Although dramatic amphibian population declines have been reported worldwide, our
understanding of the extent of the declines in Latin America, where amphibian diversity is high, is …

The accidental amplification of nuclear mitochondrial pseudogenes (NUMTs) can pose a
serious problem for mitochondrial disease studies. This report shows that the mutation …

… ; nevertheless, if the sample size is not representative, they bias the frequency estimation,
and more importantly, the conclusions derived from these estimates (Egeland and Salas, …

Only a limited number of complete mitochondrial genome sequences belonging to Native
American haplogroups were available until recently, which left America as the continent with …

… Salas), and literature for sequences (partially) matching the D1 motif, we identified two major
subsets of D1 mtDNAs that could not be assigned to any known D1 subhaplogroup of the …

When using a standard battery of STRs for relationship testing a small proportion of analyses
can give ambiguous results – where the claimed relationship cannot be confirmed by a …

Tests that infer the ancestral origin of a DNA sample have considerable potential in the
development of forensic tools that can help to guide crime investigation. We have developed a …

We sequenced the genomes of a ∼7,000-year-old farmer from Germany and eight ∼8,000-year-old
hunter-gatherers from Luxembourg and Sweden. We analysed these and other …

The 11-M Madrid commuter train bombings of 2004 constituted the second biggest terrorist
attack to occur in Europe after Lockerbie, while the subsequent investigation became the …

Between 1500 and 1850, more than 12 million enslaved Africans were transported to the
New World. The vast majority were shipped from West and West-Central Africa, but their …