| 2025 |
Rawlence, N. J., Lubbe, P., Adams, A. L., Shepherd, L. D., Cole, T. L., Knapp, M., . . . Tennyson, A. J. D. (2025). Ancient DNA and morphometrics reveal a new species of extinct insular shelduck from Rēkohu Chatham Islands. ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY, 204(3), 16 pages.
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| 2025 |
Llamas, B., van Loenen, A. L., Mitchell, K. J., Hofman-Kamińska, E., Bocherens, H., Heiniger, H., . . . Cooper, A. (2025). Coexistence, Extinction and Survival-The Evolutionary History of Bison Species in Western Eurasia.. Glob Chang Biol, 31(8), e70354.
DOI Scopus1 WoS1 |
| 2025 |
Buckley, M., Mitchell, K. J., Arnold, L. J., Reed, E. H., & Eberhard, R. (2025). Collagen fingerprinting and sequence analysis provides a molecular phylogeny of extinct Australian megafauna.. Proceedings. Biological sciences, 292(2058), 20250856.
DOI Europe PMC1 |
| 2025 |
Scarsbrook, L., Cairns, K. M., Mitchell, K. J., Bougiouri, K., Evin, A., Harris, A. C., . . . Fillios, M. A. (2025). The impacts of European arrival on Australian dingoes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122(48), e2421749122.
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| 2025 |
Carpenter, J. K., Verry, A. J. F., Mitchell, K. J., Trought, K., Monks, A., Innes, J., . . . Wilmshurst, J. M. (2025). DNA metabarcoding of stomach contents shows predation impacts of black rats on island birds after a resource pulse are driven by numerical not functional response. Biological Invasions, 27(1), 19 pages.
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| 2025 |
Salis, A. T., Schubert, B. W., Bray, S. C. E., Heiniger, H., Meachen, J., Cooper, A., & Mitchell, K. J. (2025). Genetic diversity, phylogeography, and sexual dimorphism in the extinct giant short-faced bear (Arctodus simus). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 203(2), zlaf001-1-zlaf001-10.
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| 2024 |
Verry, A. J. F., Lubbe, P., Mitchell, K. J., & Rawlence, N. J. (2024). Thirty years of ancient DNA and the faunal biogeography of Aotearoa New Zealand: lessons and future directions. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 54(1), 75-97.
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| 2024 |
Rawlence, N. J., Verry, A. J. F., Cole, T. L., Shepherd, L. D., Tennyson, A. J. D., Williams, M., . . . Mitchell, K. J. (2024). Ancient mitogenomes reveal evidence for the Late Miocene dispersal of mergansers to the Southern Hemisphere. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 202(4), 10 pages.
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| 2024 |
Souilmi, Y., Wasef, S., Williams, M. P., Conroy, G., Bar, I., Bover, P., . . . Mitchell, K. J. (2024). Ancient genomes reveal over two thousand years of dingo population structure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(30), e2407584121-1-e2407584121-12.
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| 2023 |
Walton, K., Scarsbrook, L., Mitchell, K. J., Verry, A. J. F., Marshall, B. A., Rawlence, N. J., & Spencer, H. G. (2023). Application of palaeogenetic techniques to historic mollusc shells reveals phylogeographic structure in a New Zealand abalone. Molecular Ecology Resources, 23(1), 118-130.
DOI Scopus7 WoS6 Europe PMC4 |
| 2023 |
Donfrancesco, V., Allen, B. L., Appleby, R., Behrendorff, L., Conroy, G., Crowther, M. S., . . . Cairns, K. M. (2023). Understanding conflict among experts working on controversial species: A case study on the Australian dingo. Conservation Science and Practice, 5(3), 14 pages.
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| 2023 |
Scarsbrook, L., Mitchell, K. J., McGee, M. D., Closs, G. P., & Rawlence, N. J. (2023). Ancient DNA from the extinct New Zealand grayling (Prototroctes oxyrhynchus) reveals evidence for Miocene marine dispersal. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 197(2), 532-544.
DOI Scopus3 WoS3 |
| 2023 |
Dutoit, L., Mitchell, K. J., Dussex, N., Kemper, C. M., Larsson, P., Dalén, L., . . . Marx, F. G. (2023). Convergent evolution of skim feeding in baleen whales. Marine Mammal Science, 39(4), 1337-1343.
DOI Scopus6 WoS5 |
| 2023 |
Lovelace, D. M., Redman, C. M., Minckley, T. A., Schubert, B. W., Mahan, S., Wood, J. R., . . . Meachen, J. A. (2023). An age-depth model and revised stratigraphy of vertebrate-bearing units in Natural Trap Cave, Wyoming. Quaternary International, 647-648, 4-21.
