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Zhang T, Chancellor A, Liem B, Turner C, Hutchinson D, Wong E, Glamuzina E, Hong JB, Cleland J, Child N, Roxburgh RH, Patel S, Lee YC, Liao YC, Anderson NE. Neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease in New Zealand: A novel discovery. J Neurol Sci 2024; 460:122987. [PMID: 38579412 DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2024.122987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2024] [Revised: 02/24/2024] [Accepted: 03/31/2024] [Indexed: 04/07/2024]
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Neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease, caused by a GGC repeat expansion in the 5'-untranslated region of NOTCH2NLC, is a rare neurodegenerative condition with highly variable clinical manifestations. In recent years, the number of reported cases have increased dramatically in East Asia. We report the first four genetically confirmed cases of neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease in New Zealand, all having Polynesian ancestry (three New Zealand Māori and one Cook Island Māori). Phenotypically, they resemble cases reported from recent large East Asian cohorts.
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- Tony Zhang
- Department of Neurology, Auckland City Hospital, Te Whatu Ora Te Toka Tumai, Auckland, New Zealand.
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- Tauranga Hospital, New Zealand Te Whatu Ora Hauora a Toi, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
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- Department of Neurology, Auckland City Hospital, Te Whatu Ora Te Toka Tumai, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Anatomical Pathology and Cytology, Auckland City Hospital, Te Whatu Ora Te Toka Tumai, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Neurology, Auckland City Hospital, Te Whatu Ora Te Toka Tumai, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Neurology, Auckland City Hospital, Te Whatu Ora Te Toka Tumai, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Adult and Paediatric Metabolic Service, Auckland City Hospital, Te Whatu Ora Te Toka Tumai, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Neurology, Auckland City Hospital, Te Whatu Ora Te Toka Tumai, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Tauranga Hospital, New Zealand Te Whatu Ora Hauora a Toi, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
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- Department of Neurology, Auckland City Hospital, Te Whatu Ora Te Toka Tumai, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Neurology, Auckland City Hospital, Te Whatu Ora Te Toka Tumai, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Neurology, Auckland City Hospital, Te Whatu Ora Te Toka Tumai, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Neurology, Neurological Institute, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Neurology and Brain Research Center, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Neurology, Neurological Institute, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Neurology and Brain Research Center, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Neurology, Auckland City Hospital, Te Whatu Ora Te Toka Tumai, Auckland, New Zealand
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Rakotonirina A, Dauga C, Pol M, Hide M, Vuth L, Ballan V, Kilama S, Russet S, Marcombe S, Boyer S, Pocquet N. Speciation patterns of Aedes mosquitoes in the Scutellaris Group: a mitochondrial perspective. Sci Rep 2024; 14:10930. [PMID: 38740928 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-61573-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2024] [Accepted: 05/07/2024] [Indexed: 05/16/2024] Open
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The Scutellaris Group of Aedes comprises 47 mosquito species, including Aedes albopictus. While Ae. albopictus is widely distributed, the other species are mostly found in the Asia-Pacific region. Evolutionary history researches of Aedes species within the Scutellaris Group have mainly focused on Ae. albopictus, a species that raises significant public health concerns, neglecting the other species. In this study, we aimed to assess genetic diversity and estimate speciation times of several species within the Scutellaris Group. Mosquitoes were therefore collected from various Asia-Pacific countries. Their mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 (cox1) and subunit 3 (cox3) sequences were analyzed alongside those of other Scutellaris Group species available in the GenBank database. To estimate the divergence time, we analyzed 1849 cox1 gene sequences from 21 species, using three species (Aedes aegypti, Aedes notoscriptus and Aedes vigilax) as outgroups. We found that most of the speciation dates occurred during the Paleogene and the Neogene periods. A separation between the Scutellaris Subgroup and the Albopictus Subgroup occurred approximately 64-61 million years ago (MYA). We also identified a split between species found in Asia/Micronesia and those collected in Melanesia/Polynesia approximately 36-35 MYA. Our findings suggest that the speciation of Aedes species within the Scutellaris Group may be driven by diversity in mammalian hosts, climate and environmental changes, and geological dynamics rather than human migration.
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- Antsa Rakotonirina
- Medical and Veterinary Entomology Unit, Institut Pasteur du Cambodge, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
- Unité de Recherche et d'Expertise en Entomologie Médicale, Institut Pasteur de Nouvelle-Calédonie, Nouméa, Nouvelle-Calédonie.
