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Hernán A. Burbano

Associate Professor of Ancient Plant Genomics, University College London
Verified email at ucl.ac.uk
Cited by 13421

The Neandertal genome and ancient DNA authenticity

…, AW Briggs, J Krause, K Prüfer, HA Burbano… - The EMBO …, 2009 - embopress.org
Recent advances in high‐thoughput DNA sequencing have made genome‐scale analyses
of genomes of extinct organisms possible. With these new opportunities come new difficulties …

A robust framework for microbial archaeology

…, CL Weiß, HA Burbano… - Annual review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Microbial archaeology is flourishing in the era of high-throughput sequencing, revealing the
agents behind devastating historical plagues, identifying the cryptic movements of …

[HTML][HTML] Mining herbaria for plant pathogen genomes: back to the future

K Yoshida, HA Burbano, J Krause, M Thines… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Since the dawn of agriculture, plant pathogens and pests have been a scourge of humanity.
Yet we have come a long way since the Romans attempted to mitigate the effects of plant …

A draft sequence of the Neandertal genome

…, C Alkan, K Prüfer, M Meyer, HA Burbano… - science, 2010 - science.org
Neandertals, the closest evolutionary relatives of present-day humans, lived in large parts of
Europe and western Asia before disappearing 30,000 years ago. We present a draft …

[HTML][HTML] A draft genome of Yersinia pestis from victims of the Black Death

KI Bos, VJ Schuenemann, GB Golding, HA Burbano… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Technological advances in DNA recovery and sequencing have drastically expanded the
scope of genetic analyses of ancient specimens to the extent that full genomic investigations …

[PDF][PDF] The derived FOXP2 variant of modern humans was shared with Neandertals

…, L Orlando, W Enard, RE Green, HA Burbano… - Current biology, 2007 - cell.com
Although many animals communicate vocally, no extant creature rivals modern humans in
language ability. Therefore, knowing when and under what evolutionary pressures our …

[HTML][HTML] A complete Neandertal mitochondrial genome sequence determined by high-throughput sequencing

…, U Stenzel, K Prüfer, M Siebauer, HA Burbano… - Cell, 2008 - cell.com
A complete mitochondrial (mt) genome sequence was reconstructed from a 38,000 year-old
Neandertal individual with 8341 mtDNA sequences identified among 4.8 Gb of DNA …

DNA analysis of an early modern human from Tianyuan Cave, China

…, X Gao, U Stenzel, HA Burbano… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Hominins with morphology similar to present-day humans appear in the fossil record across
Eurasia between 40,000 and 50,000 y ago. The genetic relationships between these early …

Ancient gene flow from early modern humans into Eastern Neanderthals

…, J Prado-Martinez, M Kircher, Q Fu, HA Burbano… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
It has been shown that Neanderthals contributed genetically to modern humans outside
Africa 47,000–65,000 years ago. Here we analyse the genomes of a Neanderthal and a …

The rise and fall of the Phytophthora infestans lineage that triggered the Irish potato famine

…, J Krause, M Thines, D Weigel, HA Burbano - elife, 2013 - elifesciences.org
10.7554/eLife.00731.001 Phytophthora infestans, the cause of potato late blight, is infamous
for having triggered the Irish Great Famine in the 1840s. Until the late 1970s, P. infestans …