Publications – Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics

2023

Joanna Religa-Sobczyk, Michał Wojenka, Mateusz Baca, Danijela Popović, Piotr Wojtal: Guinea pig remains from the XVIth century Ojców castle (southern Poland); Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Volume 52, 2023,104293. doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104293
Michał Wojenka, Bartosz Kontny, Marzena Przybyła, Anita Szczepanek, Elżbieta Jaskulska, Zdzislaw Belka, Rafał Fetner, Tomasz Goslar, Grzegorz Czajka, Danijela Popović, Mateusz Baca, Jarosław Wilczyński, Małgorzata Kot: Cave funeral practices during the Roman and Migration Periods in the Cracow Upland, southern Poland; Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. Volume 52, 2023, 104250. doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104250
Hanna Panagiotopoulou, Kacper Marzecki, Jan Gawor, Heiner Kuhl, Michał Koper, Piotr Weglenski, Magdalena Fajkowska, Mirosław Szczepkowski, Mateusz Baca, Joern Gessner, Magdalena Płecha, Małgorzata Rzepkowska: Extensive search of genetic sex markers in Siberian (Acipenser baerii) and Atlantic (A. oxyrinchus) sturgeons; Aquaculture, Volume 573, 2023, 739517. org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2023.739517
Mateusz Baca, Danijela Popović, Alexander K Agadzhanyan, Katarzyna Baca, Nicholas J Conard, Helen Fewlass, Thomas Filek, Michał Golubiński, Ivan Horáček, Monika V Knul, Magdalena Krajcarz, Maria Krokhaleva, Loïc Lebreton, Anna Lemanik, Lutz C Maul, Doris Nagel, Pierre Noiret, Jérome Primault, Leonid Rekovets, Sara E Rhodes, Aurélien Royer, Natalia V Serdyuk, Marie Soressi, John R Stewart, Tatiana Strukova, Sahra Talamo, Jarosław Wilczyński, Adam Nadachowski: Ancient DNA of narrow-headed vole reveal common features of the Late Pleistocene population dynamics in cold-adapted small mammals; Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Volume 290, Issue 1993.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.2238
Letizia Ceregatti, Claudio Berto, Helen Fewlass, Mateusz Baca, Elisa Luzi, Greta Brancaleoni, Andrea Pereswiet-Soltan, Marco Peresani: Integration of direct radiocarbon dating, genetic studies and taxonomy of small mammals to investigate the chronology of past climatic oscillations: The Last Glacial Maximum sequence of Grotta della Ferrovia (Fabriano, Italy); Quaternary Science Reviews, Volume 309, 2023, 108095. org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108095
Nadachowski Adam, Anna Lemanik, Laure Fontana, Danijela Popović, Michał Golubiński, Barbara Bujalska, Mateusz Baca: Ancient DNA Contradicts the Presence of Social Voles (Genus Microtus,Subgenus Sumeriomys) in the Late Pleistocene of Western Europe; Diversity 2023, 15(4), 538; org/10.3390/d15040538
Stefaniak Krzysztof, Kotowski Adam, Badura Janusz, Sobczyk Artur, Borówka Ryszard K., Stachowicz-Rybka Renata, Moskal-del Hoyo Magdalena, Hrynowiecka Anna, Tomkowiak Julita, Sławińska Joanna, Przybylski Bogusław, Ciszek Dariusz, Alexandrowicz Witold Paweł, Skoczylas-Śniaz Sylwia, Ratajczak-Skrzatek Urszula, Shpansky Andrei V., Ilyina Svetlana A., Moska Piotr, Urbański Krzysztof, Mirosław-Grabowska Joanna, Niska Monika, Capalbo Chiara, Nowakowski Dariusz, van der Made Jan, Popović Danijela, Baca Mateusz, Billia Emmanuel M.E.: A skeleton of peat-trapped forest rhinoceros Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis (Jäger, 1839) from Gorzów Wielkopolski, Northwestern Poland: a record of life and death of the Eemian large mammals; Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie 2023, p.44-77; doi: 1127/njgpa/2023/1129
Maciej T Krajcarz, Mateusz Baca, Chris Baumann, Hervé Bocherens, Tomasz Goslar, Danijela Popović, Magdalena Sudoł-Procyk, Magdalena Krajcarz: NEW INSIGHTS INTO LATE PLEISTOCENE CAVE HYENA CHRONOLOGY AND POPULATION HISTORY—THE CASE OF PERSPEKTYWICZNA CAVE, POLAND; Radiocarbon Volume 65 Issue 5, p 1038–1056; doi:10.1017/RDC.2023.89
Erik J. Marsh, Alexei Vranich, Deborah Blom, Maria Bruno, Katharine Davis, Jonah Augustine, Nicole C. Couture, Santiago Ancapichún, Kelly J. Knudson, Danijela Popović, Gianni Cunietti: The center cannot hold: A Bayesian chronology for the collapse of Tiwanaku; Plos ONE 19(6): e0305498; doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0305498