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- Arboriruses and Insect Vectors Laboratory, Institut Pasteur Paris, Paris, France
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- Unité de Recherche et d'Expertise en Entomologie Médicale, Institut Pasteur de Nouvelle-Calédonie, Nouméa, Nouvelle-Calédonie
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- Maladies Infectieuses et Vecteurs: écologie, génétique, évolution et contrôle (MIVEGEC), Université de Montpellier, IRD, CNRS, Montpellier, France
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- Medical and Veterinary Entomology Unit, Institut Pasteur du Cambodge, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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- Unité de Recherche et d'Expertise en Entomologie Médicale, Institut Pasteur de Nouvelle-Calédonie, Nouméa, Nouvelle-Calédonie
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- Unité de Recherche et d'Expertise en Entomologie Médicale, Institut Pasteur de Nouvelle-Calédonie, Nouméa, Nouvelle-Calédonie
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- Unité de Recherche et d'Expertise en Entomologie Médicale, Institut Pasteur de Nouvelle-Calédonie, Nouméa, Nouvelle-Calédonie
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- Vector Borne Disease Laboratory, Institut Pasteur du Laos, Vientiane, Laos
- Vector Control Consulting-South East Asia SOLE CO., LTD., Vientiane, Lao PDR
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- Medical and Veterinary Entomology Unit, Institut Pasteur du Cambodge, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
- Ecology and Emergence of Arthropod-Borne Pathogens Unit, Department of Global Health, Institut Pasteur, CNRS UMR2000, Paris, France
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- Unité de Recherche et d'Expertise en Entomologie Médicale, Institut Pasteur de Nouvelle-Calédonie, Nouméa, Nouvelle-Calédonie
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Strandberg NA, Steinbauer MJ, Walentowitz A, Gosling WD, Fall PL, Prebble M, Stevenson J, Wilmshurst JM, Sear DA, Langdon PG, Edwards ME, Nogué S. Floristic homogenization of South Pacific islands commenced with human arrival. Nat Ecol Evol 2024; 8:511-518. [PMID: 38225430 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-023-02306-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2023] [Accepted: 12/07/2023] [Indexed: 01/17/2024]
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The increasing similarity of plant species composition among distinct areas is leading to the homogenization of ecosystems globally. Human actions such as ecosystem modification, the introduction of non-native plant species and the extinction or extirpation of endemic and native plant species are considered the main drivers of this trend. However, little is known about when floristic homogenization began or about pre-human patterns of floristic similarity. Here we investigate vegetation trends during the past 5,000 years across the tropical, sub-tropical and warm temperate South Pacific using fossil pollen records from 15 sites on 13 islands within the biogeographical realm of Oceania. The site comparisons show that floristic homogenization has increased over the past 5,000 years. Pairwise Bray-Curtis similarity results also show that when two islands were settled by people in a given time interval, their floristic similarity is greater than when one or neither of the islands were settled. Importantly, higher elevation sites, which are less likely to have experienced human impacts, tended to show less floristic homogenization. While biotic homogenization is often referred to as a contemporary issue, we have identified a much earlier trend, likely driven by human colonization of the islands and subsequent impacts.
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- Nichola A Strandberg
- School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, UK.
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- Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER) and Bayreuth Center for Sport Science (BaySpo), University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany.
- Department of Biological Sciences and Bjerknes Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
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- Department of Biogeography, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Department of Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA
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- School of Earth and Environment, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
- School of Culture, History and Language, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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- School of Culture, History and Language, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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- Long-term Ecology Laboratory, Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research, Lincoln, New Zealand
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- School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, UK
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- School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, UK
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- School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, UK
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- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain.
- CREAF, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain.
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Ando M, Higuchi Y, Yuan JH, Yoshimura A, Higashi S, Takeuchi M, Hobara T, Kojima F, Noguchi Y, Takei J, Hiramatsu Y, Nozuma S, Sakiyama Y, Hashiguchi A, Matsuura E, Okamoto Y, Nagai M, Takashima H. Genetic and clinical features of cerebellar ataxia with RFC1 biallelic repeat expansions in Japan. Front Neurol 2022; 13:952493. [PMID: 36034314 PMCID: PMC9404689 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2022.952493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2022] [Accepted: 06/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The recessive intronic pentanucleotide repeat AAGGG expansion of replication factor complex subunit 1 (RFC1) is associated with cerebellar ataxia, sensory neuropathy, and vestibular areflexia syndrome. And the clinical spectrum has been continuously expanding. We conducted this study to demonstrate the clinical and genetic features of a large-scale case series of Japanese patients with cerebellar ataxia with RFC1 repeat expansions. We examined 1,289 Japanese patients with cerebellar ataxia and analyzed RFC1 repeat expansions in 840 patients, excluding those with genetic diagnoses or an autosomal dominant inheritance pattern. For individuals where no product was obtained by flanking polymerase chain reaction (PCR), repeat-primed PCR was performed using primers specific for the following four repeat motifs: AAAAG, AAAGG, AAGGG, and ACAGG. RFC1 analysis revealed multitype biallelic pathogenic repeat expansions in 15 patients, including (AAGGG)exp/(AAGGG)exp in seven patients, (ACAGG)exp/(ACAGG)exp in three patients, (AAGGG)exp/(ACAGG)exp in four patients, and (AAGGG)exp/(AAAGG)15(AAGGG)exp in one patient. Clinical analysis showed various combinations of cerebellar ataxia, vestibular dysfunction, neuropathy, cognitive decline, autonomic dysfunction, chronic cough, pyramidal tract disorder, parkinsonism, involuntary movement, and muscle fasciculation. Pathological RFC1 repeat expansions account for 1.8% (15/840) of undiagnosed patients with cerebellar ataxia and sporadic/recessive/unclassified inheritance. Screening of RFC1 repeat expansions should be considered in patients with cerebellar ataxia, irrespective of their subtype and onset age.
