Paleogenomics Reveals a Loss of Bovine Lineages in Mid-latitude Asia Over the Last 200,000 Years Abstract. Bovines have a complex yet poorly understood evolutionary history that is characterized by admixture and diversity loss during the Late Pleistoce

The Altai wasn’t just home to Denisovans. 🏔️🧬Ancient DNA revealed unexpected bovine diversity 🦬, including a mysterious yak-like lineage (yak "X") now seemingly lost to time.
academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
#MetagenomicsMonday #ancientDNA #aDNA #paleogenomics #zooarchaeology #denisovacave #altai

MALDI Deamidation Score (MDS): A fast and flexible method for assessing deamidation in ZooMS data and its application to the Denisova Cave bone assemblage Estimating deamidation from ZooMS spectra has frequently been achieved using the q2e method due to its high-throughput capacity and ease of use. Despi…

🧬 MALDI Deamidation Score (MDS) — a fast, scalable method for estimating collagen deamidation directly from ZooMS data. Peptide- and sample-level deamidation from team from @cam-archaeology.bsky.social and @unituebingen.bsky.social

#ZooMS #Paleoproteomics #DenisovaCave

Siberia’s ancient ghost clan starts to surrender its secrets A mysterious group of extinct humans known as Denisovans ...

"Siberia’s ancient ghost clan starts to surrender its secrets" - A @nature news feature (with maybe a grain too much drama and mystery for my taste) on the (anyway still exciting) discoveries in southern #Siberia's #DenisovaCave.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00672-2

Siberian Times

#Paleolithic bling: Ostrich eggshell beads from #DenisovaCave. Wait, ostrich? In Siberia?

siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/n0789-... via @siberian_times