundland, Canada (2016) (0)
- Adaptation Of Staphylococcus saprophyticus At The Host-Pathogen Interface (2017) (0)
- Smallpox's antiquity in doubt (2022) (0)
- Genome-wide signatures of demographic change and Holocene genetic decline in the extinct woolly mammoth (2014) (0)
- A mitochondrial DNA study of the Beothuk and Maritime Archaic, extinct aboriginal populations from Newfoundland and Labrador (2017) (0)
- Molecular evidence for Plasmodium falciparum malaria in 1st-4th c. A.D. southern Italy (2017) (0)
- Examining pathogen DNA recovery across the remains of a 14th century Italian friar (Blessed Sante) infected with Brucella melitensis. (2022) (0)
- Ecological turnover and megafaunal ghost ranges during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in central Yukon, Canada as revealed by palaeoenvironmental DNA (2021) (0)
- Relict permafrost preserves megafauna, insects, pollen, soils and pore-ice isotopes of the mammoth steppe and its collapse in central Yukon (2023) (0)
- Probe design for simultaneous, targeted capture of diverse metagenomic targets (2020) (0)
- Buried Middle Pleistocene ice wedge systems and longterm survival of ancient Yedoma carbon (2012) (0)
- Fixed and Embedded Samples 6 DNA from Amber Inclusions (1994) (0)
- MEGAHERBIVORE DYNAMICS AT THE PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE TRANSITION IN EASTERN BERINGIA USING MULTIPROXY PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL RECORDS (2020) (0)
- The phylogenetic affinities of the extinct glyptodonts (2022) (0)
- Emergence, continuity, and evolution of Yersinia pestis throughout medieval and early modern Denmark (2023) (0)
- Probe design for simultaneous, targeted capture of diverse metagenomic targets (2022) (0)
- Improving the extraction of ancient Yersinia pestis genomes from the dental pulp (2023) (0)
- PalaeoChip: An eDNA targeted enrichment approach for reconstructing human palaeoecoystems (2020) (0)
- Assessing Demographic Change From the Iron Age (7th – 4th c. B.C.E) through the Roman Period (1st – 3rd c. C.E.) in Southern Italy Using Isotope and Whole-Mitochondrial Genome Analysis (2017) (0)
- Maritime Archaic Subsistence in Newfoundland, Canada: Insights from δ13C and δ15N of Bulk Bone Collagen and Amino Acids (2017) (0)
- 299 Genetic tool for understanding long-term forest changes : analysis of ancient DNA from lakebed sediments (2012) (0)
- Reply to Barton et al: signatures of natural selection during the Black Death (2023) (0)
- Quantification of past arctic herbivore populations from ancient sedimentary DNA by hybridization capture enrichment, metabarcoding, and droplet digital PCR (2020) (0)
- Malaria in the rural hinterland of southern Italy: A multi-faceted anthropological and genomic perspective from Vagnari (1st-4th c. C.E.) (2018) (0)
- Author response: A molecular portrait of maternal sepsis from Byzantine Troy (2016) (0)
- Strontium and oxygen isotope evidence for Maritime Archaic mobility patterns at the site of Port au Choix-3, Newfoundland (2017) (0)
- Benefits of Time Travel, the McMaster Ancient DNA Centre (2017) (0)
- Water isotopes of Ontario: investigating the applications of hydrogen and oxygen isotopes as geographical indicators (2013) (0)
- Complete mitochondrial genomes of living and extinct pigeons revise the timing of the columbiform radiation (2016) (0)
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