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- Masahiro Ando
- Department of Neurology and Geriatrics, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, Japan
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- Department of Neurology and Geriatrics, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, Japan
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- Department of Neurology and Geriatrics, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, Japan
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- Department of Neurology and Geriatrics, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, Japan
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- School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan
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- Department of Neurology and Geriatrics, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, Japan
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- Department of Neurology and Geriatrics, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, Japan
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- Department of Neurology and Geriatrics, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, Japan
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- Department of Neurology and Geriatrics, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, Japan
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- Department of Neurology and Geriatrics, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, Japan
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- Department of Neurology and Geriatrics, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, Japan
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- Department of Neurology and Geriatrics, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, Japan
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- Department of Neurology and Geriatrics, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, Japan
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- Department of Neurology and Geriatrics, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, Japan
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- Department of Neurology and Geriatrics, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, Japan
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- Department of Neurology and Geriatrics, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, Japan
- Department of Physical Therapy, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan
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- Department of Neurology and Clinical Pharmacology, Ehime University Hospital, Ehime, Japan
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- Department of Neurology and Geriatrics, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, Japan
- *Correspondence: Hiroshi Takashima
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Buikstra JE, DeWitte SN, Agarwal SC, Baker BJ, Bartelink EJ, Berger E, Blevins KE, Bolhofner K, Boutin AT, Brickley MB, Buzon MR, de la Cova C, Goldstein L, Gowland R, Grauer AL, Gregoricka LA, Halcrow SE, Hall SA, Hillson S, Kakaliouras AM, Klaus HD, Knudson KJ, Knüsel CJ, Larsen CS, Martin DL, Milner GR, Novak M, Nystrom KC, Pacheco-Forés SI, Prowse TL, Robbins Schug G, Roberts CA, Rothwell JE, Santos AL, Stojanowski C, Stone AC, Stull KE, Temple DH, Torres CM, Toyne JM, Tung TA, Ullinger J, Wiltschke-Schrotta K, Zakrzewski SR. Twenty-first century bioarchaeology: Taking stock and moving forward. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 2022; 178 Suppl 74:54-114. [PMID: 36790761 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2021] [Revised: 01/20/2022] [Accepted: 01/29/2022] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
Abstract
This article presents outcomes from a Workshop entitled "Bioarchaeology: Taking Stock and Moving Forward," which was held at Arizona State University (ASU) on March 6-8, 2020. Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the School of Human Evolution and Social Change (ASU), and the Center for Bioarchaeological Research (CBR, ASU), the Workshop's overall goal was to explore reasons why research proposals submitted by bioarchaeologists, both graduate students and established scholars, fared disproportionately poorly within recent NSF Anthropology Program competitions and to offer advice for increasing success. Therefore, this Workshop comprised 43 international scholars and four advanced graduate students with a history of successful grant acquisition, primarily from the United States. Ultimately, we focused on two related aims: (1) best practices for improving research designs and training and (2) evaluating topics of contemporary significance that reverberate through history and beyond as promising trajectories for bioarchaeological research. Among the former were contextual grounding, research question/hypothesis generation, statistical procedures appropriate for small samples and mixed qualitative/quantitative data, the salience of Bayesian methods, and training program content. Topical foci included ethics, social inequality, identity (including intersectionality), climate change, migration, violence, epidemic disease, adaptability/plasticity, the osteological paradox, and the developmental origins of health and disease. Given the profound changes required globally to address decolonization in the 21st century, this concern also entered many formal and informal discussions.
