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Ian Barnes is affiliated with the Natural History Museum in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Environmental Science. Their research primarily focuses on Genetics, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Paleontology, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their work spans multiple topics including Genetic diversity and population structure, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Forensic and Genetic Research, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, and Plant and animal studies.

Recent publications by Ian Barnes include:

  • MitoHiFi: a python pipeline for mitochondrial genome assembly from PacBio high fidelity reads, 2023, BMC Bioinformatics
  • A DNA barcoding framework for taxonomic verification in the Darwin Tree of Life Project, 2024, Wellcome Open Research
  • A sampling strategy for genome sequencing the British terrestrial arthropod fauna, 2023, Wellcome Open Research
  • Sequence locally, think globally: The Darwin Tree of Life Project, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Million-year-old DNA sheds light on the genomic history of mammoths, 2021, Nature

Ian Barnes has published frequently in venues such as:

  • Wellcome Open Research
  • Nature
  • Scientific Reports
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • Cambridge Archaeological Journal

Frequent collaborators in their research include Selina Brace, Gavin R. Broad, Liam M Crowley, Inez Januszczak, and Benjamin Price.

Best Publications

  • Refugia revisited: individualistic responses of species in space and time

    John R. Stewart;Adrian M. Lister;Ian Barnes;Love Dalén

  • The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe

    Iñigo Olalde;Selina Brace;Morten E. Allentoft;Ian Armit

  • Rise and Fall of the Beringian Steppe Bison

    Beth Shapiro;Alexei J. Drummond;Andrew Rambaut;Michael C. Wilson

  • Assessing ancient DNA studies.

    M. Thomas P. Gilbert;Hans-Jürgen Bandelt;Michael Hofreiter;Ian Barnes

  • The genome of a Late Pleistocene human from a Clovis burial site in western Montana

    Morten Arendt Rendt Rasmussen;Sarah L. Anzick;Michael R. Waters;Pontus Skoglund

  • Dynamics of Pleistocene population extinctions in Beringian brown bears.

    I. Barnes;P. Matheus;B. Shapiro;D. Jensen

  • Ancient proteins resolve the evolutionary history of Darwin’s South American ungulates

    Frido Welker;Matthew J. Collins;Jessica A. Thomas;Marc Wadsley

  • Bacillus subtilis isolated from the human gastrointestinal tract.

    Huynh A. Hong;Reena Khaneja;Nguyen M.K. Tam;Alessia Cazzato

  • Distribution Patterns of Postmortem Damage in Human Mitochondrial DNA

    M. Thomas P. Gilbert;Eske Willerslev;Anders J. Hansen;Ian Barnes

  • Ancient DNA reveals late survival of mammoth and horse in interior Alaska

    James Haile;Duane G. Froese;Ross D. E. MacPhee;Richard G. Roberts

  • Characterization of genetic miscoding lesions caused by postmortem damage

    M. Thomas P. Gilbert;Anders J. Hansen;Eske Willerslev;Lars Rudbeck

  • Ancient Hybridization and an Irish Origin for the Modern Polar Bear Matriline

    Ceiridwen J. Edwards;Marc A. Suchard;Philippe Lemey;John J. Welch

  • Million-year-old DNA sheds light on the genomic history of mammoths

    Tom van der Valk;Tom van der Valk;Patrícia Pečnerová;Patrícia Pečnerová;Patrícia Pečnerová;David Díez-del-Molino;David Díez-del-Molino;Anders Bergström

  • Multiplex amplification of the mammoth mitochondrial genome and the evolution of Elephantidae

    Johannes Krause;Paul H. Dear;Joshua L. Pollack;Montgomery Slatkin

  • Estimating the phylogeny and divergence times of primates using a supermatrix approach

    Helen J Chatterjee;Simon Y W Ho;Simon Y W Ho;Ian Barnes;Colin Groves

  • Palaeoproteomic evidence identifies archaic hominins associated with the Châtelperronian at the Grotte du Renne

    Frido Welker;Frido Welker;Mateja Hajdinjak;Sahra Talamo;Klervia Jaouen

  • Long-term persistence of bacterial DNA.

    Eske Willerslev;Eske Willerslev;Anders J. Hansen;Regin Rønn;Tina B. Brand

  • Phylogeography of lions ( Panthera leo ssp.) reveals three distinct taxa and a late Pleistocene reduction in genetic diversity

    Ross Barnett;Beth Shapiro;Ian Barnes;Simon Y. W. Ho

  • Ancient genomes indicate population replacement in Early Neolithic Britain

    Selina Brace;Yoan Diekmann;Thomas J. Booth;Lucy van Dorp

  • A molecular analysis of dietary diversity for three archaic Native Americans

    Hendrik N. Poinar;Melanie Kuch;Kristin D. Sobolik;Ian Barnes

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark G. Thomas
Mark G. Thomas University College London
Adrian M. Lister
Adrian M. Lister Natural History Museum
Love Dalén
Love Dalén Stockholm University
Alan Cooper
Alan Cooper Charles Sturt University
Eske Willerslev
Eske Willerslev University of Copenhagen
David Reich
David Reich Harvard Medical School
Swapan Mallick
Swapan Mallick Harvard Medical School
Samuel T. Turvey
Samuel T. Turvey Zoological Society of London
Beth Shapiro
Beth Shapiro University of California, Santa Cruz
M. Thomas P. Gilbert
M. Thomas P. Gilbert University of Copenhagen

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