Prof. Dr. Dr. Verena Schünemann

Ziegler, Ella, Matthes, Katarina L., Middelkamp, Peter W., Schuenemann, Verena J., Althaus, Christian L., Rühli, Frank, & Staub, Kaspar. (2025). Retrospective modelling of the disease and mortality burden of the 1918–1920 influenza pandemic in Zurich, Switzerland [Journal-article]. Epidemics, 50, 100813. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epidem.2025.100813

Pla-Díaz, Marta, Akgül, Gülfirde, Molak, Martyna, du Plessis, Louis, Panagiotopoulou, Hanna, Doan, Karolina, Bogdanowicz, Wiesław, Dąbrowski, Paweł, Oziembłowski, Maciej, Kwiatkowska, Barbara, Szczurowski, Jacek, Grzelak, Joanna, Arora, Natasha, Majander, Kerttu, González-Candelas, Fernando, & Schuenemann, Verena J. (2025). Insights into Treponema pallidum genomics from modern and ancient genomes using a novel mapping strategy [Journal-article]. BMC Biology, 23(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-024-02108-4

Hämmerle, Michelle, Guellil, Meriam, Trgovec-Greif, Lovro, Cheronet, Olivia, Sawyer, Susanna, Ruiz-Gartzia, Irune, Lizano, Esther, Rymbekova, Aigerim, Gelabert, Pere, Bernardi, Paolo, Han, Sojung, Rattei, Thomas, Schuenemann, Verena J., Marques-Bonet, Tomas, Guschanski, Katerina, Calvignac-Spencer, Sebastien, Pinhasi, Ron, & Kuhlwilm, Martin. (2024). Screening great ape museum specimens for DNA viruses [Journal-article]. Scientific Reports, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-80780-w

Rayo, Enrique, Ulrich, Gabriel F., Zemp, Niklaus, Greeff, Michael, Schuenemann, Verena J., Widmer, Alex, & Fischer, Martin C. (2024). Minimally destructive hDNA extraction method for retrospective genetics of pinned historical Lepidoptera specimens [Journal-article]. Scientific Reports, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-63587-7

Urban, Christian, Blom, Alette A., Avanzi, Charlotte, Walker-Meikle, Kathleen, Warren, Alaine K., White-Iribhogbe, Katie, Turle, Ross, Marter, Phil, Dawson-Hobbis, Heidi, Roffey, Simon, Inskip, Sarah A., & Schuenemann, Verena J. (2024). Ancient Mycobacterium leprae genome reveals medieval English red squirrels as animal leprosy host [Journal-article]. Current Biology, 34(10), 2221–2230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.04.006

Wilkin, Shevan, Lanigan, Liam T., Montes, Nuria, Sharma, Mukul, Avanzi, Charlotte, Sejdiu, Donikë, Majander, Kerttu, Pfrengle, Saskia, Chiang, Yun, Kunz, Laura, Dittmann, Antje, Rühli, Frank, Singh, Pushpendra, Coll, Maria Fontanals, Collins, Matthew J., Taurozzi, Alberto J., & Schuenemann, Verena J. (2024). Sequential trypsin and ProAlanase digestions unearth immunological protein biomarkers shrouded by skeletal collagen [Journal-article]. iScience, 27(5), 109663. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.109663

Majander, Kerttu, Pla-Díaz, Marta, du Plessis, Louis, Arora, Natasha, Filippini, Jose, Pezo-Lanfranco, Luis, Eggers, Sabine, González-Candelas, Fernando, & Schuenemann, Verena J. (2024). Redefining the treponemal history through pre-Columbian genomes from Brazil. Nature, 627(8002), 182–188. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06965-x

Menéndez, Lumila Paula, Barbieri, Chiara, López Cruz, Idalia Guadalupe, Schmelzle, Thomas, Breidenstein, Abagail, Barquera, Rodrigo, Borzi, Guido, Schuenemann, Verena J., & Sánchez-Villagra, Marcelo R. (2023). On Roth’s “human fossil” from Baradero, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina: morphological and genetic analysis. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, 142(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-023-00293-3

