Beth Shapiro
Pennsylvania State University
Current Projects
- Developing New Biosignatures — 2014 NAI
- Biosignatures in Relevant Microbial Ecosystems — 2013 NAI
- Biosignatures in Ancient Rocks - Kasting Group — 2013 NAI
- Developing New Biosignatures — 2013 NAI
- Biosignatures in Ancient Rocks — 2012 NAI
- Biosignatures in Relevant Microbial Ecosystems — 2012 NAI
- Developing New Biosignatures — 2012 NAI
- Biosignatures in Ancient Rocks — 2011 NAI
- Biosignatures in Relevant Microbial Ecosystems — 2011 NAI
- Developing New Biosignatures — 2011 NAI
- Biosignatures in Ancient Rocks — 2010 NAI
- Biosignatures in Relevant Microbial Ecosystems — 2010 NAI
- Developing New Biosignatures — 2010 NAI
- Biosignatures in Ancient Rocks — 2009 NAI
- Developing New Biosignatures — 2009 NAI
- Biosignatures in Relevant Microbial Ecosystems — 2009 NAI
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NAI Project Collaborators
- Project collaborators as reported by the latest NAI Annual Report.
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Publications
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Collins, M. J., Penkman, K. E. H., Rohland, N., Shapiro, B., Dobberstein, R. C., Ritz-Timme, S., & Hofreiter, M. (2009). Is amino acid racemization a useful tool for screening for ancient DNA in bone?. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 276(1669), 2971–2977. doi:10.1098/rspb.2009.0563
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Edwards, C. J., Suchard, M. A., Lemey, P., Welch, J. J., Barnes, I., Fulton, T. L., … Shapiro, B. (2011). Ancient Hybridization and an Irish Origin for the Modern Polar Bear Matriline. Current Biology, 21(15), 1251–1258. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2011.05.058
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Fulton, T. L., Wagner, S. M., Fisher, C., & Shapiro, B. (2012). Nuclear DNA from the extinct Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) confirms a single origin of New World pigeons. Annals of Anatomy – Anatomischer Anzeiger, 194(1), 52–57. doi:10.1016/j.aanat.2011.02.017
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Higham, T., Compton, T., Stringer, C., Jacobi, R., Shapiro, B., Trinkaus, E., … Fagan, M. (2011). The earliest evidence for anatomically modern humans in northwestern Europe. Nature, 479(7374), 521–524. doi:10.1038/nature10484
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Kistler, L., & Shapiro, B. (2011). Ancient DNA confirms a local origin of domesticated chenopod in eastern North America. Journal of Archaeological Science, 38(12), 3549–3554. doi:10.1016/j.jas.2011.08.023
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Lippold, S., Knapp, M., Kuznetsova, T., Leonard, J. A., Benecke, N., Ludwig, A., … Hofreiter, M. (2011). Discovery of lost diversity of paternal horse lineages using ancient DNA. Nat Comms, 2, 450. doi:10.1038/ncomms1447
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Lorenzen, E. D., Nogués-Bravo, D., Orlando, L., Weinstock, J., Binladen, J., Marske, K. A., … Willerslev, E. (2011). Species-specific responses of Late Quaternary megafauna to climate and humans. Nature, 479(7373), 359–364. doi:10.1038/nature10574
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Rambaut, A., Ho, S. Y. W., Drummond, A. J., & Shapiro, B. (2008). Accommodating the Effect of Ancient DNA Damage on Inferences of Demographic Histories. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 26(2), 245–248. doi:10.1093/molbev/msn256
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Shapiro, B., Ho, S. Y. W., Drummond, A. J., Suchard, M. A., Pybus, O. G., & Rambaut, A. (2010). A Bayesian Phylogenetic Method to Estimate Unknown Sequence Ages. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 28(2), 879–887. doi:10.1093/molbev/msq262
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Workman, C., Dalen, L., Vartanyan, S., Shapiro, B., Kosintsev, P., Sher, A., … Barnes, I. (2011). Population-level genotyping of coat colour polymorphism in woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius). Quaternary Science Reviews, 30(17-18), 2304–2308. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.08.020
See Project - Anbar, A.D., Boyd, E.S., Buick, R., Claire, M., Des Marais, D., Domagal-Goldman, S., Eigenbrode, J., Erwin, D., Freeman, K., Hazen, R., Johnson, C., Lyons, T., Meadows, V., Ohmoto, H., Ono, S., Peters, J.W., Shapiro, B., Summons, R. & Walter, M. (2010). An Archean biosphere initiative [abstract 5593]. Astrobiology Science Conference 2010. See Project
- Fulton, T.L., Wagner, S.M.(.u., Fisher, C. & Shapiro, B. (In Press). Nuclear DNA from the extinct passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) confirms its phylogenetic placement within the Columbinae. Annals of Anatomy. See Project
- Letts, B., Fulton, T.L., Stiller, M., Andrews, T., MacKay, G., Popkp, R. & Shapiro, B. (2012). Ancient DNA Reveals Genetic Continuity in Mountain Woodland Caribou of the Mackenzie and Selwyn Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada. Arctic Institute of North America, 65(5). See Project
- Letts, B., Fulton, T.L., Stiller, M., Andrews, T., MacKay, G., Popkp, R. & Shapiro, B. (In Press). Ancient DNA reveals genetic continuity in woodland caribou of the Central Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada. Arctic. See Project
- Lorenzen, E.D., Nogues-Bravo, D., Orlando, L., Weinstock, J., Binladen, J., Marske, K.A., Authors, 5.a., Shapiro, B., Rahbek, C. & Willerslev, E. (In Press). Individualistic species responses to climate and humans determine Late Quaternary megafaunal extinction and survival. Nature. See Project
- Orlando, L., Ginolhac, A., Raghavan, M., Vilstrup, J., Rasmussen, M., Magnussen, K., Steinmann, K., Kapranov, P., Thompson, J.F., Shapiro, B., Zazula, G., Froese, D., Hofreiter, M., Al-Rasheid, K.A.S., Mundy, J., Gilbert, M.T.P. & Willerslev, E. (In Press). Single-molecule ancient DNA sequencing of a Pleistocene horse bone. Genome Research. See Project
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Email:
beth.shapiro@psu.edu