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- Jane E Buikstra
- Center for Bioarchaeological Research, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
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- Center for Bioarchaeological Research, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, California State University, Chico, California, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside, California, USA
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- School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences, New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Anthropology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Sociology, Anthropology, & Social Work, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, USA
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- Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Center for Bioarchaeological Research, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
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- Institute of Archaeology, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Anthropology, Whittier College, Whittier, California, USA
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- Department of Sociology and Anthropology, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
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- Center for Bioarchaeological Research, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
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- Préhistoire à l'Actuel: Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie, University of Bordeaux, CNRS, MC, PACEA, UMR5199, F-33615, Pessac, France
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Center for Applied Bioanthropology, Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Anthropology, State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, New York, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Environmental Health Program, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
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- Center for Bioarchaeological Research, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
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- Research Centre for Anthropology and Health (CIAS), Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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- Center for Bioarchaeological Research, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
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- Center for Bioarchaeological Research, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada, USA
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- Department of Sociology and Anthropology, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
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- Department of Anthropology and Heritage Studies, University of California, Merced, USA, and Instituto de Arqueología y Antropología, Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Bioanthropology Research Institute, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, Connecticut, USA
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Kozhar O, Kim M, Ibarra Caballero J, Klopfenstein NB, Cannon PG, Stewart JE. Long evolutionary history of an emerging fungal pathogen of diverse tree species in eastern Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. Mol Ecol 2022; 31:2013-2031. [DOI: 10.1111/mec.16384] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2021] [Revised: 01/27/2022] [Accepted: 01/31/2022] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Olga Kozhar
- Colorado State University Fort Collins CO USA
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- USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station Corvallis OR USA
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- USDA Forest Service Forest Health Protection Vallejo CA USA
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Patel SG, Buchanan CM, Mulroy E, Simpson M, Reid HA, Drake KM, Merriman ME, Phipps-Green A, Cadzow M, Merriman TR, Anderson NE, Child N, Barber PA, Roxburgh RH. Potential PINK1 Founder Effect in Polynesia Causing Early-Onset Parkinson's Disease. Mov Disord 2021; 36:2199-2200. [PMID: 34159639 DOI: 10.1002/mds.28665] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2021] [Revised: 04/27/2021] [Accepted: 05/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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- Auckland Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand.,Department of Clinical and Movement Neurosciences, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom
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- Canterbury Health Laboratories, Christchurch, New Zealand
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- Canterbury Health Laboratories, Christchurch, New Zealand
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- Biochemistry Department, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Biochemistry Department, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.,Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
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- Auckland Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand.,Centre for Brain Research Neurogenetics Research Clinic, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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The first quantitative assessment of radiocarbon chronologies for initial pottery in Island Southeast Asia supports multi-directional Neolithic dispersal. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0251407. [PMID: 34077445 PMCID: PMC8171956 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0251407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2020] [Accepted: 04/27/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Neolithization, or the Holocene demographic expansion of farming populations, accounts for significant changes in human and animal biology, artifacts, languages, and cultures across the earth. For Island Southeast Asia, the orthodox Out of Taiwan hypothesis proposes that Neolithic expansion originated from Taiwan with populations moving south into Island Southeast Asia, while the Western Route Migration hypothesis suggests the earliest farming populations entered from Mainland Southeast Asia in the west. These hypotheses are also linked to competing explanations of the Austronesian expansion, one of the most significant population dispersals in the ancient world that influenced human and environmental diversity from Madagascar to Easter Island and Hawai‘i to New Zealand. The fundamental archaeological test of the Out of Taiwan and Western Route Migration hypotheses is the geographic and chronological distribution of initial pottery assemblages, but these data have never been quantitatively analyzed. Using radiocarbon determinations from 20 archaeological sites, we present a Bayesian chronological analysis of initial pottery deposition in Island Southeast Asia and western Near Oceania. Both site-scale and island-scale Bayesian models were produced in Oxcal using radiocarbon determinations that are most confidently associated with selected target events. Our results indicate multi-directional Neolithic dispersal in Island Southeast Asia, with the earliest pottery contemporaneously deposited in western Borneo and the northern Philippines. This work supports emerging research that identifies separate processes of biological, linguistic, and material culture change in Island Southeast Asia.
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McDonald SK, Matisoo-Smith EA, Buckley HR, Walter RK, Aung HL, Collins CJ, Cook GM, Kardailsky O, Krause J, Knapp M. 'TB or not TB': the conundrum of pre-European contact tuberculosis in the Pacific. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2020; 375:20190583. [PMID: 33012234 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Tuberculosis (TB) is a major global health threat, infecting one-third of the world's population. Despite this prominence, the age, origin and spread of the disease have been topics of contentious debate. Molecular studies suggest that Mycobacterium tuberculosis 'sensu stricto', the most common strain of TB infecting humans today, originated in Africa and from there spread into Europe and Asia. The M. tuberculosis strains most commonly found across the Pacific and the Americas today are most closely related to European strains, supporting a hypothesis that the disease only reached these regions relatively recently via European sailors or settlers. However, this hypothesis is inconsistent with palaeopathological evidence of TB-like lesions in human remains from across the Pacific that predate European contact. Similarly, genetic evidence from pre-European South American mummies challenges the notion of a European introduction of the disease into the Pacific. Here, we review the complex evidence for the age and origin of TB in the Pacific, and discuss key gaps in our knowledge and how these may be addressed. This article is part of the theme issue 'Insights into health and disease from ancient biomolecules'.
