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Phone
64 3 479 5169
Email
michael.knapp@otago.ac.nz

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Position
Associate Professor
Department
Department of Anatomy
Qualifications
Diplom(Saarland) PhD(Massey)
Research summary
Evolutionary genomics and conservation genomics; biological anthropology
Teaching
  • BIOA 101 Introduction to Biological Anthropology
  • BIOA 201 Biocultural Human Skeletal Biology
  • BIOA 301 Biological Anthropology of the Human Skeleton
Memberships
  • Editorial Board Member: PLOS ONE
  • Editorial Board Member: Scientific Reports

Research

Brief description of research

My group focuses on how species interact with their environment both on the molecular and on the population level and on how human activity shapes biodiversity. This interdisciplinary work aims at addressing a number of key questions including:

  1. How did past environmental change and human migration shape our present day biodiversity?
  2. How do modern conservation measures influence biodiversity?
  3. What is the genetic basis of evolutionary adaptation to new environments?

Our work integrates genomic, phylogenetic, biogeographic and environmental data to address these questions from a multi-disciplinary angle.

This research will contribute to protecting New Zealand's natural heritage, build capacity for genome scale projects in New Zealand, and help establish New Zealand at the cutting edge of the rapidly growing field of conservation genomics.

I am also a member of the Coastal People: Southern Skies collaboration that connects communities with world-leading, cross-discipline research to rebuild coastal ecosystems.
Coastal People: Southern Skies

He Kitenga: eDNA's species snapshot describes recent work detecting species in the diverse marine environments of Doubtful Sound and Aramoana.

Research interests

New projects include:

1. The evolution and extinction of New Zealand's Haast's eagle. Haast's eagle is a characteristic example of island gigantism. The largest raptor in the world, it went through the most extreme size increase relative to time known of any vertebrate species in the world. The causes for its extinction about 600 years ago are likely related to human arrival, but otherwise unclear. The two key objectives of this project are 1) to reconstruct the possible causes for Haast's eagle extinction and 2) to identify the functional genomic basis of island gigantism in Haast's eagle.

2. Conservation genomics. Due to their adaptions to a mammal free environment, New Zealand birds have suffered dramatic losses through introduced mammalian predators and their conservation is a major challenge. Next generation sequencing technology now allows us to address these challenges in a new way. Instead of using random and often neutral genetic markers to guide conservation efforts, complete genome data will be used to evaluate how populations of threatened bird species differ on a functional genomic level and to develop targeted conservation strategies based on these data.

Project 1 will focus on the evolution and speciation of kea, North Island kaka and South Island kaka and will investigate the feasibility of kaka translocation between the islands as a conservation strategy.

Project 2 will study the world's rarest wading bird, the endemic, critically endangered black stilt (kakī), and the threat it faces from interbreeding with its common, recently introduced sister species, the pied stilt.

Project 3 will use the genomes from all sequenced New Zealand birds to reconstruct the population dynamics of these species throughout the late Pleistocene glacial-interglacial cycles and evaluate the potential threat to each species from climate warming.

Existing projects include:

1. Reconstructing the settlement of the Pacific. The Pacific is the last frontier of human settlement. As part of the Biological Anthropology team at the University of Otago my group contributes to investigating questions relating to human migration into Remote Oceania, including: Who were the Lapita people that first moved into Remote Oceania around 3500 years ago and were they the biological ancestors of indigenous people in the Pacific today? Was there prehistoric contact between Polynesia and South America? To address these questions we are reconstructing the ancestry of early Pacific settlers using ancient DNA extracted from human remains from across the South Pacific.

2. What killed cave bear, mammoth and great auk? Before a species goes extinct it must go through a time of declining population size. The timing and mode of this final decline can be informative for identifying its cause(s). Did a species decline rapidly or slowly and what contemporaneous factors could have facilitated the decline? Are there any potential stressors that correlate strongly with the timing of the decline? To address these questions we are reconstructing the population dynamics of extinct species such as cave bear, mammoth and great auk throughout the past 50,000 years using temporal genetic analysis of radiocarbon dated subfossil remains. We are then correlating these data with known contemporary environmental parameters and potential human interference. These studies do not only give us insights into potential causes of extinct, but also help us to evaluate what makes a species particularly susceptible to extinction.

