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  • Analysis of bitter compounds in traditional preparations of Gentiana purpurea L 
    Hoel, Håvard; de Boer, Hugo; Kool, Anneleen; Wangensteen, Helle (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    Roots of Gentiana purpurea are known to have an intense bitter taste due to its high content of secoiridoids. In folk medicine roots have commonly been prepared as water decoctions, soaked in ethanol, or boiled with milk, ...
  • Analytical advances alleviate model misspecification in non–Brownian multivariate comparative methods 
    Bartoszek, Krzysztof; Fuentes-González, Jesualdo; Mitov, Venelin; Pienaar, Jason; Piwczyński, Marcin; Puchałka, Radosław; Spalik, Krzysztof; Voje, Kjetil Lysne (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    Abstract Adams and Collyer (2018) argue that contemporary multivariate (Gaussian) phylogenetic comparative methods are prone to favouring more complex models of evolution and sometimes rotation invariance can be ...
  • Ancestral Sperm Ecotypes Reveal Multiple Invasions of a Non-Native Fish in Northern Europe 
    Green, Leon; Apostolou, Apostolos; Faust, Ellika; Palmqvist, Kajsa; Behrens, Jane W.; Havenhand, Jonathan N.; Leder, Erica Helen; Kvarnemo, Charlotta (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    For externally fertilising organisms in the aquatic environment, the abiotic fertilisation medium can be a strong selecting force. Among bony fishes, sperm are adapted to function in a narrow salinity range. A notable ...
  • Ancient DNA suggests modern wolves trace their origin to a Late Pleistocene expansion from Beringia 
    Loog, Liisa; Thalmann, Olaf; Sinding, Mikkel Holger Strander; Schuenemann, Verena J.; Perri, Angela; Germonpré, Mietje; Bocherens, Herve; Witt, Kelsey E.; Samaniego Castruita, José Alfredo; Velasco, Marcela Sandoval; Lundstrøm, Inge K.C.; Wales, Nathan; Sonet, Gontran; Frantz, Laurent; Schroeder, Hannes; Budd, Jane; Jimenez, Elodie-Laure; Fedorov, Sergey; Gasparyan, Boris; Kandel, Andrew W.; Lázničková-Galetová, Martina; Napierala, Hannes; Uerpmann, Hans-Peter; Nikolskiy, Pavel A.; Pavlova, Elena Y.; Pitulko, Vladimir V.; Herzig, Karl-Heinz; Malhi, Ripan S.; Willerslev, Eske; Hansen, Anders J.; Dobney, Keith; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Krause, Johannes; Larson, Greger; Eriksson, Anders; Manica, Andrea (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
    Grey wolves (Canis lupus ) are one of the few large terrestrial carnivores that have maintained a wide geographical distribution across the Northern Hemisphere throughout the Pleistocene and Holocene. Recent genetic studies ...
  • Ancient environmental DNA reveals shifts in dominant mutualisms during the late Quaternary 
    Zobel, Martin; Davison, John; Edwards, Mary E.; Brochmann, Christian; Coissac, Eric; Taberlet, Pierre; Willerslev, Eske; Moora, Mari (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    DNA-based snapshots of ancient vegetation have shown that the composition of high-latitude plant communities changed considerably during the late Quaternary. However, parallel changes in biotic interactions remain largely ...
  • Ancient genomes reveal early Andean farmers selected common beans while preserving diversity 
    Trucchi, Emiliano; Benazzo, Andrea; Lari, Martina; Iob, Alice; Vai, Stefania; Nanni, Laura; Bellucci, Elisa; Bitocchi, Elena; Raffini, Francesca; Xu, Chunming; Jackson, Scott A.; Lema, Verónica; Babot, Pilar; Oliszewski, Nurit; Gil, Adolfo; Neme, Gustavo; Michieli, Catalina Teresa; Lorenzi, Monica De; Calcagnile, Lucio; Caramelli, David; Star, Bastiaan; de Boer, Hugo; Boessenkool, Sanne; Papa, Roberto; Bertorelle, Giorgio (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    All crops are the product of a domestication process that started less than 12,000 years ago from one or more wild populations1,2. Farmers selected desirable phenotypic traits (such as improved energy accumulation, ...