Wang, Ke, Prüfer, Kay, Krause-Kyora, Ben, Childebayeva, Ainash, Schuenemann, Verena J., Coia, Valentina, Maixner, Frank, Zink, Albert, Schiffels, Stephan, & Krause, Johannes. (2023). High-coverage genome of the Tyrolean Iceman reveals unusually high Anatolian farmer ancestry. Cell Genomics, 3(9). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xgen.2023.100377

Furtwängler, Anja, Baumann, Chris, Majander, Kerttu, Wilkin, Shevan, Tomoum, Nadja, Rühli, Frank, Jaeggi, Adrian V., Eppenberger, Patrick, Bender, Nicole, & Schuenemann, Verena J. (2023). The Mummy Explorer—a self-regulated open-access online teaching tool. Evolution, Medicine and Public Health, 11, 129–138. https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoad009

Loponte, Daniel, Acosta, Alejandro, Gascue, Andrés, Pfrengle, Saskia, Schuenemann, Verena J., Bortolotto, Noelia, Carbonera, Mirian, García Esponda, César, Voglino, Damián, Milheira, Rafael, Ferrari, Alejandro, & Borges, Caroline. (2023). The Southernmost Pre-Columbian Dogs in the Americas: Phenotype, Chronology, Diet and Genetics. Environmental Archaeology, 28, 443–474. https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2021.1922985

Patrono, Livia V., Vrancken, Bram, Budt, Matthias, Düx, Ariane, Lequime, Sebastian, Boral, Sengül, Gilbert, M. Thomas P., Gogarten, Jan F., Hoffmann, Luisa, Horst, David, Merkel, Kevin, Morens, David, Prepoint, Baptiste, Schlotterbeck, Jasmin, Schuenemann, Verena J., Suchard, Marc A., Taubenberger, Jeffery K., Tenkhoff, Luisa, Urban, Christian, et al. (2022). Archival influenza virus genomes from Europe reveal genomic variability during the 1918 pandemic. Nature Communications, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29614-9

Gretzinger, Joscha, Sayer, Duncan, Justeau, Pierre, Altena, Eveline, Pala, Maria, Dulias, Katharina, Edwards, Ceiridwen J., Jodoin, Susanne, Lacher, Laura, Sabin, Susanna, Vågene, Åshild J., Haak, Wolfgang, Ebenesersdóttir, S. Sunna, Moore, Kristjan H. S., Radzeviciute, Rita, Schmidt, Kara, Brace, Selina, Bager, Martina Abenhus, Patterson, Nick, et al. (2022). The Anglo-Saxon migration and the formation of the early English gene pool. Nature, 610(7930), 112–119. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05247-2

Rayo, Enrique, Neukamm, Judith, Tomoum, Nadja, Eppenberger, Patrick, Breidenstein, Abagail, Bouwman, Abigail S., Schuenemann, Verena J., & Rühli, Frank J. (2022). Metagenomic analysis of Ancient Egyptian canopic jars. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 179(2), 307–313. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24600

Schuenemann, Verena J. (2022). Ancient DNA: Pathogens caught in the Minoan labyrinth. Current Biology, 32(16), R886–R889. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.07.032

Bergström, Anders, Stanton, David W. G., Taron, Ulrike H., Frantz, Laurent, Sinding, Mikkel-Holger S., Ersmark, Erik, Pfrengle, Saskia, Cassatt-Johnstone, Molly, Lebrasseur, Ophélie, Girdland-Flink, Linus, Fernandes, Daniel M., Ollivier, Morgane, Speidel, Leo, Gopalakrishnan, Shyam, Westbury, Michael V., Ramos-Madrigal, Jazmin, Feuerborn, Tatiana R., Reiter, Ella, Gretzinger, Joscha, et al. (2022). Grey wolf genomic history reveals a dual ancestry of dogs. Nature, 607(7918), 313–320. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04824-9