Publications

Czechowski, P., de Lange, M., Heldsinger, M., Kardailsky, A., Rayment, W., Hepburn, C., … Knapp, M. (2024). Comparison of traditional and molecular surveys of fish biodiversity in southern Te Wāhipounamu/Fiordland (Aotearoa/New Zealand). Environmental DNA, 6(e514). doi: 10.1002/edn3.514

Le, D. M., Desmond, M. J., Knapp, M., Kardailsky, O., Nelson, W. A., Zuccarello, G. C., & Hepburn, C. D. (2024). Population genetic structure of the giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Marine Biology, 171, 80. doi: 10.1007/s00227-024-04397-3

Adams, C. I. M., Jeunen, G.-J., Cross, H., Taylor, H. R., Bagnaro, A., Currie, K., Hepburn, C., Gemmell, N. J., … Knapp, M. (2023). Environmental DNA metabarcoding describes biodiversity across marine gradients. ICES Journal of Marine Science, fsad017. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1093/icesjms/fsad017

Adams, C. I. M., Hepburn, C., Jeunen, G.-J., Cross, H., Taylor, H. R., Gemmell, N. J., … Knapp, M. (2023). Environmental DNA reflects common haplotypic variation. Environmental DNA, 5, 906-919. doi: 10.1002/edn3.352

Grosser, S., Dutoit, L., Foster, Y., Robertson, F., Fidler, A. E., Martini, D., Knapp, M., & Robertson, B. C. (2023). Genomic evidence of a functional RH2 opsin in New Zealand parrots and implications for pest control. New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 50(2), 341-349. doi: 10.1080/03014223.2022.2053554

Barlow, A., Hofreiter, M., & Knapp, M. (2019). Cave bears and ancient DNA: A mutually beneficial relationship. In D. Nagel & N. Kavcik-Graumann (Eds.), Festschrift zum 80. Geburtstag von emer. Uni.-Prof Dr. Mag. Gernot Rabeder. (pp. 33-45). Vienna, Austria: Geologische Bundesanstalt.

Chapter in Book - Research

Knapp, M., & Hofreiter, M. (2014). Ancient human DNA: Phylogenetic applications. In Encyclopedia of life sciences. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0005143.pub3

Chapter in Book - Research

Knapp, M., Stiller, M., & Meyer, M. (2012). Generating barcoded libraries for multiplex high-throughput sequencing. In B. Shapiro & M. Hofreiter (Eds.), Ancient DNA: Methods and protocols: Methods in molecular biology (Vol. 840). (pp. 155-170). New York: Humana Press. doi: 10.1007/978-1-61779-516-9_19

Chapter in Book - Research

Knapp, M., Vigilant, L., & Hofreiter, M. (2008). Ancient DNA: Phylogenetic applications. In H. Kehrer-Sawatzki (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0005143.pub2

Chapter in Book - Research

Czechowski, P., de Lange, M., Heldsinger, M., Kardailsky, A., Rayment, W., Hepburn, C., … Knapp, M. (2024). Comparison of traditional and molecular surveys of fish biodiversity in southern Te Wāhipounamu/Fiordland (Aotearoa/New Zealand). Environmental DNA, 6(e514). doi: 10.1002/edn3.514

Journal - Research Article

Le, D. M., Desmond, M. J., Knapp, M., Kardailsky, O., Nelson, W. A., Zuccarello, G. C., & Hepburn, C. D. (2024). Population genetic structure of the giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Marine Biology, 171, 80. doi: 10.1007/s00227-024-04397-3

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Adams, C. I. M., Hepburn, C., Jeunen, G.-J., Cross, H., Taylor, H. R., Gemmell, N. J., … Knapp, M. (2023). Environmental DNA reflects common haplotypic variation. Environmental DNA, 5, 906-919. doi: 10.1002/edn3.352