  • Anthropogenic and environmental drivers of vegetation change in southeastern Norway during the Holocene 
    ter Schure, Anneke Theresia Maria; Bajard, Manon Juliette Andree; Loftsgarden, Kjetil; Høeg, Helge Irgens; Ballo, Eirik Gottschalk; Bakke, Jostein; Støren, Eivind Wilhelm Nagel; Iversen, Frode; Kool, Anneleen; Brysting, Anne Krag; Krüger, Kirstin; Boessenkool, Sanne (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    Uncovering anthropogenic and environmental drivers behind past biological change requires integrated analyses of long-term records from a diversity of disciplines. We applied an interdisciplinary approach exploring effects ...
  • Application of Supersplining to the Mesozoic and Paleozoic Geologic Time Scales 
    Gradstein, Felix M; Agterberg, F.P. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    Abstract Methods to determine the ages of period and stage boundaries of the geologic time scale (GTS) have a long history and continue to be steadily improved. Stage boundary age estimates are now accompanied by error ...
  • Arctic-adapted dogs emerged at the Pleistocene–Holocene transition 
    Sinding, Mikkel Holger Strander; Gopalakrishnan, Shyam; Ramos-Madrigal, Jazmín; de Manuel, Marc; Pitulko, Vladimir V.; Kuderna, Lukas; Feuerborn, Tatiana R.; Frantz, Laurent A.F.; Vieira, Filipe G.; Niemann, Jonas; Castruita, Jose A. Samaniego; Carøe, Christian; Andersen-Ranberg, Emilie; Jordan, Peter; Pavlova, Elena Y.; Nikolskiy, Pavel A.; Kasparov, Aleksei K.; Ivanova, Varvara V.; Willerslev, Eske; Skoglund, Pontus; Fredholm, Merete; Wennerberg, Sanne Eline; Heide Jørgensen, Mads Peter; Dietz, Rune; Sonne, Christian; Meldgaard, Morten; Dalén, Love; Larson, Greger; Petersen, Bent; Sicheritz-Ponten, Thomas; Bachmann, Lutz; Wiig, Øystein; Marques-Bonet, Tomas; Hansen, Anders J; Gilbert, M. Thomas P. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2020)
    Although sled dogs are one of the most specialized groups of dogs, their origin and evolution has received much less attention than many other dog groups. We applied a genomic approach to investigate their spatiotemporal ...
  • Are Early Triassic extinction events associated with mercury anomalies? A reassessment of the Smithian/Spathian boundary extinction 
    Hammer, Øyvind; Jones, Morgan Thomas; Schneebeli-Hermann, Elke; Hansen, Bitten Bolvig; Bucher, Hugo (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
    High concentrations of mercury, possibly connected with widespread volcanism of the Siberian Traps, have previously been associated with the Smithian/Spathian (Early Triassic) boundary (SSB) in the Sverdrup Basin, Tethyan ...
  • Are there any trees in the Arctic? Reconstruction of evolutionary histories in a young biome 
    Carlsen, Tor (Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2007)
    Reconstructing molecular phylogenies and unraveling biogeographic histories of arctic plants are needed to obtain better insights into the processes of evolution, dispersal and colonization in this young biome. Studies ...
  • Arenaria acaulis (Caryophyllaceae), a new species from South Peru 
    Montesinos-Tubee, Daniel B.; Kool, Anneleen (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
    During studies on the flora of Moquegua (Southern Peru), some interesting Arenaria populations (subgen. Dicranilla, Caryophyllaceae) were found. The morphology of the plants does not resemble any other neotropical Arenaria ...
