Morten Erik Allentoft

Morten Erik Allentoft

Associate Professor


  1. 2015
  2. Published

    Tracing the dynamic life story of a Bronze Age Female

    Frei, Karin Margarita, Mannering, U., Kristiansen, K., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Wilson, A. S., Skals, I., Tridico, S., Nosch, Marie Louise Bech, Willerslev, Eske, Clarke, L. & Frei, Robert, 2015, In: Scientific Reports. 10431.

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  3. Published

    Genetic diversity loss in a biodiversity hotspot: ancient DNA quantifies genetic decline and former connectivity in a critically endangered marsupial

    Pacioni, C., Hunt, H., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Vaughan, T. G., Wayne, A. F., Baynes, A., Haouchar, D., Dortch, J. & Bunce, M., 2015, In: Molecular Ecology. 24, 23, p. 5813-5828 16 p.

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  4. Published

    Genomic evidence for the Pleistocene and recent population history of Native Americans

    Raghavan, M., Steinrücken, M., Harris, K., Schiffels, S., Rasmussen, S., DeGiorgio, M., Albrechtsen, A., Valdiosera Morales, C. E., Avila Arcos, M. D. C., Malaspinas, A. S., Eriksson, A., Moltke, I., Metspalu, M., Homburger, J. R., Wall, J., Cornejo, O. E., Moreno Mayar, J. V., Korneliussen, T. S., Pierre, T. L., Rasmussen, M. & 81 others, Campos, P., Damgaard, P. D. B., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Lindo, J., Metspalu, E., Rodríguez-Varela, R., Mansilla, J., Henrickson, C., Seguin-Orlando, A., Malmström, H., Stafford jr., T., Shringarpure, S. S., Moreno-Estrada, A., Karmin, M., Tambets, K., Bergström, A., Xue, Y., Warmuth, V., Friend, A. D., Singarayer, J., Valdes, P., Balloux, F., Leboreiro, I., Vera, J. L., Rangel-Villalobos, H., Pettener, D., Luiselli, D., Davis, L. G., Heyer, E., Zollikofer, C. P. E., Ponce de León, M. S., Smith, C. I., Grimes, V., Pike, K., Deal, M., Fuller, B. T., Arriaza, B., Standen, V., Luz, M. F., Ricaut, F., Guidon, N., Osipova, L., Voevoda, M. I., Posukh, O. L., Balanovsky, O., Lavryashina, M., Bogunov, Y., Khusnutdinova, E., Gubina, M., Balanovska, E., Fedorova, S., Litvinov, S., Malyarchuk, B., Derenko, M., Mosher, M. J., Archer, D., Cybulski, J., Petzelt, B., Mitchell, J., Worl, R., Norman, P. J., Parham, P., Kemp, B. M., Kivisild, T., Tyler-Smith, C., Sandhu, M. S., Crawford, M., Villems, R., Smith, D. G., Waters, M. R., Goebel, T., Johnson, J. R., Malhi, R. S., Jakobsson, M., Meltzer, D. J., Manica, A., Durbin, R., Bustamante, C. D., Song, Y. S., Nielsen, Rasmus & Willerslev, Eske, 2015, In: Science (New York, N.Y.). 349, 6250, 6250.

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  5. Published

    The ancestry and affiliations of Kennewick Man

    Rasmussen, M., Sikora, Martin, Albrechtsen, Anders, Korneliussen, Thorfinn Sand, Moreno Mayar, J. Víctor, Poznik, G. D., Zollikofer, C. P. E., Ponce de León, M. S., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Moltke, Ida, Jónsson, H., Valdiosera Morales, C. E., Malhi, R. S., Orlando, L. A. A., Bustamante, C. D., Stafford jr., T., Meltzer, D. J., Nielsen, Rasmus & Willerslev, Eske, 2015, In: Nature. 523, 7561, p. 455-458 4 p.

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  6. Published

    Early divergent strains of Yersinia pestis in Eurasia 5,000 years ago

    Rasmussen, S., Allentoft, M. E., Nielsen, K., Orlando, L. A. A., Sikora, M., Sjögren, K-G., Pedersen, A. G., Schubert, M., Van Dam, A., Kapel, C. M. O., Nielsen, H. B., Brunak, S., Avetisyan, P., Epimakhov, A., Khalyapin, M. V., Gnuni, A., Kriiska, A., Lasak, I., Metspalu, M., Moiseyev, V. & 11 others, Gromov, A., Pokutta, D., Saag, L., Varul, L., Yepiskoposyan, L., Sicheritz-Ponten, T., Foley, R. A., Lahr, M. M., Nielsen, R., Kristiansen, K. & Willerslev, Eske, 2015, In: Cell. 163, 3, p. 571-582 12 p.

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  7. Published

    Genome-wide ancestry of 17th-century enslaved Africans from the Caribbean

    Schroeder, Hannes, Avila Arcos, M. D. C., Malaspinas, A. S., Poznik, G. D., Sandoval-Velasco, Marcela, Carpenter, M. L., Moreno Mayar, J. Víctor, Sikora, Martin, Johnson, P. L. F., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Samaniego Castruita, J. A., Haviser, J. B., Dee, M. W., Stafford, T. W., Salas, A., Orlando, L. A. A., Willerslev, Eske, Bustamente, C. D. & Gilbert, M Thomas P, 2015, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (PNAS). 112, 12, p. 3669–3673 5 p.

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  8. 2014
  9. Published

    Extinct New Zealand megafauna were not in decline before human colonization

    Allentoft, Morten Erik, Heller, Rasmus, Oskam, C. L., Lorenzen, Eline, Hale, M. L., Gilbert, M Thomas P, Jacomb, C., Holdaway, R. N. & Bunce, M., 2014, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (PNAS). 111, 13, p. 4922-4927 6 p.

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  10. Published

    An extremely low-density human population exterminated New Zealand moa

    Holdaway, R. N., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Jacomb, C., Oskam, C. L., Beavan, N. & Bunce, M., 2014, In: Nature Communications. 5, 8 p., 5436.

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  11. Published

    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

    Jacomb, C., Holdaway, R. N., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Bunce, M., Oskam, C. L., Walters, R. & Brooks, E., 2014, In: Journal of Archaeological Science. 50, p. 24-30 7 p.

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  12. Published

    Two ancient human genomes reveal Polynesian ancestry among the indigenous Botocudos of Brazil

    Malaspinas, A. S., Lao, O., Schroeder, H., Rasmussen, M., Raghavan, M., Moltke, I., Campos, P., Sagredo, F. S., Rasmussen, S., Gonçalves, V. F., Albrechtsen, A., Allentoft, M. E., Johnson, P. L. F., Li, M., Reis, S., Bernardo, D. V., DeGiorgio, M., Duggan, A. T., Bastos, M., Wang, Y. & 20 others, Stenderup, Jesper Tandberg, Moreno Mayar, J. Víctor, Brunak, S., Sicheritz-Ponten, T., Hodges, E., Hannon, G. J., Orlando, L. A. A., Price, T. D., Jensen, J. D., Nielsen, Rasmus, Heinemeier, J., Olsen, J., Rodrigues-Carvalho, C., Lahr, M. M., Neves, W. A., Kayser, M., Higham, T., Stoneking, M., Pena, S. D. J. & Willerslev, Eske, 2014, In: Current biology : CB. 24, 21, p. R1035-R1037 3 p.

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