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Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Publications 2021 Bokelmann, L., Nickel, O., Maricic, T., Pääbo, S., Meyer, M., Borte, S., & Riesenberg, S. (2021). Point-of-care bulk testing for SARS-CoV-2 by combining hybridization capture with improved colorimetric LAMP. Nature Communications, 12(1): 1467. Choin, J., Mendoza-Revilla, J., Arauna, L. R., Cuadros-Espinoza, S., Cassar, O., Larena, M., Ko, A.-M.-S., Harmant, C., Laurent, R., Verdu, P., Laval, G., Boland, A., Olaso, R., Deleuze, J.-F., Valentin, F., Ko, Y.-C., Jakobsson, M., Gessain, A., Excoffier, L., Stoneking, M., Patin, E., & Quintana-Murci, L. (2021). Genomic insights into population history and biological adaptation in Oceania. Nature, 592(7855), 583-589. Devièse, T., Abrams, G., Hajdinjak, M., Pirson, S., De Groote, I., Di Modica, K., Toussaint, M., Fischer, V., Comeskey, D., Spindler, L., Meyer, M., Semal, P., & Higham, T. (2021). Reevaluating the timing of Neanderthal disappearance in Northwest Europe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(12): e2022466118. Guo, S., Huang, S., Jiang, X., Hu, H., Han, D., Moreno, C. S., Fairbrother, G. L., hughes, D. A., Stoneking, M., & Khaitovich, P. (2021). Variation of microRNA expression in the human placenta driven by population identity and sex of the newborn. BMC Genomics, 22: 286. Hajdinjak, M., Mafessoni, F., Skov, L., Vernot, B., Hübner, A., Fu, Q., Essel, E., Nagel, S., Nickel, B., Richter, J., Moldovan, O. T., Constantin, S., Endarova, E., Zahariev, N., Spasov, R., Welker, F., Smith, G. M., Sinet-Mathiot, V., Paskulin, L., Fewlass, H., Talamo, S., Rezek, Z., Sirakova, S., Sirakov, N., McPherron, S. P., Tsanova, T., Hublin, J.-J., Peter, B., Meyer, M., Skoglund, P., Kelso, J., & Pääbo, S. (2021). Initial Upper Palaeolithic humans in Europe had recent Neanderthal ancestry. Nature, 592, 253-257. Hou, Q.-Q., Xiao, Q., Sun, X.-Y., Ju, X.-C., & Luo, Z.-G. (2021). TBC1D3 promotes neural progenitor proliferation by suppressing the histone methyltransferase G9a. Science Advances, 7: eaba8053. Le Duc, D., Hentschel, J., Neuser, S., Stiller, M., Meier, C., Jäger, E., Abou Jamra, R., Platzer, K., Monecke, A., Ziemer, M., Markovic, A., Bläker, H., & Lemke, J. R. (2021). In cis TP53 and RAD51C pathogenic variants may predispose to sebaceous gland carcinomas. European Journal of Human Genetics, 29, 489-494. Martinón-Torres, M., d’Errico, F., Santos, E., Õlvaro Gallo, A., Amano, N., Archer, W., Armitage, S. J., Arsuaga, J. L., de Castro, B., María, J., Blinkhorn, J., Crowther, A., Douka, K., Dubernet, S., Faulkner, P., Fernández-Colón, P., Kourampas, N., González García, J., Larreina, D., Le Bourdonnec, F.-X., MacLeod, G., Martín-Francés, L., Massilani, D., Mercader, J., Miller, J. M., Ndiema, E., Notario, B., Pitarch Martí, A., Prendergast, M. E., Queffelec, A., Rigaud, S., Roberts, P., Shoaee, M. J., Shipton, C., Simpson, I., Boivin, N., & Petraglia, M. D. (2021). Earliest known human burial in Africa. Nature, 593(7857), 95-100. Mora-Bermúdez, F., Taverna, E., & Huttner, W. B. (2021). From stem and progenitor cells to neurons in the developing neocortex: Key differences among hominids (advance online). The FEBS Journal. Pugach, I., Hübner, A., Hung, H.-c., Meyer, M., Carson, M. T., & Stoneking, M. (2021). Ancient DNA from Guam and the peopling of the Pacific. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(1): e202211211. Reinscheid, R. K., Mafessoni, F., Lüttjohann, A., Jüngling, K., Pape, H.