  • As clear as crystal? An attempt at sourcing hydrothermal quartz crystals from the Early Mesolithic site ‘Mohalsen-I’, Vega Island, Norway using LA-ICP-MS and SEM-CL 
    Spjelkavik, Skule Olaus Svendsen; Müller, Axel (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    This article describes an attempt at sourcing hydrothermal quartz crystals from the Early Mesolithic site Mohalsen-I by comparing four pieces of debitage with quartz crystal samples from 19 known quartz crystal occurrences ...
  • Assessing recovery of alpine spoil heaps by vascular plant, bryophyte, and lichen functional traits 
    Sulavik, Jan; Auestad, Inger; Halvorsen, Rune; Rydgren, Knut (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
    Functional traits are linked to ecosystem processes and services and therefore relevant in recovery assessment. However, traits of bryophytes and lichens, important components of many ecosystems, have received less attention ...
  • Assessing restoration success by predicting time to recovery- But by which metric? 
    Rydgren, Knut; Auestad, Inger; Halvorsen, Rune; Hamre, Liv Norunn; Jongejans, Eelke; Töpper, Joachim Paul; Sulavik, Jan (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
    1. Restoration of degraded ecosystems may take decades or even centuries. Accordingly, information about the current direction and speed of recovery provided by methods for predicting time to recovery may give important ...
  • Asymmetric contributions of seed and pollen to gene dispersal in the marsh orchid Dactylorhiza umbrosa in Asia Minor 
    Hedrén, Mikael; Birkedal, Sven; de Boer, Hugo; Ghorbani, Abdolbaset; Gravendeel, Barbara; Hansson, Sven; Svensson, Åke; Zarré, Shahin (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    Orchids differ from other plants in their extremely small and partly air-filled seeds that can be transported long distances by wind. Seed dispersal in orchids is expected to contribute strongly to overall gene flow, and ...
  • Atp8 is in the ground pattern of flatworm mitochondrial genomes 
    Egger, Bernhard; Bachmann, Lutz; Fromm, Bastian (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    Background To date, mitochondrial genomes of more than one hundred flatworms (Platyhelminthes) have been sequenced. They show a high degree of similarity and a strong taxonomic bias towards parasitic lineages. ...
  • An ‛Aukward’ tale: a genetic approach to discover the whereabouts of the last Great Auks 
    Thomas, Jessica E; Carvalho, Gary R.; Haile, James; Martin, Michael David; Castruita, Jose A. Samaniego; Niemann, Jonas; Sinding, Mikkel Holger Strander; Sandoval-Velasco, Marcela; Rawlence, Nicolas J.; Fuller, Errol; Fjeldså, Jon; Hofreiter, Michael; Stewart, John R; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Knapp, Michael (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    One hundred and seventy-three years ago, the last two Great Auks, Pinguinus impennis, ever reliably seen were killed. Their internal organs can be found in the collections of the Natural History Museum of Denmark, but the ...
  • Authentication of Garcinia fruits and food supplements using DNA barcoding and NMR spectroscopy 
    Gopalakrishnan Saroja, Seethapathy; Tadesse, Margey; Santhosh Kumar, JU; Gunaga, Srikanth V.; Vasudeva, Ramesh; Malterud, Karl Egil; Ramanan, Uma Shaanker; de Boer, Hugo; Gudasalamani, Ravikanth; Wangensteen, Helle (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    Garcinia L. (Clusiaceae) fruits are a rich source of (−)-hydroxycitric acid, and this has gained considerable attention as an anti-obesity agent and a popular weight loss food supplement. In this study, we assessed ...
  • Authentication of milk thistle commercial products using UHPLC-QTOF-ESI + MS metabolomics and DNA metabarcoding 
    Raclariu-Manolică, Ancuța C.; Mauvisseau, Quentin; Paranaiba, Renato; De Boer, Hugo J.; Socaciu, Carmen (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
    Background Milk thistle is one of the most popular hepatoprotectants, and is often sold in combination with other ingredients. Botanical supplements are known to be vulnerable to contamination and adulteration, ...