2022

Anwesha Saha, Mateusz Baca, Danijela Popović, Zeinolabedin Mohammadi, Urban Olsson, Łucja Fostowicz-Frelik: The first complete mitochondrial genome data of the pygmy rabbit Brachylagus idahoensis, the world’s smallest leporid; Data in Brief Volume 42, June 2022, 108314; org/10.1016/j.dib.2022.108314
Paweł Valde-Nowak, Mateusz Baca, Magda Cieśla, Julia Kościuk-Załupka, Anna Kraszewska, Anna Lemanik, Adam Nadachowski, Danijela Popović, Jakub Skłucki, Marian Sojak: Hučivá Cave: a Magdalenian hunting camp in the Tatra Mountains; Antiquity Volume 96 Issue 388; doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2022.60
Mateusz Baca, Danijela Popović, Anna Lemanik, Sandra Bañuls‐Cardona, Nicholas J Conard, Gloria Cuenca‐Bescós, Emmanuel Desclaux, Helen Fewlass, Jesus T Garcia, Tereza Hadravova, Gerald Heckel, Ivan Horáček, Monika Vlasta Knul, Loïc Lebreton, Juan Manuel López‐García, Elisa Luzi, Zoran Marković, Jadranka Mauch Lenardić, Xabier Murelaga, Pierre Noiret, Alexandru Petculescu, Vasil Popov, Sara E Rhodes, Bogdan Ridush, Aurélien Royer, John R Stewart, Joanna Stojak, Sahra Talamo, Xuejing Wang, Jan M Wójcik, Adam Nadachowski: Ancient DNA reveals interstadials as a driver of common vole population dynamics during the last glacial period; Journal of Biogeography Volume 50 Issue 1; doi: 10.1111/jbi.14521
Edana Lord, Aurelio Marangoni, Mateusz Baca, Danijela Popović, Anna V. Goropashnaya, John R. Stewart, Monika V. Knul, Pierre Noiret, Mietje Germonpré, Elodie-Laure Jimenez, Natalia I. Abramson, Sergey Vartanyan, Stefan Prost, Nickolay G. Smirnov, Elena A. Kuzmina, Remi-André Olsen, Vadim B. Fedorov, Love Dalén: Population dynamics and demographic history of Eurasian collared lemmings; BMC ecology and evolution 126 (2022); doi.org/10.1186/s12862-022-02081-y
Magdalena Krajcarz, Wim Van Neer, Maciej T Krajcarz, Danijela Popović, Mateusz Baca, Bea De Cupere, Quentin Goffette, Hans Christian Küchelmann, Anna Gręzak, Urszula Iwaszczuk, Claudio Ottoni, Katrien Van de Vijver, Jarosław Wilczyński, Anna Mulczyk, Jan Wiejacki, Daniel Makowiecki, Hervé Bocherens: Stable isotopes unveil one millennium of domestic cat paleoecology in Europe; Scientific Reports (2022) 12:12775; doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-16969-8
Magdalena Krajcarz, Maciej T. Krajcarz, Mateusz Baca, Michał Golubiński, Zora Bielichová, Jelena Bulatović, Péter Csippán, Vesna Dimitrijević, René Kyselý, Daniel Makowiecki,Adrian Marciszak, Nemanja Marković, Mladen Mladenović, Wim Van Neer, Theodor Obada, Ivana Živaljević, Aleksandar Bulatović,Vujadin Ivanišević, Stefan Pop-Lazić, Dušan Mihailović, Adam Ostasz, Kristina Penezić, Nenad Tasić, Perica Špehar, Jarosław Wilczyński & Danijela Popović: The history of the domestic cat in Central Europe; Antiquity 2022 Vol. 96 (390): 1628–1633; doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2022.128

