Kieren J. Mitchell

Ancient DNA reveals elephant birds and kiwi are sister taxa and clarifies ratite bird evolution

Kieren J. Mitchell, Bastien Llamas, Julien Soubrier et al. · Science · 2014 · 289 citations

Animal Taxonomy, Living Fossil, Genetics +16

Genome of the Tasmanian tiger provides insights into the evolution and demography of an extinct marsupial carnivore

Charles Y. Feigin, Axel H. Newton, Liliya Doronina et al. · Nature Ecology & Evolution · 2017 · 125 citations · Full text

Comparative Genomics, Genetics, Genomics +16

Early cave art and ancient DNA record the origin of European bison

Julien Soubrier, Graham Gower, Kefei Chen et al. · Nature Communications · 2016 · 114 citations · Full text

Ancient and modern genomes unravel the evolutionary history of the rhinoceros family

Shanlin Liu, Michael V. Westbury, Nicolás Dussex et al. · Cell · 2021 · 100 citations · Full text

Ancient mitochondrial genome reveals unsuspected taxonomic affinity of the extinct Chatham duck (Pachyanas chathamica) and resolves divergence times for New Zealand and sub-Antarctic brown teals

Kieren J. Mitchell, Jamie R. Wood, R. Paul Scofield et al. · Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · 2013 · 89 citations

Biology, Animal Taxonomy, Phylogenetics +12