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Adams, C. I. M., Jeunen, G.-J., Cross, H., Taylor, H. R., Bagnaro, A., Currie, K., Hepburn, C., Gemmell, N. J., … Knapp, M. (2023). Environmental DNA metabarcoding describes biodiversity across marine gradients. ICES Journal of Marine Science, fsad017. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1093/icesjms/fsad017

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Grosser, S., Dutoit, L., Foster, Y., Robertson, F., Fidler, A. E., Martini, D., Knapp, M., & Robertson, B. C. (2023). Genomic evidence of a functional RH2 opsin in New Zealand parrots and implications for pest control. New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 50(2), 341-349. doi: 10.1080/03014223.2022.2053554

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Czechowski, P., de Lange, M., Knapp, M., Terauds, A., & Stevens, M. I. (2022). Antarctic biodiversity predictions through substrate qualities and environmental DNA. Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment, 20(10), 550-557. doi: 10.1002/fee.2560

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Lubbe, P., Rawlence, N. J., Kardailsky, O., Robertson, B. C., Day, R., Knapp, M., & Dussex, N. (2022). Mitogenomes resolve the phylogeography and divergence times within the endemic New Zealand Callaeidae (Aves: Passerida). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 196, 1451-1463. doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac060

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von Seth, J., van der Valk, T., Lord, E., Sigeman, H., Olsen, R.-A., Knapp, M., Kardailsky, O., Robertson, F., … Robertson, B. C., & Dussex, N. (2022). Genomic trajectories of a near-extinction event in the Chatham Island black robin. BMC Genomics, 23, 747. doi: 10.1186/s12864-022-08963-1

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Dussex, N., van der Valk, T., Morales, H. E., Wheat, C. W., Díez-del-Molino, D., von Seth, J., Foster, Y., … Le Lec, M. F., Dearden, P. K., … Knapp, M., Gemmell, N. J., Robertson, F., … Robertson, B. C., & Dalén, L. (2021). Population genomics of the critically endangered kākāpō. Cell Genomics, 1, 100002. doi: 10.1016/j.xgen.2021.100002

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Forsdick, N. J., Martini, D., Brown, L., Cross, H. B., Maloney, R. F., Steeves, T. E., & Knapp, M. (2021). Genomic sequencing confirms absence of introgression despite past hybridisation between a critically endangered bird and its common congener. Global Ecology & Conservation, 28, e01681. doi: 10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01681

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Knapp, M., Collins, C. J., & Matisoo-Smith, E. (2021). Ancient invaders: How Paleogenetic tools help to identify and understand biological invasions of the past. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution & Systematics, 52, 111-129. doi: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-012021-100938

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Martini, D., Dussex, N., Robertson, B. C., Gemmell, N. J., & Knapp, M. (2021). Evolution of the world's only alpine parrot: Genomic adaptation or phenotypic plasticity, behaviour and ecology? Molecular Ecology, 30, 6370-6386. doi: 10.1111/mec.15978

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Rawlence, N. J., Potter, B. C. M., Dussex, N., Scarsbrook, L., Orlovich, D. A., Waters, J. M., … Knapp, M. (2021). Plio-Pleistocene environmental changes shape present day phylogeography of New Zealand’s southern beeches (Nothofagaceae). New Zealand Journal of Botany, 59(1), 55-71. doi: 10.1080/0028825X.2020.1791915

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Jeunen, G.-J., Lamare, M. D., Knapp, M., Spencer, H. G., Taylor, H. R., Stat, M., … Gemmell, N. J. (2020). Water stratification in the marine biome restricts vertical environmental DNA (eDNA) signal dispersal. Environmental DNA, 2(1), 99-111. doi: 10.1002/edn3.49

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Adams, C. I. M., Knapp, M., Gemmell, N. J., Jeunen, G.-J., Bunce, M., Lamare, M. D., & Taylor, H. R. (2019). Beyond biodiversity: Can environmental DNA (eDNA) cut it as a population genetics tool? Gene, 10(3), 192. doi: 10.3390/genes10030192