DOI Scopus6 WoS5 |
| 2022 |
Rawlence, N. J., Salis, A. T., Spencer, H. G., Waters, J., Scarsbrook, L., Mitchell, K. J., . . . Kennedy, M. (2022). Rapid radiation of Southern Ocean shags in response to receding sea ice. Journal of Biogeography, 49(5), 942-953.
DOI Scopus7 |
| 2022 |
Verry, A. J. F., Mitchell, K. J., & Rawlence, N. J. (2022). Genetic evidence for post-glacial expansion from a southern refugium in the eastern moa (Emeus crassus). Biology Letters, 18(5), 6 pages.
DOI Scopus6 WoS7 Europe PMC4 |
| 2022 |
Stenhouse, P., Onley, I. R., Mitchell, K. J., Moseby, K. E., & Austin, J. J. (2022). Spatial genetic structure and limited gene flow in fragmented populations of the threatened Malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata). Ecological Genetics and Genomics, 24, 1-15.
DOI Scopus2 |
| 2021 |
Mitchell, K. J. (2021). Ancient DNA from the koala lemur puts Madagascar on the paleogenomic map. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(30), 1-2.
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| 2021 |
Sutton, G. J., Bost, C. A., Kouzani, A. Z., Adams, S. D., Mitchell, K., & Arnould, J. P. Y. (2021). Fine-scale foraging effort and efficiency of Macaroni penguins is influenced by prey type, patch density and temporal dynamics. Marine Biology, 168(1).
DOI Scopus17 |
| 2021 |
Onley, I. R., Austin, J. J., Mitchell, K. J., & Moseby, K. E. (2021). Understanding dispersal patterns can inform future translocation strategies: A case study of the threatened greater stick‐nest rat (Leporillus conditor). Austral Ecology, 47(2), 203-215.
DOI Scopus3 WoS3 Europe PMC1 |
| 2021 |
Liu, S., Westbury, M. V., Dussex, N., Mitchell, K. J., Sinding, M. -H. S., Heintzman, P. D., . . . Gilbert, M. T. P. (2021). Ancient and modern genomes unravel the evolutionary history of the rhinoceros family. Cell, 184(19), 4874-4885.
DOI Scopus71 WoS64 Europe PMC51 |
| 2021 |
De Pietri, V. L., Worthy, T. H., Scofield, R. P., Cole, T. L., Wood, J. R., Mitchell, K. J., . . . Wragg, G. M. (2021). A new extinct species of Polynesian sandpiper (Charadriiformes: Scolopacidae: Prosobonia) from Henderson Island, Pitcairn Group, and the phylogenetic relationships of Prosobonia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 192(4), 1045-1070.
DOI Scopus11 WoS9 |
| 2021 |
Johnston, P., & Mitchell, K. J. (2021). Contrasting Patterns of Sensory Adaptation in Living and Extinct Flightless Birds. Diversity, 13(11), 538.
DOI Scopus3 WoS3 |
| 2021 |
Salis, A. T., Bray, S. C. E., Lee, M. S. Y., Heiniger, H., Barnett, R., Burns, J. A., . . . Mitchell, K. J. (2021). Lions and brown bears colonized North America in multiple synchronous waves of dispersal across the Bering Land Bridge. Molecular Ecology, 31(24), 6407-6421.
DOI Scopus29 WoS30 Europe PMC24 |
| 2021 |
Mitchell, K. J., Bover, P., Salis, A. T., Mudge, C., Heiniger, H., Thompson, M., . . . Meachen, J. A. (2021). Evidence for Pleistocene gene flow through the ice-free corridor from extinct horses and camels from Natural Trap Cave, Wyoming. Quaternary International, 647-648, 71-80.
DOI Scopus3 WoS3 |
| 2021 |
Torres-Roig, E., Mitchell, K. J., Alcover, J. A., Martínez-Freiría, F., Bailón, S., Heiniger, H., . . . Bover, P. (2021). Origin, extinction and ancient DNA of a new fossil insular viper: molecular clues of overseas immigration. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 192(1), 144-168.
DOI Scopus13 WoS14 |
| 2021 |
Mitchell, K. J., Hugall, A. F., Heiniger, H., Joseph, L., & Oliver, P. M. (2021). Disparate origins for endemic bird taxa from the ‘Gondwana Rainforests’ of Central Eastern Australia. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 134(1), 40-56.