Pla-Diáz, Marta, Sánchez-Busó, Leonor, Giacani, Lorenzo, Šmajs, David, Bosshard, Philipp P, Bagheri, Homayoun C, Schuenemann, Verena J, Nieselt, Kay, Arora, Natasha, & González-Candelas, Fernando. (2022). Evolutionary Processes in the Emergence and Recent Spread of the Syphilis Agent, Treponema pallidum. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 39(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msab318

Rayo, Enrique, Ferrari, Giada, Neukamm, Judith, Akgül, Gülfirde, Breidenstein, Abagail M., Cooke, Martyn, Phillips, Carina, Bouwman, Abigail S., Rühli, Frank J., & Schuenemann, Verena J. (2022). Non-destructive extraction of DNA from preserved tissues in medical collections. BioTechniques, 72(2), 51–59. https://doi.org/10.2144/btn-2021-0014

Buckley, Stephen, Power, Robert C., Andreadaki-Vlazaki, Maria, Akar, Murat, Becher, Julia, Belser, Matthias, Cafisso, Sara, Eisenmann, Stefanie, Fletcher, Joann, Francken, Michael, Hallager, Birgitta, Harvati, Katerina, Ingman, Tara, Kataki, Efthymia, Maran, Joseph, Martin, Mario A. S., McGeorge, Photini J. P., Milevski, Ianir, Papadimitriou, Alkestis, et al. (2021). Archaeometric evidence for the earliest exploitation of lignite from the bronze age Eastern Mediterranean. Scientific Reports, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-03544-w

Robin, Mathieu, Ferrari, Giada, Akgül, Gülfirde, von Seth, Johanna, Schuenemann, Verena J., Dalén, Love, & Grossen, Christine. (2021). Ancient mitogenomes unravel massive genetic diversity loss during near extinction of Alpine ibex [Posted-content]. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.11.07.467348

Immel, Alexander, Key, Felix M, Szolek, András, Barquera, Rodrigo, Robinson, Madeline K, Harrison, Genelle F, Palmer, William H, Spyrou, Maria A, Susat, Julian, Krause-Kyora, Ben, Bos, Kirsten I, Forrest, Stephen, Hernández-Zaragoza, Diana I, Sauter, Jürgen, Solloch, Ute, Schmidt, Alexander H, Schuenemann, Verena J, Reiter, Ella, Kairies, Madita S, et al. (2021). Analysis of Genomic DNA from Medieval Plague Victims Suggests Long-Term Effect of Yersinia pestis on Human Immunity Genes. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 38(10), 4059–4076. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msab147

Baumann, Chris, Pfrengle, Saskia, Münzel, Susanne C., Molak, Martyna, Feuerborn, Tatiana R., Breidenstein, Abagail, Reiter, Ella, Albrecht, Gerd, Kind, Claus-Joachim, Verjux, Christian, Leduc, Charlotte, Conard, Nicholas J., Drucker, Dorothée G., Giemsch, Liane, Thalmann, Olaf, Bocherens, Hervé, & Schuenemann, Verena J. (2021). A refined proposal for the origin of dogs: the case study of Gnirshöhle, a Magdalenian cave site. Scientific Reports, 11. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-83719-7

Hockings, K. J., Mubemba, B., Avanzi, C., Pleh, K., Dux, A., Bersacola, E., Bessa, J., Ramon, M., Metzger, S., Patrono, L. V., Jaffe, J. E., Benjak, A., Bonneaud, C., Busso, P., Couacy-Hymann, E., Gado, M., Gagneux, S., Johnson, R. C., Kodio, M., et al. (2021). Leprosy in wild chimpanzees. Nature, 598(7882), 652–+. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03968-4

Pfrengle, S., Neukamm, J., Guellil, M., Keller, M., Molak, M., Avanzi, C., Kushniarevich, A., Montes, N., Neumann, G. U., Reiter, E., Tukhbatova, R. I., Berezina, N. Y., Buzhilova, A. P., Korobov, D. S., Suppersberger Hamre, S., Matos, V. M. J., Ferreira, M. T., Gonzalez-Garrido, L., Wasterlain, S. N., et al. (2021). Mycobacterium leprae diversity and population dynamics in medieval Europe from novel ancient genomes. BMC Biol, 19(1), 220. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-01120-2

