Elmira Mohandesan, BSc MSc PhD
T: +43-1-4277-54716
Summer term 2021
300184 UE Topics in Paleogenomics
Summer term 2020
300184 UE Topics in Paleogenomics
Fitak, R. R., Mohandesan, E., Corander, J., Yadamsuren, A., Chuluunbat, B., Abdelhadi, O., Raziq, A., Nagy, P., Walzer, C., Faye, B., & Burger, P. A. (2020). Genomic signatures of domestication in Old World camels. Communications Biology, 3(1), 316. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-1039-5
Mohandesan, E., Fitak, R. R., Corander, J., Yadamsuren, A., Chuluunbat, B., Abdelhadi, O., Raziq, A., Nagy, P., Stalder, G., Walzer, C., Faye, B., & Burger, P. A. (2017). Mitogenome Sequencing in the Genus Camelus Reveals Evidence for Purifying Selection and Long-term Divergence between Wild and Domestic Bactrian Camels. Scientific Reports, 7, [9970]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08995-8
Mohandesan, E., Speller, C. F., Peters, J., Uerpmann, H-P., Uerpmann, M., De Cupere, B., Hofreiter, M., & Burger, P. A. (2017). Combined hybridization capture and shotgun sequencing for ancient DNA analysis of extinct wild and domestic dromedary camel. Molecular Ecology Resources, 17(2), 300-313. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.12551
Almathen, F., Charruau, P., Mohandesan, E., Mwacharo, J. M., Orozco-terWengel, P., Pitt, D., Abdussamad, A. M., Uerpmann, M., Uerpmann, H-P., De Cupere, B., Magee, P., Alnaqeeb, M. A., Salim, B., Raziq, A., Dessie, T., Abdelhadi, O. M., Banabazi, M. H., Al-Eknah, M., Walzer, C., ... Burger, P. A. (2016). Ancient and modern DNA reveal dynamics of domestication and cross-continental dispersal of the dromedary. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 113(24), 6707-12. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1519508113
Fitak, R. R., Mohandesan, E., Corander, J., & Burger, P. A. (2016). The de novo genome assembly and annotation of a female domestic dromedary of North African origin. Molecular Ecology Resources, 16(1), 314-24. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.12443
Plasil, M., Mohandesan, E., Fitak, R. R., Musilova, P., Kubickova, S., Burger, P. A., & Horin, P. (2016). The major histocompatibility complex in Old World camelids and low polymorphism of its class II genes. BMC Genomics, 17, 167. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-016-2500-1
Ruiz, E., Mohandesan, E., Fitak, R. R., & Burger, P. A. (2015). Diagnostic single nucleotide polymorphism markers to identify hybridization between dromedary and Bactrian camels. Conservation Genetics Resources, 7(2), 329-332. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12686-015-0420-z
Mohandesan, E., Subramanian, S., Millar, C. D., & Lambert, D. M. (2015). Complete mitochondrial genomes of Tuatara endemic to different islands of New Zealand. Mitochondrial DNA Part A, 26(1), 25-6. https://doi.org/10.3109/19401736.2013.840613
Galik, A., Mohandesan, E., Forstenpointner, G., Scholz, U. M., Ruiz, E., Krenn, M., & Burger, P. (2015). A sunken ship of the desert at the river Danube in Tulln, Austria. PLoS ONE, 10(4), [e0121235]. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0121235
Subramanian, S., Mohandesan, E., Millar, C. D., & Lambert, D. M. (2015). Distance-dependent patterns of molecular divergences in Tuatara mitogenomes. Scientific Reports, 5, 8703. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep08703
Stiller, M., Molak, M., Prost, S., Rabeder, G., Baryshnikov, G., Rosendahl, W., Münzel, S., Bocherens, H., Grandal-d'Anglade, A., Hilpert, B., Germonpré, M., Stasyk, O., Pinhasi, R., Tintori, A., Rohland, N., Mohandesan, E., Ho, S. Y. W., Hofreiter, M., & Knapp, M. (2014). Mitochondrial DNA diversity and evolution of the Pleistocene cave bear complex. Quaternary International, 339-340, 224-231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.09.023
Gingras, B., Mohandesan, E., Boko, D., & Fitch, W. T. (2013). Phylogenetic signal in the acoustic parameters of the advertisement calls of four clades of anurans. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 13, 134. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-13-134
Mohandesan, E., Prost, S., & Hofreiter, M. (2012). Case study: using a nondestructive DNA extraction method to generate mtDNA sequences from historical chimpanzee specimens. In Humana Press (Vol. 840, pp. 101-10). Methods in Molecular Biology https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-516-9_14
Millar, C. D., Huynen, L., Subramanian, S., Mohandesan, E., & Lambert, D. M. (2008). New developments in ancient genomics. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 23(7), 386-93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2008.04.002
Hay, J. M., Subramanian, S., Millar, C. D., Mohandesan, E., & Lambert, D. M. (2008). Rapid molecular evolution in a living fossil. Trends in Genetics, 24(3), 106-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2007.12.002
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