DOI Scopus8 WoS8 |
| 2021 |
Purnomo, G. A., Mitchell, K. J., O'Connor, S., Kealy, S., Taufik, L., Schiller, S., . . . Tobler, R. (2021). Mitogenomes reveal two major influxes of Papuan ancestry across Wallacea following the last glacial maximum and Austronesian contact. Genes, 12(7), 1-21.
DOI Scopus24 WoS23 Europe PMC15 |
| 2021 |
Sacks, B. N., Mitchell, K. J., Quinn, C. B., Hennelly, L. M., Sinding, M. H. S., Statham, M. J., . . . Frantz, L. A. F. (2021). Pleistocene origins, western ghost lineages, and the emerging phylogeographic history of the red wolf and coyote. Molecular Ecology, 30(17), 4292-4304.
DOI Scopus15 WoS15 Europe PMC8 |
| 2021 |
Perri, A. R., Mitchell, K. J., Mouton, A., Álvarez-Carretero, S., Hulme-Beaman, A., Haile, J., . . . Frantz, L. A. F. (2021). Dire wolves were the last of an ancient New World canid lineage. Nature, 591(7848), 87-92.
DOI Scopus55 WoS57 Europe PMC28 |
| 2021 |
Mitchell, K. J., & Rawlence, N. J. (2021). Examining natural history through the lens of palaeogenomics. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 36(3), 258-267.
DOI Scopus27 WoS26 Europe PMC14 |
| 2021 |
Donnellan, S. C., Catalano, S. R., Pederson, S., Mitchell, K. J., Suhendran, A., Price, L. C., . . . Richards, S. J. (2021). Revision of the Litoria watjulumensis (Anura: Pelodryadidae) group from the Australian monsoonal tropics, including the resurrection of L. spaldingi. Zootaxa, 4933(2), 211-240.
DOI Scopus6 WoS6 Europe PMC2 |
| 2021 |
Onley, I. R., Austin, J. J., & Mitchell, K. J. (2021). Sex assignment in a non-model organism in the absence of field records using Diversity Arrays Technology (DArT) data. Conservation Genetics Resources, 13(3), 255-260.
DOI Scopus4 WoS3 |
| 2020 |
Bover, P., Mitchell, K. J., Torres-Roig, E., Llamas, B., Thomson, V. A., Alcover, J. A., . . . Pons, J. (2020). Ancient DNA from an extinct Mediterranean micromammal—Hypnomys morpheus (Rodentia: Gliridae)—Provides insight into the biogeographic history of insular dormice. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 58(1), 427-438.
DOI Scopus7 WoS5 |
| 2020 |
Lombal, A. J., Salis, A. T., Mitchell, K. J., Tennyson, A. J. D., Shepherd, L. D., Worthy, T. H., . . . Burridge, C. P. (2020). Using ancient DNA to quantify losses of genetic and species diversity in seabirds: a case study of Pterodroma petrels from a Pacific island. Biodiversity and Conservation, 29(7), 2361-2375.
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| 2020 |
Oliver, P. M., Heiniger, H., Hugall, A. F., Joseph, L., & Mitchell, K. J. (2020). Oligocene divergence of frogmouth birds (Podargidae) across Wallace's Line. Biology Letters, 16(5), 1-5.
DOI Scopus13 WoS15 Europe PMC9 |
| 2019 |
Richards, S. M., Mitchell, K. J., Tobler, R., & Cooper, A. (2019). Recombinase Polymerase Amplification (RPA) versus PCR for ancient DNA library amplification.
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| 2019 |
Kealy, S., Donnellan, S. C., Mitchell, K. J., Herrera, M., Aplin, K., O'Connor, S., & Louys, J. (2019). Phylogenetic relationships of the cuscuses (Diprotodontia: Phalangeridae) of island Southeast Asia and Melanesia based on the mitochondrial ND2 gene. Australian Mammalogy, 42(3), 266-276.
DOI Scopus14 WoS11 |
| 2019 |
Kosintsev, P., Mitchell, K., Devièse, T., van der Plicht, J., Kuitems, M., Petrova, E., . . . Lister, A. (2019). Evolution and extinction of the giant rhinoceros Elasmotherium sibiricum sheds light on late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 3(1), 31-38.
DOI Scopus61 WoS55 Europe PMC22 |
| 2019 |
Cascini, M., Mitchell, K. J., Cooper, A., & Phillips, M. J. (2019). Reconstructing the evolution of giant extinct kangaroos: comparing the utility of DNA, morphology, and total evidence. Systematic Biology, 68(3), 520-537.