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- S K McDonald
- Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand.,Archaeology Programme, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand
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- Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand
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- Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand
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- Archaeology Programme, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand.,School of Social Science, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand
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- Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand
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- Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand
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- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand
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Harris DN, Kessler MD, Shetty AC, Weeks DE, Minster RL, Browning S, Cochrane EE, Deka R, Hawley NL, Reupena MS, Naseri T, McGarvey ST, O'Connor TD. Evolutionary history of modern Samoans. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:9458-9465. [PMID: 32291332 PMCID: PMC7196816 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1913157117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Archaeological studies estimate the initial settlement of Samoa at 2,750 to 2,880 y ago and identify only limited settlement and human modification to the landscape until about 1,000 to 1,500 y ago. At this point, a complex history of migration is thought to have begun with the arrival of people sharing ancestry with Near Oceanic groups (i.e., Austronesian-speaking and Papuan-speaking groups), and was then followed by the arrival of non-Oceanic groups during European colonialism. However, the specifics of this peopling are not entirely clear from the archaeological and anthropological records, and is therefore a focus of continued debate. To shed additional light on the Samoan population history that this peopling reflects, we employ a population genetic approach to analyze 1,197 Samoan high-coverage whole genomes. We identify population splits between the major Samoan islands and detect asymmetrical gene flow to the capital city. We also find an extreme bottleneck until about 1,000 y ago, which is followed by distinct expansions across the islands and subsequent bottlenecks consistent with European colonization. These results provide for an increased understanding of Samoan population history and the dynamics that inform it, and also demonstrate how rapid demographic processes can shape modern genomes.
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- Daniel N Harris
- Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201
- Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201
- Program in Personalized and Genomic Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201
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- Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201
- Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201
- Program in Personalized and Genomic Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201
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- Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201
- Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201
- Program in Personalized and Genomic Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201
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- Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261
- Department of Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261
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- Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195
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- Anthropology, The University of Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
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- Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45267
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- Department of Epidemiology (Chronic Disease), Yale University School of Public Health, New Haven, CT 06520
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- Ministry of Health, Government of Samoa, Apia, Samoa 663030
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- International Health Institute, Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, RI 02912
- Department of Anthropology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912
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- Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201;
- Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201
- Program in Personalized and Genomic Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201
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Chung NN, Jacobs GS, Sudoyo H, Malik SG, Chew LY, Lansing JS, Cox MP. Sex-linked genetic diversity originates from persistent sociocultural processes at microgeographic scales. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE 2019; 6:190733. [PMID: 31598251 PMCID: PMC6731738 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.190733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2019] [Accepted: 07/26/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Population genetics has been successful at identifying the relationships between human groups and their interconnected histories. However, the link between genetic demography inferred at large scales and the individual human behaviours that ultimately generate that demography is not always clear. While anthropological and historical context are routinely presented as adjuncts in population genetic studies to help describe the past, determining how underlying patterns of human sociocultural behaviour impact genetics still remains challenging. Here, we analyse patterns of genetic variation in village-scale samples from two islands in eastern Indonesia, patrilocal Sumba and a matrilocal region of Timor. Adopting a 'process modelling' approach, we iteratively explore combinations of structurally different models as a thinking tool. We find interconnected socio-genetic interactions involving sex-biased migration, lineage-focused founder effects, and on Sumba, heritable social dominance. Strikingly, founder ideology, a cultural model derived from anthropological and archaeological studies at larger regional scales, has both its origins and impact at the scale of villages. Process modelling lets us explore these complex interactions, first by circumventing the complexity of formal inference when studying large datasets with many interacting parts, and then by explicitly testing complex anthropological hypotheses about sociocultural behaviour from a more familiar population genetic standpoint.
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- Ning Ning Chung
- Complexity Institute, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Centre for University Core, Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore
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- Complexity Institute, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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- Genome Diversity and Diseases Laboratory, Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Jakarta, Indonesia
- Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
- Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
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- Genome Diversity and Diseases Laboratory, Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Complexity Institute, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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- Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
- Stockholm Resilience Center, Kräftriket, 10405 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North 4410, New Zealand
- Te Pūnaha Matatini, Centre of Research Excellence for Complex Systems, Aukland, New Zealand
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Olivares G, Peña-Ahumada B, Peñailillo J, Payacán C, Moncada X, Saldarriaga-Córdoba M, Matisoo-Smith E, Chung KF, Seelenfreund D, Seelenfreund A. Human mediated translocation of Pacific paper mulberry [Broussonetia papyrifera (L.) L'Hér. ex Vent. (Moraceae)]: Genetic evidence of dispersal routes in Remote Oceania. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0217107. [PMID: 31216291 PMCID: PMC6583976 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0217107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2019] [Accepted: 05/01/2019] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Paper mulberry, Broussonetia papyrifera (L.) L’Hér. ex Vent. (Moraceae), a dioecious species, was transported by humans from Taiwan to the islands of Remote Oceania. Its introduction and cultivation in Remote Oceania was intentional due to its cultural importance as a fiber source for barkcloth textiles. The aim of this study was to explore the genetic diversity and structure of paper mulberry populations within Remote Oceania in order to infer dispersal patterns that may reflect past human interaction among island groups. We present the integrated analysis of 380 samples (313 contemporary and 67 herbarium specimens) collected in Near and Remote Oceania. Genetic characterization was based on a set of ten microsatellites developed for B. papyrifera and complemented with the analysis of the ribosomal internal transcribed spacer ITS-1 sequence, a sex marker and the chloroplast ndhF–rpl32 intergenic spacer. Microsatellite data identify a total of 64 genotypes, despite this being a clonally propagated crop, and show three major dispersal hubs within Remote Oceania, centered on the islands of Fiji, Tonga, and Pitcairn. Of 64 genotypes identified, 55 correspond to genotypes associated to female-sexed plants that probably descend from plants introduced by the prehistoric Austronesian-speaking voyagers. The ratio of accessions to genotypes between herbarium and contemporary samples, suggests recent loss of genetic diversity. In addition to the chloroplast haplotypes described previously, we detected two new haplotypes within Remote Oceania both originating in Taiwan. This is the first study of a commensal species to show genetic structuring within Remote Oceania. In spite of the genetic bottleneck, the presence of only one sex, a timespan of less than 5000 years, and asexual propagation of this crop in Remote Oceania, we detect genetic diversity and regional structuring. These observations suggest specific migration routes between island groups within Remote Oceania.