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Dussex, N., von Seth, J., Knapp, M., Kardailsky, O., Robertson, B. C., & Dalén, L. (2019). Complete genomes of two extinct New Zealand passerines show responses to climate fluctuations but no evidence for genomic erosion prior to extinction. Biology Letters, 15(9), 20190491. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2019.0491

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Galla, S. J., Forsdick, N. J., Brown, L., Hoeppner, M. P., Knapp, M., Maloney, R. F., … Steeves, T. E. (2019). Reference genomes from distantly related species can be used for discovery of single nucleotide polymorphisms to inform conservation management. Genes, 10(1), 9. doi: 10.3390/genes10010009

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Jeunen, G.-J., Knapp, M., Spencer, H. G., Lamare, M. D., Taylor, H. R., Stat, M., … Gemmell, N. J. (2019). Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding reveals strong discrimination among diverse marine habitats connected by water movement. Molecular Ecology Resources, 19, 426-438. doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.12982

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Jeunen, G.-J., Knapp, M., Spencer, H. G., Taylor, H. R., Lamare, M. D., Stat, M., … Gemmell, N. J. (2019). Species‐level biodiversity assessment using marine environmental DNA metabarcoding requires protocol optimization and standardization. Ecology & Evolution, 9, 1323-1335. doi: 10.1002/ece3.4843

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Knapp, M. (2019). From a molecules’ perspective: Contributions of ancient DNA research to understanding cave bear biology. Historical Biology, 31(4), 442-447. doi: 10.1080/08912963.2018.1434168

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Knapp, M., Thomas, J. E., Haile, J., Prost, S., Ho, S. Y. W., Dussex, N., Cameron-Christie, S., Kardailsky, O., … Scofield, R. P. (2019). Mitogenomic evidence of close relationships between New Zealand’s extinct giant raptors and small-sized Australian sister-taxa. Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution, 134, 122-128. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2019.01.026

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Thomas, J. E., Carvalho, G. R., Haile, J., Rawlence, N. J., Martin, M. D., Ho, S. Y. W., … Knapp, M. (2019). Demographic reconstruction from ancient DNA supports rapid extinction of the great auk. eLIFE, 8, e47509. doi: 10.7554/eLife.47509

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Seersholm, F. V., Cole, T. L., Grealy, A., Rawlence, N. J., Greig, K., Knapp, M., … Easton, L. J., … Walter, R., & Bunce, M. (2018). Subsistence practices, past biodiversity, and anthropogenic impacts revealed by New Zealand-wide ancient DNA survey. PNAS, 115(30), 7771-7776. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1803573115

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Chang, D., Knapp, M., Enk, J., Lippold, S., Kircher, M., Lister, A., … Czechowski, P., … Shapiro, B. (2017). The evolutionary and phylogeographic history of woolly mammoths: A comprehensive mitogenomic analysis. Scientific Reports, 7, 44585. doi: 10.1038/srep44585

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Thomas, J. E., Carvalho, G. R., Haile, J., Martin, M. D., Samaniego Castruita, J. A., Niemann, J., … Rawlence, N. J., … Knapp, M. (2017). An Aukward' tale: A genetic approach to discover the whereabouts of the last Great Auks. Genes, 8(6), 164. doi: 10.3390/genes8060164

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Galla, S. J., Buckley, T. R., Elshire, R., Hale, M. L., Knapp, M., McCallum, J., … Wilcox, P., & Steeves, T. E. (2016). Building strong relationships between conservation genetics and primary industry leads to mutually beneficial genomic advances. Molecular Ecology, 25(21), 5267-5281. doi: 10.1111/mec.13837

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Rawlence, N. J., Collins, C. J., Anderson, C. N. K., Maxwell, J. J., Smith, I. W. G., Robertson, B. C., Knapp, M., Horsburgh, K. A., Stanton, J.-A. L., Scofield, R. P., … Matisoo-Smith, E. A., & Waters, J. M. (2016). Human-mediated extirpation of the unique Chatham Islands sea lion and implications for the conservation management of remaining New Zealand sea lion populations. Molecular Ecology, 25(16), 3950-3961. doi: 10.1111/mec.13726