2021

Karolina Doan,Magdalena Niedziałkowska, Krzysztof Stefaniak, Maciej Sykut, Bogumiła Jędrzejewska, Urszula Ratajczak-Skrzatek, Natalia Piotrowska, Bogdan Ridush, Frank E Zachos, Danijela Popović, Mateusz Baca, Paweł Mackiewicz, Pavel Kosintsev, Daniel Makowiecki, Maxim Charniauski, Gennady Boeskorov, Alexey Anatolievich Bondarev, Gabriel Danila, Josip Kusak, Eve Rannamäe, Urmas Saarma, Marine Arakelyan, Ninna Manaseryan, Dariusz Krasnodębski, Vadim Titov, Pavel Hulva, Adrian Bălășescu, Katerina Trantalidou, Vesna Dimitrijević, Andrey Shpansky, Oleksandr Kovalchuk, Alexey M Klementiev, Irina Foronova, Dmitriy G Malikov, Anna Juras, Pavel Nikolskiy, Semyon Egorovich Grigoriev, Maksim Yurievich Cheprasov, Gavril Petrovich Novgorodov, Alexandr Dmitrievich Sorokin, Jarosław Wilczyński, Albert Vasilievich Protopopov, Grzegorz Lipecki, Ana Stanković: Phylogenetics and phylogeography of red deer mtDNA lineages during the last 50 000 years in Eurasia; Zoological journal of the Linnean Society, 2022, 194, 431–456; doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab025
Michał Wojenka, Elżbieta Jaskulska, Danijela Popović, Mateusz Baca, Frog, Rafał Fetner, Krzysztof Wertz, Karolina Rataj, Natalia Gryczewska, Tymoteusz Kosiński and Małgorzata Kot: The girl with finches: a unique post-medieval burial in Tunel Wielki Cave, southern Poland; Praehistorische Zeitschrift Vol.96 Issue 1; doi.org/10.1515/pz-2021-0008
Chris Baumann, Saskia Pfrengle, Susanne C. Münzel, Martyna Molak, Tatiana R. Feuerborn, Abagail Breidenstein, Ella Reiter, Gerd Albrecht, Claus-Joachim Kind, Christian Verjux, Charlotte Leduc, Nicholas J. Conard, Dorothée G. Drucker, Liane Giemsch, Olaf Thalmann, Hervé Bocherens & Verena J. Schuenemann: A refined proposal for the origin of dogs: the case study of Gnirshöhle, a Magdalenian cave site; Scientific reports (2021) 11:5137; doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-83719-7
Danijela Popović, Martyna Molak, Mariusz Ziółkowski, Alexei Vranich, Maciej Sobczyk, Delfor Ulloa Vidaurre , Guido Agresti, Magdalena Skrzypczak, Krzysztof Ginalski, Thiseas Christos Lamnidis, Nathan Nakatsuka, Swapan Mallick, Mateusz Baca: Ancient genomes reveal long-range influence of the pre-Columbian culture and site of Tiwanaku; Science Advances 2021; 7 : eabg7261; doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abg7261
Mateusz Baca, Danijela Popović, Anna Lemanik, Helen Fewlass, Sahra Talamo, Jan Zima, Bogdan Ridush, Vasil Popov, Adam Nadachowski: The Tien Shan vole (Microtus ilaeus; Rodentia: Cricetidae) as a new species in the Late Pleistocene of Europe; Ecology and Evolution 2021;11:16113–16125; doi: 10.1002/ece3.8289
Saskia Pfrengle, Judith Neukamm, Meriam Guellil, Marcel Keller, Martyna Molak, Charlotte Avanzi, Alena Kushniarevich, Núria Montes, Gunnar U. Neumann, Ella Reiter, Rezeda I. Tukhbatova, Nataliya Y. Berezina, Alexandra P. Buzhilova, Dmitry S. Korobov, Stian Suppersberger Hamre, Vitor M. J. Matos, Maria T. Ferreira, Laura González-Garrido, Sofia N. Wasterlain, Célia Lopes, Ana Luisa Santos, Nathalie Antunes-Ferreira, Vitória Duarte, Ana Maria Silva, Linda Melo, Natasa Sarkic, Lehti Saag, Kristiina Tambets, Philippe Busso, Stewart T. Cole, Alexei Avlasovich, Charlotte A. Roberts, Alison Sheridan, Craig Cessford, John Robb, Johannes Krause, Christiana L. Scheib, Sarah A. Inskip & Verena J. Schuenemann : Mycobacterium leprae diversity and population dynamics in medieval Europe from novel ancient genomes, BMC Biology (2021) 19:220; doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-01120-2