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- Gabriela Olivares
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Centro de Investigación en Recursos Naturales y Sustentabilidad, Universidad Bernardo O’Higgins, Santiago, Chile
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- Research Museum and Herbarium (HAST), Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
- * E-mail: (DS); (AS)
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- Escuela de Antropología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano, Santiago, Chile
- * E-mail: (DS); (AS)
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Blom MPK, Matzke NJ, Bragg JG, Arida E, Austin CC, Backlin AR, Carretero MA, Fisher RN, Glaw F, Hathaway SA, Iskandar DT, McGuire JA, Karin BR, Reilly SB, Rittmeyer EN, Rocha S, Sanchez M, Stubbs AL, Vences M, Moritz C. Habitat preference modulates trans-oceanic dispersal in a terrestrial vertebrate. Proc Biol Sci 2019; 286:20182575. [PMID: 31161911 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2018.2575] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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The importance of long-distance dispersal (LDD) in shaping geographical distributions has been debated since the nineteenth century. In terrestrial vertebrates, LDD events across large water bodies are considered highly improbable, but organismal traits affecting dispersal capacity are generally not taken into account. Here, we focus on a recent lizard radiation and combine a summary-coalescent species tree based on 1225 exons with a probabilistic model that links dispersal capacity to an evolving trait, to investigate whether ecological specialization has influenced the probability of trans-oceanic dispersal. Cryptoblepharus species that occur in coastal habitats have on average dispersed 13 to 14 times more frequently than non-coastal species and coastal specialization has, therefore, led to an extraordinarily widespread distribution that includes multiple continents and distant island archipelagoes. Furthermore, their presence across the Pacific substantially predates the age of human colonization and we can explicitly reject the possibility that these patterns are solely shaped by human-mediated dispersal. Overall, by combining new analytical methods with a comprehensive phylogenomic dataset, we use a quantitative framework to show how coastal specialization can influence dispersal capacity and eventually shape geographical distributions at a macroevolutionary scale.
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- Mozes P K Blom
- 1 Research School of Biology, The Australian National University , Canberra , Australia.,2 Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung , Berlin , Germany
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- 1 Research School of Biology, The Australian National University , Canberra , Australia.,3 School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland , Auckland , New Zealand
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- 1 Research School of Biology, The Australian National University , Canberra , Australia
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- 4 Research Center for Biology, The Indonesian Institute of Sciences , Cibinong , Indonesia
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- 6 U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center , Santa Ana, CA , USA
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- 8 U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center , San Diego, CA , USA
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- 9 Department of Herpetology, Zoologische Staatssamlung Münich , Munich , Germany
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- 8 U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center , San Diego, CA , USA
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- 10 School of Life Sciences and Technology, Institut Teknologi , Bandung , Indonesia
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- 11 Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley , Berkeley, CA , USA
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- 11 Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley , Berkeley, CA , USA
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- 11 Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley , Berkeley, CA , USA
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- 1 Research School of Biology, The Australian National University , Canberra , Australia.,5 Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University , Baton Rouge, LA , USA
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- 12 Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Immunology & Biomedical Research Center (CINBIO), University of Vigo , Vigo , Spain
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- 11 Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley , Berkeley, CA , USA
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- 14 Zoological Institute, Technische Universität Braunschweig , Braunschweig , Germany
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- 1 Research School of Biology, The Australian National University , Canberra , Australia
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Matisoo-Smith E, Gosling AL. Walking backwards into the future: the need for a holistic evolutionary approach in Pacific health research. Ann Hum Biol 2018; 45:175-187. [PMID: 29877149 DOI: 10.1080/03014460.2018.1448889] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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CONTEXT The Pacific region has had a complex human history. It has been subject to multiple major human dispersal and colonisation events, including some of the earliest Out-of-Africa migrations, the so-called Austronesian expansion of people out of Island Southeast Asia, and the more recent arrival of Europeans. Despite models of island isolation, evidence suggests significant levels of interconnectedness that vary in direction and frequency over time. The Pacific Ocean covers a vast area and its islands provide an array of different physical environments with variable pathogen loads and subsistence opportunities. These diverse environments likely caused Pacific peoples to adapt (both genetically and culturally) in unique ways. Differences in genetic background, in combination with adaptation, likely affect their susceptibility to non-communicable diseases. OBJECTIVES Here we provide an overview of some of the key issues in the natural and human history of the Pacific region which are likely to impact human health. We argue that understanding the evolutionary and cultural history of Pacific peoples is essential for the generation of testable hypotheses surrounding potential causes of elevated disease susceptibility among Pacific peoples.