Urban, Christian, Blom, Alette A., Pfrengle, Saskia, Walker-Meikle, Kathleen, Stone, Anne C., Inskip, Sarah A., & Schuenemann, Verena J. (2021). One Health Approaches to Trace Mycobacterium leprae’s Zoonotic Potential Through Time. Frontiers in Microbiology, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.762263

Furtwängler, Anja, Neukamm, Judith, Böhme, Lisa, Reiter, Ella, Vollstedt, Melanie, Arora, Natasha, Singh, Pushpendra, Cole, Stewart T., Knauf, Sascha, Calvignac-Spencer, Sébastien, Krause-Kyora, Ben, Krause, Johannes, Schuenemann, Verena J., & Herbig, Alexander. (2020). Comparison of target enrichment strategies for ancient pathogen DNA. BioTechniques, 69(6), 455–459. https://doi.org/10.2144/btn-2020-0100

Ferrari, Giada, Neukamm, Judith, Baalsrud, Helle T., Breidenstein, Abagail M., Ravinet, Mark, Phillips, Carina, Rühli, Frank, Bouwman, Abigail, & Schuenemann, Verena J. (2020). Variola virus genome sequenced from an eighteenth-century museum specimen supports the recent origin of smallpox: 18th century Variola virus genome. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 375(1812). https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0572

Morozova, Irina, Kasianov, Artem, Bruskin, Sergey, Neukamm, Judith, Molak, Martyna, Batieva, Elena, Pudło, Aleksandra, Rühli, Frank J., & Schuenemann, Verena J. (2020). New ancient Eastern European Yersinia pestis genomes illuminate the dispersal of plague in Europe: Evolution of Y. pestis in Eastern Europe. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 375(1812). https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0569

Stone, Anne C., Lewis, Cecil M., & Schuenemann, Verena J. (2020). Insights into health and disease from ancient biomolecules: Ancient insights into health. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 375(1812). https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0568

Strack, Philip R., Brodie, Erica J., Zhan, Hanmiao, Schuenemann, Verena J., Valente, Liz J., Saiyed, Tamanna, Lowth, Bradley R., Angley, Lauren M., Perugini, Matthew A., Zeth, Kornelius, Truscott, Kaye N., & Dougan, David A. (2020). Polymerase delta-interacting protein 38 (PDIP38) modulates the stability and activity of the mitochondrial AAA+ protease CLPXP. Communications Biology, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-01358-6

Recht, Judith, Schuenemann, Verena J., & Sánchez-Villagra, Marcelo R. (2020). Host diversity and origin of zoonoses: The ancient and the new. Animals, 10(9), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani10091672

Loog, Liisa, Thalmann, Olaf, Sinding, Mikkel-Holger S., Schuenemann, Verena J., Perri, Angela, Germonpré, Mietje, Bocherens, Herve, Witt, Kelsey E., Samaniego Castruita, Jose A., Velasco, Marcela S., Lundstrøm, Inge K. C., Wales, Nathan, Sonet, Gontran, Frantz, Laurent, Schroeder, Hannes, Budd, Jane, Jimenez, Elodie-Laure, Fedorov, Sergey, Gasparyan, Boris, et al. (2020). Ancient DNA suggests modern wolves trace their origin to a Late Pleistocene expansion from Beringia. Molecular Ecology, 29(9), 1596–1610. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15329

Majander, Kerttu, Pfrengle, Saskia, Kocher, Arthur, Neukamm, Judith, du Plessis, Louis, Pla-Díaz, Marta, Arora, Natasha, Akgül, Gülfirde, Salo, Kati, Schats, Rachel, Inskip, Sarah, Oinonen, Markku, Valk, Heiki, Malve, Martin, Kriiska, Aivar, Onkamo, Päivi, González-Candelas, Fernando, Kühnert, Denise, Krause, Johannes, & Schuenemann, Verena J. (2020). Ancient Bacterial Genomes Reveal a High Diversity of Treponema pallidum Strains in Early Modern Europe. Current Biology, 30, 3788–3803. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.07.058