DOI Scopus25 WoS27 Europe PMC16 |
| 2019 |
Richards, S. M., Hovhannisyan, N., Gilliham, M., Ingram, J., Skadhauge, B., Heiniger, H., . . . Cooper, A. (2019). Low-cost cross-taxon enrichment of mitochondrial DNA using in-house synthesised RNA probes. PLoS ONE, 14(2), e0209499-1-e0209499-18.
DOI Scopus10 WoS13 Europe PMC6 |
| 2019 |
Cole, T. L., Ksepka, D. T., Mitchell, K. J., Tennyson, A. J. D., Thomas, D. B., Pan, H., . . . Waters, J. M. (2019). Mitogenomes uncover extinct penguin taxa and reveal island formation as a key driver of speciation. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 36(4), 784-797.
DOI Scopus38 WoS39 Europe PMC26 |
| 2019 |
Jackson, S. M., Fleming, P. J. S., Eldridge, M. D. B., Ingleby, S., Flannery, T., Johnson, R. N., . . . Helgen, K. M. (2019). The Dogma of Dingoes—Taxonomic status of the dingo: A reply to Smith et al.. Zootaxa, 4564(1), 198-212.
DOI Scopus42 WoS37 Europe PMC16 |
| 2019 |
Boast, A. P., Chapman, B., Herrera, M., Worthy, T. H., Scofield, R. P., Tennyson, A. J. D., . . . Mitchell, K. J. (2019). Mitochondrial genomes from New Zealand's extinct adzebills (Aves: Aptornithidae: Aptornis) support a sister-taxon relationship with the Afro-Madagascan Sarothruridae. Diversity, 11(2), 24-1-24-21.
DOI Scopus24 WoS22 |
| 2019 |
Richards, S., Mitchell, K., Tobler, R., & Cooper, A. (2019). Recombinase Polymerase Amplification (RPA) versus PCR for ancient DNA library amplification.
DOI Europe PMC1 |
| 2019 |
Bover Arbos, P., Llamas, B., Mitchell, K. J., Thomson, V. A., Alcover, J. A., Lalueza-Fox, C., . . . Pons, J. (2019). Unraveling the phylogenetic relationships of the extinct bovid Myotragus balearicus Bate 1909 from the Balearic Islands. Quaternary Science Reviews, 215, 185-195.
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| 2019 |
Gower, G., Fenderson, L. E., Salis, A. T., Helgen, K. M., van Loenen, A. L., Heiniger, H., . . . Cooper, A. (2019). Widespread male sex bias in mammal fossil and museum collections. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(38), 19019-19024.
DOI Scopus40 WoS35 Europe PMC21 |
| 2018 |
Feigin, C., Newton, A., Doronina, L., Schmitz, J., Hipsley, C., Mitchell, K., . . . Pask, A. (2018). Genome of the Tasmanian tiger provides insights into the evolution and demography of an extinct marsupial carnivore. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2(1), 182-192.
DOI Scopus79 WoS75 Europe PMC61 |
| 2018 |
White, L., Mitchell, K., & Austin, J. (2018). Ancient mitochondrial genomes reveal the demographic history and phylogeography of the extinct, enigmatic thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus). Journal of Biogeography, 45(1), 1-13.
DOI Scopus23 WoS27 Europe PMC4 |
| 2018 |
Bover, P., Mitchell, K., Llamas, B., Rofes, J., Thomson, V., Cuenca-Bescós, G., . . . Pons, J. (2018). Molecular phylogenetics supports the origin of an endemic Balearic shrew lineage (Nesiotites) coincident with the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 125, 188-195.
DOI Scopus9 WoS6 Europe PMC1 |
| 2018 |
Thomson, V., Mitchell, K., Eberhard, R., Dortch, J., Austin, J., & Cooper, A. (2018). Genetic diversity and drivers of dwarfism in extinct island emu populations. Biology Letters, 14(4), 20170617-1-20170617-4.
DOI Scopus19 WoS17 Europe PMC7 |
| 2018 |
Bover, P., Llamas, B., Thomson, V., Pons, J., Cooper, A., & Mitchell, K. (2018). Molecular resolution to a morphological controversy: the case of North American fossil muskoxen Bootherium and Symbos. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 129, 70-76.
DOI Scopus10 WoS9 Europe PMC1 |
| 2017 |
Wood, J., Mitchell, K., Scofield, R., De Pietri, V., Rawlence, N., & Cooper, A. (2017). Phylogenetic relationships and terrestrial adaptations of the extinct laughing owl, Sceloglaux albifacies (Aves: Strigidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 179(4), 907-918.