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- a Department of Anatomy , University of Otago , Dunedin , New Zealand.,b Department of Biochemistry , University of Otago , Dunedin , New Zealand
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West K, Collins C, Kardailsky O, Kahn J, Hunt TL, Burley DV, Matisoo-Smith E. The Pacific Rat Race to Easter Island: Tracking the Prehistoric Dispersal of Rattus exulans Using Ancient Mitochondrial Genomes. Front Ecol Evol 2017. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2017.00052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Genomic insights into the peopling of the Southwest Pacific. Nature 2016; 538:510-513. [PMID: 27698418 PMCID: PMC5515717 DOI: 10.1038/nature19844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 135] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2016] [Accepted: 09/13/2016] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The appearance of people associated with the Lapita culture in the South Pacific around 3,000 years ago marked the beginning of the last major human dispersal to unpopulated lands. However, the relationship of these pioneers to the long-established Papuan people of the New Guinea region is unclear. Here we present genome-wide ancient DNA data from three individuals from Vanuatu (about 3,100-2,700 years before present) and one from Tonga (about 2,700-2,300 years before present), and analyse them with data from 778 present-day East Asians and Oceanians. Today, indigenous people of the South Pacific harbour a mixture of ancestry from Papuans and a population of East Asian origin that no longer exists in unmixed form, but is a match to the ancient individuals. Most analyses have interpreted the minimum of twenty-five per cent Papuan ancestry in the region today as evidence that the first humans to reach Remote Oceania, including Polynesia, were derived from population mixtures near New Guinea, before their further expansion into Remote Oceania. However, our finding that the ancient individuals had little to no Papuan ancestry implies that later human population movements spread Papuan ancestry through the South Pacific after the first peopling of the islands.
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Peñailillo J, Olivares G, Moncada X, Payacán C, Chang CS, Chung KF, Matthews PJ, Seelenfreund A, Seelenfreund D. Sex Distribution of Paper Mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera) in the Pacific. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0161148. [PMID: 27529483 PMCID: PMC4986985 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0161148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2016] [Accepted: 08/01/2016] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Background Paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera (L.) L'Hér. ex Vent) is a dioecious tree native to East Asia and mainland Southeast-Asia, introduced prehistorically to Polynesia as a source of bark fiber by Austronesian-speaking voyagers. In Oceania, trees are coppiced and harvested for production of bark-cloth, so flowering is generally unknown. A survey of botanical records of paper mulberry revealed a distributional disjunction: the tree is apparently absent in Borneo and the Philippines. A subsequent study of chloroplast haplotypes linked paper mulberry of Remote Oceania directly to a population in southern Taiwan, distinct from known populations in mainland Southeast-Asia. Methodology We describe the optimization and use of a DNA marker designed to identify sex in paper mulberry. We used this marker to determine the sex distribution in selected localities across Asia, Near and Remote Oceania. We also characterized all samples using the ribosomal internal transcribed spacer sequence (ITS) in order to relate results to a previous survey of ITS diversity. Results In Near and Remote Oceania, contemporary paper mulberry plants are all female with the exception of Hawaii, where plants of both sexes are found. In its natural range in Asia, male and female plants are found, as expected. Male plants in Hawaii display an East Asian ITS genotype, consistent with modern introduction, while females in Remote Oceania share a distinctive variant. Conclusions Most paper mulberry plants now present in the Pacific appear to be descended from female clones introduced prehistorically. In Hawaii, the presence of male and female plants is thought to reflect a dual origin, one a prehistoric female introduction and the other a modern male introduction by Japanese/Chinese immigrants. If only female clones were dispersed from a source-region in Taiwan, this may explain the absence of botanical records and breeding populations in the Philippines and Borneo, and Remote Oceania.
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- Johany Peñailillo
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Áridas (CEAZA), La Serena, Chile
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Nangang, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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- Escuela de Antropología, Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano, Santiago, Chile
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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Morozova I, Flegontov P, Mikheyev AS, Bruskin S, Asgharian H, Ponomarenko P, Klyuchnikov V, ArunKumar G, Prokhortchouk E, Gankin Y, Rogaev E, Nikolsky Y, Baranova A, Elhaik E, Tatarinova TV. Toward high-resolution population genomics using archaeological samples. DNA Res 2016; 23:295-310. [PMID: 27436340 PMCID: PMC4991838 DOI: 10.1093/dnares/dsw029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2015] [Accepted: 05/22/2016] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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The term ‘ancient DNA’ (aDNA) is coming of age, with over 1,200 hits in the PubMed database, beginning in the early 1980s with the studies of ‘molecular paleontology’. Rooted in cloning and limited sequencing of DNA from ancient remains during the pre-PCR era, the field has made incredible progress since the introduction of PCR and next-generation sequencing. Over the last decade, aDNA analysis ushered in a new era in genomics and became the method of choice for reconstructing the history of organisms, their biogeography, and migration routes, with applications in evolutionary biology, population genetics, archaeogenetics, paleo-epidemiology, and many other areas. This change was brought by development of new strategies for coping with the challenges in studying aDNA due to damage and fragmentation, scarce samples, significant historical gaps, and limited applicability of population genetics methods. In this review, we describe the state-of-the-art achievements in aDNA studies, with particular focus on human evolution and demographic history. We present the current experimental and theoretical procedures for handling and analysing highly degraded aDNA. We also review the challenges in the rapidly growing field of ancient epigenomics. Advancement of aDNA tools and methods signifies a new era in population genetics and evolutionary medicine research.