-C., & Schulz, S. (2021). Page 1 of 94 Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Neandertal introgression and accumulation of hypomorphic mutations in the neuropeptide S (NPS) system promote attenuated functionality. Peptides, 138: 170506. Schörnig, M. (2021). Reconstructing ancestral and modern human gene effects on neuronal function. PhD Thesis, Univ., Leipzig. Schörnig, M., & Taverna, E. (2021). A closer look to the evolution of neurons in humans and apes using stem-cell-derived model systems. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 9: 661113. Schörnig, M., Ju, X.-C., Fast, L., Weigert, A., Schaffer, T., Ebert, S., Treutlein, B., Kasri, N. N., Peter, B., Hevers, W., & Taverna, E. (2021). Comparison of induced neurons reveals slower structural and functional maturation in humans than in apes. eLife, 10: e59323. Shull, G., Haffner, C., Huttner, W. B., Taverna, E., & Kodandaramaiah, S. B. (2021). Manipulation of Single Neural Stem Cells and Neurons in Brain Slices using Robotic Microinjection. Journal of Visualized Experiments, 167: e61599. Troitzsch, D., Zhang, H., Dittmann, S., Düsterhöft, D., Möller, T. A., Michel, A.-M., Jänsch, L., Riedel, K., Borrero-de Acuña, J. M., Jahn, D., & Sievers, S. (2021). A point mutation in the transcriptional repressor PerR results in a constitutive oxidative stress response in Clostridioides difficile 630Δerm. mSphere, 6(2): e00091-21. Vernot, B., Zavala, E. I., Gómez-Olivencia, A., Jacobs, Z., Slon, V., Mafessoni, F., Romagné, F., Pearson, A., Petr, M., Sala, N., Pablos, A., Aranburu, A., de Castro, J. M. B., Carbonell, E., Li, B., Krajcarz, M. T., Krivoshapkin, A. I., Kolobova, K. A., Kozlikin, M. B., Shunkov, M. V., Derevianko, A. P., Viola, B., Grote, S., Essel, E., López Herráez, D., Nagel, S., Nickel, B., Richter, J., Schmidt, A., Peter, B., Kelso, J., Roberts, R. G., Arsuaga, J.-L., & Meyer, M. (2021). Unearthing Neanderthal population history using nuclear and mitochondrial DNA from cave sediments. Science, eabf1667. Zeberg, H., & Pääbo, S. (2021). A genomic region associated with protection against severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neandertals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(9): e2026309118. 2020 Bajic, V. (2020). New approaches to investigating sex-biased admixture in southern African populations. PhD Thesis, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig. Balzeau, A., Turq, A., Talamo, S., Daujeard, C., Guérin, G., Welker, F., Crevecoeur, I., Fewlass, H., Hublin, J.-J., Lahaye, C., Maureille, B., Meyer, M., Schwab, C., & Gómez-Olivencia, A. (2020). Pluridisciplinary evidence for burial for the La Ferrassie 8 Neandertal child. Scientific Reports, 10: 21230. Bokelmann, L. (2020). Development of methods for the characterization and retrieval of damaged DNA from ancient biological material. PhD Thesis, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig. Bokelmann, L., Glocke, I., & Meyer, M. (2020). Reconstructing double-stranded DNA fragments on a single-molecule level reveals patterns of degradation in ancient samples. Genome Research, 30(10), 1449-1457. Braadbaart, F., Reidsma, F., Roebroeks, W., Chiotti, L., Slon, V., Meyer, M., Théry-Parisot, I., van Hoesel, A., Nierop, K., Kaal, J., van Os, B., & Marquer, L. (2020). Heating histories and taphonomy of ancient fireplaces: A multi-proxy case study from the Upper Palaeolithic sequence of Abri Pataud (Les Eyzies-de-Tayac, France). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 33: 102468. Cauret, C. M. S., Gansauge, M.