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Westbury, M., Prost, S., Seelenfreund, A., Ramírez, J.-M., Matisoo-Smith, E. A., & Knapp, M. (2016). First complete mitochondrial genome data from ancient South American camelids: The mystery of the chilihueques from Isla Mocha (Chile). Scientific Reports, 6, 38708. doi: 10.1038/srep38708

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Knapp, M., Lalueza-Fox, C., & Hofreiter, M. (2015). Re-inventing ancient human DNA. Investigative Genetics, 6, 4. doi: 10.1186/s13323-015-0020-4

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Bohman, K., Evans, A., Gilbert, M. T. P., Carvalho, G. R., Creer, S., Knapp, M., … de Bruyn, M. (2014). Environmental DNA for wildlife biology and biodiversity monitoring. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 29(6), 358-367. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.04.003

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Collins, C. J., Rawlence, N. J., Prost, S., Anderson, C. N. K., Knapp, M., Scofield, R. P., Robertson, B. C., Smith, I., Matisoo-Smith, E. A., … Waters, J. M. (2014). Extinction and recolonization of coastal megafauna following human arrival in New Zealand. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 281, 20140097. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2014.0097

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Collins, C. J., Rawlence, N. J., Worthy, T. H., Scofield, R. P., Tennyson, A. J. D., Smith, I., Knapp, M., & Waters, J. M. (2014). Pre-human New Zealand sea lion (Phocarctos hookeri) rookeries on mainland New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 44(1), 1-16. doi: 10.1080/03036758.2013.828761

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Goldberg, J., Knapp, M., Emberson, R. M., Townsend, J. I., & Trewick, S. A. (2014). Species radiation of carabid beetles (Broscini: Mecodema) in New Zealand. PLoS ONE, 9(1), e86185. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086185

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King, T. E., Fortes, G. G., Balaresque, P., Thomas, M. G., Balding, D., Delser, P. M., … Knapp, M., … Schürer, K. (2014). Identification of the remains of King Richard III. Nature Communications, 5, 5631. doi: 10.1038/ncomms6631

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Stiller, M., Molak, M., Prost, S., Rabeder, G., Baryshnikov, G., Rosendahl, W., … Knapp, M. (2014). Mitochondrial DNA diversity and evolution of the Pleistocene cave bear complex. Quaternary International, 339-340, 224-231. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2013.09.023

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Dabney, J., Knapp, M., Glocke, I., Gansauge, M.-T., Weihmann, A., Nickel, B., … Meyer, M. (2013). Complete mitochondrial genome sequence of a Middle Pleistocene cave bear reconstructed from ultrashort DNA fragments. PNAS, 110(39), 15758-15763. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1314445110

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Knapp, M., Clarke, A. C., Horsburgh, K. A., & Matisoo-Smith, E. A. (2012). Setting the stage-building and working in an ancient DNA laboratory. Annals of Anatomy, 194(1), 3-6. doi: 10.1016/j.aanat.2011.03.008

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Knapp, M., Horsburgh, K. A., Prost, S., Stanton, J.-A., Buckley, H. R., Walter, R. K., & Matisoo-Smith, E. A. (2012). Complete mitochondrial DNA genome sequences from the first New Zealanders. PNAS, 109(45), 18350-18354. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1209896109

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Knapp, M. (2011). The next generation of genetic investigations into the Black Death. PNAS, 108(38), 15669-15670. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1112574108

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Lippold, S., Knapp, M., Kuznetsova, T., Leonard, J. A., Benecke, N., Ludwig, A., … Hofreiter, M. (2011). Discovery of lost diversity of paternal horse lineages using ancient DNA. Nature Communications, 2, 450-455. doi: 10.1038/ncomms1447

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Knapp, M., & Hofreiter, M. (2010). Next generation sequencing of ancient DNA: Requirements, strategies and persectives. Genes, 1(2), 227-243. doi: 10.3390/genes1020227

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Knapp, M., Finstermeier, K., Horn, S., Stiller, M., & Hofreiter, M. (2010). Multiplex-PCR: Neue PCR-technologien für alte DNA [Multiplex-PCR: New PCR technologies for ancient DNA]. Biospektrum, 5, 531-535.

