Torsten Günther

This study re-evaluates AMY1 copy number evolution using ancestry-aware models and finds demographic history, not diet, drives global variation.

This study analyzes ancient Iberian sheep genomes to show how human activities shaped their genetic diversity over 7,000 years, including maritime introduction, Steppe ancestry influx, and Roman-era expansion.

This study improves allele frequency and ancestry proportion estimation by adjusting genotype likelihoods to reduce mapping bias in ancient DNA sequencing.

This study analyzes ancient and modern Iberian cattle genomes to trace the extent and timing of aurochs hybridization and its implications for cattle domestication and management.

This study compares the evolutionary trajectories of two Daphnia pulicaria populations in lakes with different environmental histories using resurrection ecology and SNP genotyping, finding divergent patterns of selection and gene-environment correlations.

This study analyzes the population history and genetic diversity of Anatolian and Cyprian mouflons compared to other sheep lineages, finding genetic affinity with domestic sheep and disparities in diversity and mutation load.

READv2 improves ancient DNA relatedness analysis by being faster, more accurate, and easier to use than previous methods.

This study uses whole-genome sequences of 63 sheep breeds and wild relatives to reconstruct the demographic history of Western sheep, finding a domestication event around 9000 years ago and a westward expansion around 5000 years ago.

This study analyzes ancient sheep genomes from the Baltic Sea region to show long-term continuity of short-tailed breeds and loss of genetic diversity in modern times.

The paper imputes Pictish genomes and analyzes their genetic relationships with ancient and modern UK populations, revealing continuity and structure.

The paper reports ancient DNA from a 2,700-year-old goitered gazelle, confirming Iron Age hunting of the species in Central Asia and providing the first nuclear DNA sequences for this gazelle.

This study presents the first genomic analysis of early Islamic burials in the Levant, finding genomic similarity to modern Bedouins and Saudis rather than neighboring Levantine groups.

This paper shows reference bias affects ancient DNA studies and suggests filtering strategies to reduce its impact on population genomic analyses.

This paper introduces SUGIBS, a robust genome-wide ancestry inference method, and applies it to predict ancestry faces using the 1000 Genomes Project and facial imaging data.

The paper develops a tool to estimate genetic kin relationships in prehistoric populations using degraded ancient DNA data, revealing previously unknown family ties.

The paper analyzes genomic data from Mesolithic Scandinavians to show two colonization routes and genetic adaptations to high-latitude environments.

The paper analyzes ancient genomes from southern Africa to show that modern human divergence occurred over 260,000 years ago, pushing back previous estimates and linking it to the Middle Stone Age and anatomical changes in the fossil record.

The paper responds to criticism of male-biased admixture estimates from Bronze Age migrations by analyzing X-chromosomal and autosomal ancestry in ancient samples.

The paper uses ancient genomic data to show that cultural and lifestyle factors, rather than geography, shaped genomic differentiation in prehistoric Europe.