Mubemba, Benjamin, Gogarten, Jan F., Schuenemann, Verena J., Düx, Ariane, Lang, Alexander, Nowak, Kathrin, Pléh, Kamilla, Reiter, Ella, Ulrich, Markus, Agbor, Anthony, Brazzola, Gregory, Deschner, Tobias, Dieguez, Paula, Granjon, Annecéline, Jones, Sorrel, Junker, Jessica, Wessling, Erin, Arandjelovic, Mimi, Kuehl, Hjalmar, et al. (2020). Geographically structured genomic diversity of non-human primate-infecting treponema pallidum subsp. Pertenue. Microbial Genomics, 6(11), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.000463

Neukamm, Judith, Pfrengle, Saskia, Molak, Martyna, Seitz, Alexander, Francken, Michael, Eppenberger, Partick, Avanzi, Charlotte, Reiter, Ella, Urban, Christian, Welte, Beatrix, Stockhammer, Philipp W., Teßmann, Barbara, Herbig, Alexander, Harvati, Katerina, Nieselt, Kay, Krause, Johannes, & Schuenemann, Verena J. (2020). 2000-year-old pathogen genomes reconstructed from metagenomic analysis of Egyptian mummified individuals. BMC Biology, 18. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-020-00839-8

Gretzinger, Joscha, Molak, Martyna, Reiter, Ella, Pfrengle, Saskia, Urban, Christian, Neukamm, Judith, Blant, Michel, Conard, Nicholas J., Cupillard, Christophe, Dimitrijević, Vesna, Drucker, Dorothée G., Hofman-Kamińska, Emilia, Kowalczyk, Rafał, Krajcarz, Maciej T., Krajcarz, Magdalena, Münzel, Susanne C., Peresani, Marco, Romandini, Matteo, Rufí, Isaac, et al. (2019). Large-scale mitogenomic analysis of the phylogeography of the Late Pleistocene cave bear. Scientific Reports, 9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-47073-z

Översti, Sanni, Majander, Kerttu, Salmela, Elina, Salo, Kati, Arppe, Laura, Belskiy, Stanislav, Etu-Sihvola, Heli, Laakso, Ville, Mikkola, Esa, Pfrengle, Saskia, Putkonen, Mikko, Taavitsainen, Jussi-Pekka, Vuoristo, Katja, Wessman, Anna, Sajantila, Antti, Oinonen, Markku, Haak, Wolfgang, Schuenemann, Verena J., Krause, Johannes, et al. (2019). Human mitochondrial DNA lineages in Iron-Age Fennoscandia suggest incipient admixture and eastern introduction of farming-related maternal ancestry. Scientific Reports, 9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-51045-8

Furtwängler, Anja, Reiter, Ella, Neumann, Gunnar U., Siebke, Inga, Steuri, Noah, Hafner, Albert, Lösch, Sandra, Anthes, Nils, Schuenemann, Verena J., & Krause, Johannes. (2018). Ratio of mitochondrial to nuclear DNA affects contamination estimates in ancient DNA analysis. Scientific Reports, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-32083-0

Knauf, Sascha, Gogarten, Jan F., Schuenemann, Verena J., De Nys, Hélène M., Düx, Ariane, Strouhal, Michal, Mikalová, Lenka, Bos, Kirsten I., Armstrong, Roy, Batamuzi, Emmanuel K., Chuma, Idrissa S., Davoust, Bernard, Diatta, Georges, Fyumagwa, Robert D., Kazwala, Reuben R., Keyyu, Julius D., Lejora, Inyasi A. V., Levasseur, Anthony, Liu, Hsi, et al. (2018). Nonhuman primates across sub-Saharan Africa are infected with the yaws bacterium Treponema pallidum subsp. pertenue. Emerging Microbes and Infections, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41426-018-0156-4

O’Sullivan, Niall, Posth, Cosimo, Coia, Valentina, Schuenemann, Verena J., Douglas Price, T., Wahl, Joachim, Pinhasi, Ron, Zink, Albert, Krause, Johannes, & Maixner, Frank. (2018). Ancient genome-wide analyses infer kinship structure in an Early Medieval Alemannic graveyard. Science Advances, 4(9). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aao1262