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Prost, S., Knapp, M., Flemmig, J., Hufthammer, A. K., Kosintsev, P., Stiller, M., & Hofreiter, M. (2010). A phantom extinction? New insights into extinction dynamics of the Don-hare Lepus tanaiticus. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 23(9), 2022-2029. doi: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02062.x

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Prost, S., Smirnov, N., Fedorov, V. B., Sommer, R. S., Stiller, M., Nagel, D., Knapp, M., & Hofreiter, M. (2010). Influence of climate warming on arctic mammals? New insights from ancient DNA studies of the collared lemming Dicrostonyx torquatus. PLoS ONE, 5(5), e10447. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010447

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Stiller, M., Baryshnikov, G., Bocherens, H., d'Anglade, A. G., Hilpert, B., Münzel, S. C., … Knapp, M. (2010). Withering away: 25,000 years of genetic decline preceded cave bear extinction. Molecular Biology & Evolution, 27(5), 975-978. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msq083

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Knapp, M., Rohland, N., Weinstock, J., Baryshnikov, G., Sher, A., Nagel, D., … Horfreiter, M. (2009). First DNA sequences from Asian cave bear fossils reveal deep divergences and complex phylogeographic patterns. Molecular Ecology, 18, 1225-1238. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04088.x

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Stiller, M., Knapp, M., Stenzel, U., Hofreiter, M., & Meyer, M. (2009). Direct multiplex sequencing (DMPS): A novel method for targeted high-throughput sequencing of ancient and highly degraded DNA. Genome Research, 19, 1843-1848. doi: 10.1101/gr.095760.109

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Knapp, M., Mudaliar, R., Havell, D., Wagstaff, S. J., & Lockhart, P. J. (2007). The drowning of New Zealand and the problem of Agathis. Systematic Biology, 56(5), 862-870. doi: 10.1080/10635150701636412

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Knapp, M., Stöckler, K., Havell, D., Delsuc, F., Sebastiani, F., & Lockhart, P. J. (2005). Relaxed molecular clock provides evidence for long-distance dispersal of Nothofagus (Southern Beech). PLoS Biology, 3(1), e14.

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Dussex, N., & Knapp, M. (2022). Back from the brink: How genome research is helping the recovery of the Chatham Island black robin. The Conversation. Retrieved from https://theconversation.com/back-from-the-brink-how-genome-research-is-helping-the-recovery-of-the-chatham-island-black-robin-194319

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McDonald, S. K., Matisoo-Smith, E. A., Buckley, H. R., Walter, R. K., Aung, H. L., Collins, C. J., Cook, G. M., Kardailsky, O., Krause, K., & Knapp, M. (2020). 'TB or not TB': The conundrum of pre-European contact tuberculosis in the Pacific. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 375, 20190583. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0583

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Russello, M., Amato, G., DeSalle, R., & Knapp, M. (2020). Conservation genetics and genomics. Genes, 11(3), 318. doi: 10.3390/genes11030318

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Rawlence, N. J., Scofield, R. P., McGlone, M. S., & Knapp, M. (2019). History repeats: Large scale synchronous biological turnover in avifauna from the Plio-Pleistocene and Late Holocene of New Zealand. Frontiers in Ecology & Evolution, 7, 158. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2019.00158

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Halcrow, S. E., Killgrove, K., Robbins Schug, G., Knapp, M., Huffer, D., Arriaza, B., … Gunter, J. (2018). On engagement with anthropology: A critical evaluation of skeletal and developmental abnormalities in the Atacama preterm baby and issues of forensic and bioarcheological research ethics. Response to Bhattacharya et al. "Whole genome sequencing of Atacama skeleton shows novel mutations linked with dysplasia" in Genome Research, 2018, 28: 423-431. Doi: 10.1101/gr.223693.117 [Brief communication]. International Journal of Paleopathology, 22, 97-100. doi: 10.1101/gr.223693.117

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