Widespread male sex bias in mammal fossil and museum collections

• Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• Main Authors: Gower, G., Fenderson, L.E., Salis, A.T., Helgen, K.M., van Loenen, A.L., Heiniger, H., Hofman-Kamińska, E., Kowalczyk, R., Mitchell, K.J., Llamas, B., Cooper, A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: National Academy of Sciences 2019
• Subjects: ancient DNA; bison; brown bears; sex bias; sex ratio; Kowalczyk; Ursus arctos
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2440/122532; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1903275116

A recent study of mammoth subfossil remains has demonstrated the potential of using relatively low-coverage high-throughput DNA sequencing to genetically sex specimens, revealing a strong male-biased sex ratio [P. Pečnerová et al., Curr. Biol. 27, 3505-3510.e3 (2017)]. Similar patterns were predicte...