DOI Scopus21 WoS20 |
| 2017 |
Scofield, R. P., Mitchell, K. J., Wood, J. R., De Pietri, V. L., Jarvie, S., Llamas, B., & Cooper, A. (2017). The origin and phylogenetic relationships of the New Zealand ravens. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 106, 136-143.
DOI Scopus20 WoS20 Europe PMC9 |
| 2017 |
Perry, T., van Loenen, A., Heiniger, H., Lee, C., Gongora, J., Cooper, A., & Mitchell, K. (2017). Ancient DNA analysis of the extinct North American flat-headed peccary (Platygonus compressus). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 112, 258-267.
DOI Scopus7 WoS6 Europe PMC2 |
| 2016 |
Soubrier, J., Gower, G., Chen, K., Richards, S., Llamas, B., Mitchell, K., . . . Cooper, A. (2016). Early cave art and ancient DNA record the origin of European bison. Nature Communications, 7(1), 13158-1-13158-7.
DOI Scopus87 WoS86 Europe PMC41 |
| 2016 |
Mitchell, K., Bray, S., Bover, P., Soibelzon, L., Schubert, B., Prevosti, F., . . . Cooper, A. (2016). Ancient mitochondrial DNA reveals convergent evolution of giant short-faced bears (Tremarctinae) in North and South America. Biology letters, 12(4), 20160062-1-20160062-4.
DOI Scopus34 WoS30 Europe PMC14 |
| 2016 |
Mitchell, K., Scanferla, A., Soibelzon, E., Bonini, R., Ochoa, J., & Cooper, A. (2016). Ancient DNA from the extinct South American giant glyptodont Doedicurus sp. (Xenarthra: Glyptodontidae) reveals that glyptodonts evolved from Eocene armadillos. Molecular Ecology, 25(14), 3499-3508.
DOI Scopus53 WoS51 Europe PMC12 |
| 2016 |
Mitchell, K., Wood, J., Llamas, B., McLenachan, P., Kardailsky, O., Scofield, R., . . . Cooper, A. (2016). Ancient mitochondrial genomes clarify the evolutionary history of New Zealand's enigmatic acanthisittid wrens. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 102, 295-304.
DOI Scopus26 WoS26 Europe PMC17 |
| 2015 |
Llamas, B., Brotherton, P., Mitchell, K., Templeton, J., Thomson, V., Metcalf, J., . . . Cooper, A. (2015). Late Pleistocene Australian Marsupial DNA Clarifies the Affinities of Extinct Megafaunal Kangaroos and Wallabies. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 32(3), 574-584.
DOI Scopus25 WoS24 Europe PMC13 |
| 2015 |
Mitchell, K., Cooper, A., & Phillips, M. (2015). Comment on "whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds". Science, 349(6255), 1460.
DOI Scopus29 WoS29 Europe PMC22 |
| 2014 |
Mitchell, K., Wood, J., Scofield, R., Llamas, B., & Cooper, A. (2014). Ancient mitochondrial genome reveals unsuspected taxonomic affinity of the extinct Chatham duck (Pachyanas chathamica) and resolves divergence times for New Zealand and sub-Antarctic brown teals. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 70(1), 420-428.
DOI Scopus47 WoS47 Europe PMC25 |
| 2014 |
Mitchell, K., Pratt, R., Watson, L., Gibb, G., Llamas, B., Kasper, M., . . . Cooper, A. (2014). Molecular phylogeny, biogeography, and habitat preference evolution of marsupials. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 31(9), 2322-2330.
DOI Scopus185 WoS173 Europe PMC106 |
| 2014 |
Mitchell, K., Llamas, B., Soubrier, J., Rawlence, N., Worthy, T., Wood, J., . . . Cooper, A. (2014). Ancient DNA reveals elephant birds and kiwi are sister taxa and clarifies ratite bird evolution. Science, 344(6186), 898-900.
DOI Scopus224 WoS208 Europe PMC130 |
| 2014 |
Wood, J., Mitchell, K., Scofield, R., Tennyson, A., Fidler, A., Wilmshurst, J., . . . Cooper, A. (2014). An extinct nestorid parrot (Aves, Psittaciformes, Nestoridae) from the Chatham Islands, New Zealand. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 172(1), 185-199.
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Salis, A., Gower, G., Schubert, B. W., Soibelzon, L. H., Heiniger, H., Prieto, A., . . . Mitchell, K. J. (n.d.). Ancient Genomes Reveal Hybridisation between Extinct Short-Faced Bears and the Extant Spectacled Bear ( <i>Tremarctos Ornatus</i>). |