Schuenemann, Verena J., Kumar Lankapalli, Aditya, Barquera, Rodrigo, Nelson, Elizabeth A., Iraíz Hernández, Diana, Acuña Alonzo, Víctor, Bos, Kirsten I., Márquez Morfín, Lourdes, Herbig, Alexander, & Krause, Johannes. (2018). Historic Treponema pallidum genomes from Colonial Mexico retrieved from archaeological remains. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 12(6). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006447

Schuenemann, Verena J., Avanzi, Charlotte, Krause-Kyora, Ben, Seitz, Alexander, Herbig, Alexander, Inskip, Sarah, Bonazzi, Marion, Reiter, Ella, Urban, Christian, Dangvard Pedersen, Dorthe, Taylor, G. Michael, Singh, Pushpendra, Stewart, Graham R., Velemínský, Petr, Likovsky, Jakub, Marcsik, Antónia, Molnár, Erika, Pálfi, György, Mariotti, Valentina, et al. (2018). Ancient genomes reveal a high diversity of Mycobacterium leprae in medieval Europe. PLoS Pathogens, 14(5). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1006997

Exposito-Alonso, Moises, Becker, Claude, Schuenemann, Verena J., Reiter, Ella, Setzer, Claudia, Slovak, Radka, Brachi, Benjamin, Hagmann, Jörg, Grimm, Dominik G., Chen, Jiahui, Busch, Wolfgang, Bergelson, Joy, Ness, Rob W., Krause, Johannes, Burbano, Hernán A., & Weigel, Detlef. (2018). The rate and potential relevance of new mutations in a colonizing plant lineage. PLoS Genetics, 14(2). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1007155

Swarts, Kelly, Gutaker, Rafal M., Benz, Bruce, Blake, Michael, Bukowski, Robert, Holland, James, Kruse-Peeples, Melissa, Lepak, Nicholas, Prim, Lynda, Romay, M. Cinta, Ross-Ibarra, Jeffrey, Sanchez-Gonzalez, Jose De Jesus, Schmidt, Chris, Schuenemann, Verena J., Krause, Johannes, Matson, R.G., Weigel, Detlef, Buckler, Edward S., & Burbano, Hernán A. (2017). Genomic estimation of complex traits reveals ancient maize adaptation to temperate North America. Science, 357(6350), 512–515. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aam9425

Prendergast, Mary E., Buckley, Michael, Crowther, Alison, Frantz, Laurent, Eager, Heidi, Lebrasseur, Ophélie, Hutterer, Rainer, Hulme-Beaman, Ardern, Van Neer, Wim, Douka, Katerina, Veall, Margaret-Ashley, Quintana Morales, Eriéndira M., Schuenemann, Verena J., Reiter, Ella, Allen, Richard, Dimopoulos, Evangelos A., Helm, Richard M., Shipton, Ceri, Mwebi, Ogeto, et al. (2017). Reconstructing Asian faunal introductions to eastern Africa from multi-proxy biomolecular and archaeological datasets. PLoS ONE, 12(8). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0182565

Kasulin, Luciana, Rowan, Beth A., León, Rolando J.C., Schuenemann, Verena J., Weigel, Detlef, & Botto, Javier F. (2017). A single haplotype hyposensitive to light and requiring strong vernalization dominates Arabidopsis thaliana populations in Patagonia, Argentina. Molecular Ecology, 26(13), 3389–3404. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.14107

Schuenemann, Verena J., Peltzer, Alexander, Welte, Beatrix, Van Pelt, W. Paul, Molak, Martyna, Wang, Chuan-Chao, Furtwängler, Anja, Urban, Christian, Reiter, Ella, Nieselt, Kay, Teßmann, Barbara, Francken, Michael, Harvati, Katerina, Haak, Wolfgang, Schiffels, Stephan, & Krause, Johannes. (2017). Ancient Egyptian mummy genomes suggest an increase of Sub-Saharan African ancestry in post-Roman periods. Nature Communications, 8. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15694