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- Irina Morozova
- Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic Bioinformatics Center, A.A. Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation
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- Ecology and Evolution Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Okinawa, Japan
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- Vavilov Institute of General Genetics RAS, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Computational and Molecular Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Center for Personalized Medicine, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA Spatial Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Research Center of Biotechnology RAS, Moscow, Russia Department of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
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- Vavilov Institute of General Genetics RAS, Moscow, Russia University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA
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- Vavilov Institute of General Genetics RAS, Moscow, Russia F1 Genomics, San Diego, CA, USA School of Systems Biology, George Mason University, VA, USA
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- School of Systems Biology, George Mason University, VA, USA Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Moscow, Russia Atlas Biomed Group, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Animal & Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK
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- Bioinformatics Center, A.A. Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation Center for Personalized Medicine, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA Spatial Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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We review studies of genomic data obtained by sequencing hominin fossils with particular emphasis on the unique information that ancient DNA (aDNA) can provide about the demographic history of humans and our closest relatives. We concentrate on nuclear genomic sequences that have been published in the past few years. In many cases, particularly in the Arctic, the Americas, and Europe, aDNA has revealed historical demographic patterns in a way that could not be resolved by analyzing present-day genomes alone. Ancient DNA from archaic hominins has revealed a rich history of admixture between early modern humans, Neanderthals, and Denisovans, and has allowed us to disentangle complex selective processes. Information from aDNA studies is nowhere near saturation, and we believe that future aDNA sequences will continue to change our understanding of hominin history.
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- Montgomery Slatkin
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3140
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3140
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Willermet C. Biological Anthropology in 2015: Open Access, Biocultural Interactions, and Social Change. AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST 2016. [DOI: 10.1111/aman.12529] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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- Cathy Willermet
- Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work; Central Michigan University; Mount Pleasant MI 48859
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Pacifiplex : an ancestry-informative SNP panel centred on Australia and the Pacific region. Forensic Sci Int Genet 2016; 20:71-80. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2015.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2015] [Revised: 09/22/2015] [Accepted: 10/06/2015] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Early Lapita skeletons from Vanuatu show Polynesian craniofacial shape: Implications for Remote Oceanic settlement and Lapita origins. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2015; 113:292-7. [PMID: 26712019 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1516186113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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With a cultural and linguistic origin in Island Southeast Asia the Lapita expansion is thought to have led ultimately to the Polynesian settlement of the east Polynesian region after a time of mixing/integration in north Melanesia and a nearly 2,000-y pause in West Polynesia. One of the major achievements of recent Lapita research in Vanuatu has been the discovery of the oldest cemetery found so far in the Pacific at Teouma on the south coast of Efate Island, opening up new prospects for the biological definition of the early settlers of the archipelago and of Remote Oceania in general. Using craniometric evidence from the skeletons in conjunction with archaeological data, we discuss here four debated issues: the Lapita-Asian connection, the degree of admixture, the Lapita-Polynesian connection, and the question of secondary population movement into Remote Oceania.
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Tracking Austronesian expansion into the Pacific via the paper mulberry plant. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2015; 112:13432-3. [PMID: 26499243 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1518576112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Our understanding of human evolutionary and population history can be advanced by ecological and evolutionary studies of our parasites. Many parasites flourish only in the presence of very specific human behaviors and in specific habitats, are wholly dependent on us, and have evolved with us for thousands or millions of years. Therefore, by asking when and how we first acquired those parasites, under which environmental and cultural conditions we are the most susceptible, and how the parasites have evolved and adapted to us and we in response to them, we can gain considerable insight into our own evolutionary history. As examples, the tapeworm life cycle is dependent on our consumption of meat, the divergence of body and head lice may have been subsequent to the development of clothing, and malaria hyperendemicity may be associated with agriculture. Thus, the evolutionary and population histories of these parasites are likely intertwined with critical aspects of human biology and culture. Here I review the mechanics of these and multiple other parasite proxies for human evolutionary history and discuss how they currently complement our fossil, archeological, molecular, linguistic, historical, and ethnographic records. I also highlight potential future applications of this promising model for the field of evolutionary anthropology.
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Perry GH, Orlando L. Ancient DNA and human evolution. J Hum Evol 2015; 79:1-3. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2014.12.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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