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Overview

Love Dalén is affiliated with the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Sweden and is active in research fields related to biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and environmental science. Their publication record spans significant subfields including genetics, molecular biology, ecology, paleontology, and anthropology.

Thematic focus areas in Dalén's work include genetic diversity and population structure, genomics and phylogenetic studies, genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, wildlife ecology and conservation, forensic and genetic research, environmental DNA in biodiversity studies, and identification and quantification in food.

Dalén has published frequently in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Current Biology, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Science, and Cell. These journals reflect the interdisciplinary nature of their studies ranging from molecular biology to environmental and evolutionary science.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Dalén include:

  • Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics, 2020, Nature
  • Million-year-old DNA sheds light on the genomic history of mammoths, 2021, Nature
  • Origins and genetic legacy of prehistoric dogs, 2020, Science
  • Population genomics of the critically endangered kākāpō, 2021, Cell Genomics
  • The evolution and changing ecology of the African hominid oral microbiome, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Collaborative research is a notable aspect of Dalén's scientific activity, with frequent co-authors including David Díez-del-Molino, Nicolás Dussex, Tom van der Valk, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, and Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding. These collaborations suggest active engagement with teams working across genetics, genomics, and conservation biology.

Best Publications

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

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

  • Genomics and the challenging translation into conservation practice

    Aaron B. A. Shafer;Jochen B. W. Wolf;Paulo C. Alves;Linnea Bergstrom

  • Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics.

    Shaohong Feng;Josefin Stiller;Yuan Deng;Joel Armstrong;Joel Armstrong

  • Ancient Wolf Genome Reveals an Early Divergence of Domestic Dog Ancestors and Admixture into High-Latitude Breeds

    Pontus Skoglund;Pontus Skoglund;Pontus Skoglund;Erik Ersmark;Erik Ersmark;Eleftheria Palkopoulou;Eleftheria Palkopoulou;Love Dalén

  • Population genomics reveal recent speciation and rapid evolutionary adaptation in polar bears.

    Shiping Liu;Eline D. Lorenzen;Matteo Fumagalli;Bo Li

  • Complete genomes reveal signatures of demographic and genetic declines in the woolly mammoth.

    Eleftheria Palkopoulou;Eleftheria Palkopoulou;Swapan Mallick;Swapan Mallick;Swapan Mallick;Pontus Skoglund;Pontus Skoglund;Pontus Skoglund;Jacob Enk

  • Whole-genome shotgun sequencing of mitochondria from ancient hair shafts

    M. Thomas P. Gilbert;Lynn P. Tomsho;Snjezana Rendulic;Michael Packard

  • 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

  • Origins and genetic legacy of prehistoric dogs

    Anders Bergström;Laurent Frantz;Laurent Frantz;Ryan Schmidt;Ryan Schmidt;Erik Ersmark

  • Quantifying Temporal Genomic Erosion in Endangered Species

    David Díez-del-Molino;Fatima Sánchez-Barreiro;Ian Barnes;M. Thomas P. Gilbert;M. Thomas P. Gilbert

  • Population genomics of the critically endangered kākāpō

    Nicolas Dussex;Tom van der Valk;Hernán E. Morales;Christopher W. Wheat

  • Population history and genetic structure of a circumpolar species: the arctic fox

    Love Dalén;Eva Fuglei;Páll Hersteinsson;Christian M. O. Kapel

  • A comprehensive genomic history of extinct and living elephants

    Eleftheria Palkopoulou;Eleftheria Palkopoulou;Mark Lipson;Swapan Mallick;Swapan Mallick;Svend Nielsen

  • Historical genomes reveal the genomic consequences of recent population decline in eastern gorillas

    Tom van der Valk;David Díez-del-Molino;Tomas Marques-Bonet;Katerina Guschanski

  • Ancient DNA reveals lack of postglacial habitat tracking in the arctic fox

    Love Dalén;Veronica Nyström;Cristina Valdiosera;Mietje Germonpré

  • Early Pleistocene enamel proteome from Dmanisi resolves Stephanorhinus phylogeny

    Enrico Cappellini;Frido Welker;Frido Welker;Luca Pandolfi;Jazmín Ramos-Madrigal

  • Extensive Human DNA Contamination in Extracts from Ancient Dog Bones and Teeth

    Helena Malmström;Jan Storå;Love Dalén;Gunilla Holmlund

  • Intraspecific phylogenetic analysis of Siberian woolly mammoths using complete mitochondrial genomes

    M. Thomas P. Gilbert;Daniela I. Drautz;Arthur M. Lesk;Simon Y.W. Ho

  • Purging and accumulation of genetic load in conservation.

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  • The mitochondrial genome sequence of the Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus)

    Webb Miller;Daniela I. Drautz;Jan E. Janecka;Arthur M. Lesk

  • Partial genomic survival of cave bears in living brown bears

    Axel Barlow;James A. Cahill;Stefanie Hartmann;Christoph Theunert;Christoph Theunert

Frequent Co-Authors

M. Thomas P. Gilbert
M. Thomas P. Gilbert University of Copenhagen
Anders Angerbjörn
Anders Angerbjörn Stockholm University
Anders Götherström
Anders Götherström Stockholm University
Beth Shapiro
Beth Shapiro University of California, Santa Cruz
Eske Willerslev
Eske Willerslev University of Copenhagen
Michael Hofreiter
Michael Hofreiter University of Potsdam
Ian Barnes
Ian Barnes Natural History Museum
Ludovic Orlando
Ludovic Orlando Paul Sabatier University
Guojie Zhang
Guojie Zhang Zhejiang University
Tomas Marques-Bonet
Tomas Marques-Bonet Pompeu Fabra University

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