Gutaker, Rafal M., Reiter, Ella, Furtwängler, Anja, Schuenemann, Verena J., & Burbano, Hernán A. (2017). Extraction of ultrashort DNA molecules from herbarium specimens. BioTechniques, 62(2), 76–79. https://doi.org/10.2144/000114517

Arora, Natasha, Schuenemann, Verena J., Jäger, Günter, Peltzer, Alexander, Seitz, Alexander, Herbig, Alexander, Strouhal, Michal, Grillová, Linda, Sánchez-Busó, Leonor, Kühnert, Denise, Bos, Kirsten I., Davis, Leyla Rivero, Mikalová, Lenka, Bruisten, Sylvia, Komericki, Peter, French, Patrick, Grant, Paul R., Pando, Mariá A., Vaulet, Luciá Gallo, et al. (2016). Origin of modern syphilis and emergence of a pandemic Treponema pallidum cluster. Nature Microbiology, 2. https://doi.org/10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.245

Gogarten, J.F., Düx, A., Schuenemann, V.J., Nowak, K., Boesch, C., Wittig, R.M., Krause, J., Calvignac-Spencer, S., & Leendertz, F.H. (2016). Tools for opening new chapters in the book of Treponema pallidum evolutionary history. Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 22(11), 916–921. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmi.2016.07.027

Immel, Alexander, Le Cabec, Adeline, Bonazzi, Marion, Herbig, Alexander, Temming, Heiko, Schuenemann, Verena J., Bos, Kirsten I., Langbein, Frauke, Harvati, Katerina, Bridault, Anne, Pion, Gilbert, Julien, Marie-Anne, Krotova, Oleksandra, Conard, Nicholas J., Münzel, Susanne C., Drucker, Dorothée G., Viola, Bence, Hublin, Jean-Jacques, Tafforeau, Paul, & Krause, Johannes. (2016). Effect of X-ray irradiation on ancient DNA in sub-fossil bones - Guidelines for safe X-ray imaging. Scientific Reports, 6. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep32969

Mascher, Martin, Schuenemann, Verena J., Davidovich, Uri, Marom, Nimrod, Himmelbach, Axel, Hübner, Sariel, Korol, Abraham, David, Michal, Reiter, Ella, Riehl, Simone, Schreiber, Mona, Vohr, Samuel H., Green, Richard E., Dawson, Ian K., Russell, Joanne, Kilian, Benjamin, Muehlbauer, Gary J., Waugh, Robbie, Fahima, Tzion, et al. (2016). Genomic analysis of 6,000-year-old cultivated grain illuminates the domestication history of barley. Nature Genetics, 48(9), 1089–1093. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3611

Weiß, Clemens L., Schuenemann, Verena J., Devos, Jane, Shirsekar, Gautam, Reiter, Ella, Gould, Billie A., Stinchcombe, John R., Krause, Johannes, & Burbano, Hernán A. (2016). Temporal patterns of damage and decay kinetics of dna retrieved from plant herbarium specimens. Royal Society Open Science, 3(6). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160239

Bos, Kirsten I., Herbig, Alexander, Sahl, Jason, Waglechner, Nicholas, Fourment, Mathieu, Forrest, Stephen A., Klunk, Jennifer, Schuenemann, Verena J., Poinar, Debi, Kuch, Melanie, Golding, G Brian, Dutour, Olivier, Keim, Paul, Wagner, David M., Holmes, Edward C., Krause, Johannes, & Poinar, Hendrik N. (2016). Eighteenth century Yersinia pestis genomes reveal the long-term persistence of an historical plague focus. eLife, 5(JANUARY2016). https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.12994

Immel, Alexander, Drucker, Dorothée G., Bonazzi, Marion, Jahnke, Tina K., Münzel, Susanne C., Schuenemann, Verena J., Herbig, Alexander, Kind, Claus-Joachim, & Krause, Johannes. (2015). Mitochondrial genomes of giant deers suggest their late survival in central Europe. Scientific Reports, 5. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep10853

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