-T., Tupper, A. S., Furman, B. L. S., Knytl, M., Song, X., Greenbaum, E., Page 2 of 94 Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Meyer, M., & Evans, B. J. (2020). Developmental systems drift and the drivers of sex chromosome evolution. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 37(3), 799-808. Dannemann, M., He, Z., Heide, C., Vernot, B., Sidow, L., Kanton, S., Weigert, A., Treutlein, B., Pääbo, S., Kelso, J., & Camp, J. G. (2020). Human stem cell resources are an inroad to Neandertal DNA functions. Stem Cell Reports, 15, 214-225. Evans, B. J., Gansauge, M.-T., Tocheri, M. W., Schillaci, M. A., Sutikna, T., Jatmiko, Saptomo, E. W., Klegarth, A., Tosi, A. J., Melnick, D. J., & Meyer, M. (2020). Mitogenomics of macaques (Macaca) across Wallace's Line in the context of modern human dispersals. Journal of Human Evolution, 146: 102852. Fellows Yates, J. A., Andrades Valtueña, A., Vågene, A. J., Cribdon, B., Velsko, I. M., Borry, M., Bravo-López, M. J., Fernandez-Guerra, A., Green, E. J., Ramachandran, S. L., Heintzman, P. D., Spyrou, M. A., Hübner, A., Gancz, A. S., Hider, J., Allshouse, A. F., & Warinner, C. G. (2020). Community-curated and standardised metadata of published ancient metagenomic samples with AncientMetagenomeDir. Scientific Data, 8: 31. Gansauge, M.-T., Aximu-Petri, A., Nagel, S., & Meyer, M. (2020). Manual and automated preparation of single-stranded DNA libraries for the sequencing of DNA from ancient biological remains and other sources of highly degraded DNA. Nature Protocols, 15, 2279-2300. Gunnarsdottir, E. D., & Stoneking, M. (2020). Genetic Landscape of Present-Day Hunter-Gatherer Groups. In T. Güldemann (Ed.), Language of Hunter-Gatherers (pp. 49-75). 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  • Introduction to Dog Behavior

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    Chapter 1 Introduction to dog behavior Julie Hecht1 and Alexandra Horowitz2 1 Department of Psychology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, Horowitz Dog Cognition Lab, Barnard College, New York, USA 2 Department of Psychology, Barnard College, New York, USA those who reacted without fear or aggression to human Domestic dog evolution and behavior approach. Over 40 generations, he had created foxes Dog evolutionary history which looked and acted in many ways like familiar What is a dog? The answer can come in the form of a domestic dogs (Belyaev 1979; Trut 1999). description of the dog’s characteristic behavior, physical For millennia, dogs were bred for use for tasks (e.g. description, or evolutionary history. We will begin with guarding and hunting) or as companions. Quite recently, the latter. The domestic dog, Canis familiaris, is a member in the 19th century, artificial selection began to be of the Canidae family, genus Canis, along with such driven by an interest in creating pure breed lines, for territorial social carnivores as the gray wolf (Canis lupus), show and competition in dog “fancies,” dog shows. the coyote (Canis latrans), and the jackal (e.g., Canis Thus, the diverse array of breeds seen today is a result of aureus and Canis mesomelas). The dog is the only domesti- specific breeding over the last century and a half for cated species of the genus: that is to say, the only canid physical traits and temperament which suited the newly for whom artificial selection (selective breeding) by formed breed “standards” (Garber 1996). While some humans has usurped natural selection as a prime mover current dog breeds resemble ancient representations of of the species.