2020

DanijelaPopović, Velia Mendoza España, Mariusz Ziółkowski, Piotr Weglenski, Mateusz Baca: Molecular species assignment and dating of putative pre-Columbian dog remains excavated from Bolivia; Journal of Archaeological Sciences: Reports 31 (2020) 10227; doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102273
Mateusz Baca, Danijela Popović, Katarzyna Baca, Anna Lemanik, Karolina Doan, Ivan Horáček, Juan Manuel López-Garcia, Sandra Bañuls-Cardona, Piroska Pazonyi, Emmanuel Desclaux, Evelyne Crégut-Bonnoure, Claudio Berto, Jadranka Mauch Lenardić, Barbara Miękina, Xabier Murelaga, Gloria Cuenca-Bescós, Magdalena Krajcarz, Zoran Marković, Alexandru Petculescu, Jarosław Wilczyński, Monika Vlasta Knul, John R. Stewart, Adam Nadachowski: Diverse responses of common vole (Microtus arvalis) populations to Late Glacial and Early Holocene climate changes – Evidence from ancient DNA; Quaternary Science Reviews Volume 233, 2020, 106239; doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106239
Anna Lemanik, Mateusz Baca, Krzysztof Wertz, Paweł Socha, Danijela Popović, Teresa Tomek, Grzegorz Lipecki, Anna Kraszewska, Barbara Miękina, Aleksandra Żeromska, Andrea Pereswiet-Soltan, Zbigniew Szyndlar, Magda Cieśla, Paweł Valde-Nowak, Paweł Mackiewicz & Adam Nadachowski: The impact of major warming at 14.7 ka on environmental changes and activity of Final Palaeolithic hunters at a local scale (Orawa-Nowy Targ Basin, Western Carpathians, Poland; Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2020) 12: 66; doi.org/10.1007/s12520-020-01020-6
Magdalena Krajcarz, Maciej T. Krajcarz, Mateusz Baca, Chris Baumannd, Wim Van Neerg, Danijela Popović, Magdalena Sudoł-Procyka, Bartosz Wach, Jarosław Wilczynski , Michał Wojenka, Hervé Bocherens: Ancestors of domestic cats in Neolithic Central Europe: Isotopic evidence of a synanthropic diet; PNAS 2020, vol. 117 no. 30; doi/10.1073/pnas.1918884117
Judith Neukamm, Saskia Pfrengle, Martyna Molak, Alexander Seitz, Michael Francken, Partick Eppenberger, Charlotte Avanzi, Ella Reiter, Christian Urban, Beatrix Welte, Philipp W. Stockhammer, Barbara Teßmann, Alexander Herbig, Katerina Harvati, Kay Nieselt, Johannes Krause & Verena J. Schuenemann: 2000-year-old pathogen genomes reconstructed from metagenomic analysis of Egyptian mummified individuals; BMC Biology (2020) 18:108; doi.org/10.1186/s12915-020-00839-8
Irina Morozova, Artem Kasianov, Sergey Bruskin, Judith Neukamm, Martyna Molak, Elena Batieva, Aleksandra Pudło, Frank J. Rühliand Verena J. Schuenemann: New ancient Eastern European Yersinia pestis genomes illuminate the dispersal of plague in Europe; Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375: 20190569; doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.056

Earlier

Palkopoulou E, Baca M et al. (2016) Synchronous genetic turnovers across Western Eurasia in Late Pleistocene collared lemmings. Global Change Biology. 22(5):1710–1721.
Popović D, Szczepkowski M, Heese T, Weglenski P (2016) Introgression of peled (Coregonus peled) into European whitefish (C. lavaretus) in Poland. Conservation Genetics. 17(2), 503-508.
Krajcarz M, Makowiecki D, Krajcarz M.T, Masłowska A, Baca M, Panagiotopoulou H, Bednarczyk J, Romańska A, Gręzak A, Sudoł M (2015) On the Trail of the Oldest Domestic Cat in Poland. An Insight from Morphometry, Ancient DNA and Radiocarbon Dating. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. DOI: 10.1002/oa.2471
Popovic D, Baca M, Panagiotopoulou H (2015). Complete mitochondrial genome sequences of Atlantic sturgeon, Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus, Gulf sturgeon, A. o. desotoi and European sturgeon A. sturio (Acipenseriformes: Acipenseridae) obtained through next generation sequencing. Mitochondrial DNA. DOI:10.3109/19401736.2015.1038799
Shafer ABA, Wolf JBW, Alves PC, Bergström L, Bruford MW, Brännström I, Colling G, Dalén L, De Meester L, Ekblom R, Fawcett KD, Fior S, Hajibabaei M, Hill JA, Hoezel AR, Höglund J, Jensen EL, Krause J, Kristensen TN, Krützen M, McKay JK, Norman AJ, Ogden R, Österling EM, Ouborg NJ, Piccolo J, Popović D et al. (2015) Genomics and the challenging translation into conservation practice. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 30(2) 78–87
Baca M, Molak M, Sobczyk M, Węgleński P, Stankovic A (2014). Locals, resettlers, and pilgrims: A genetic portrait of three pre‐Columbian Andean populations. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 154(3), 402-412
Popović D, Panagiotopoulou H, Baca M, Stefaniak K, Mackiewicz P, Makowiecki D, King T.L, Gruchota J, Weglenski P, Stankovic A (2014). The history of sturgeon in the Baltic Sea. Journal of Biogeography. 41(8), 1590-1602
Baca M, Mackiewicz P, Stankovic A, Popović D et al. (2014) Ancient DNA and dating of cave bear remains from Niedźwiedzia Cave suggest early appearance of Ursus ingressus in Sudetes. Quaternary International. 339, 217-223
Baca M, Doan K, , Stankovic A, Weglenski P. (2012) Ancient DNA reveals kinship burial patterns of a pre-Columbian Andean community. BMC Genetics. 13(1):1-11.
Baca M, Stankovic A, Stefaniak K, Marciszak A, Hofreiter M, Nadachowski A, Węgleński P, Mackiewicz P. (2012) Genetic analysis of cave bear specimens from Niedźwiedzia Cave, Sudetes, Poland. Palaeontologia Electronica. 15(2):21A,16p