December, 2011

Science & Vie magazine n°1131
December 1st, 2011magazine, Media, pressRégis 0 Comments

I was interviewed by Emilie Rauscher who wrote this well-documented article about the potential roads to resurrecting extinct life forms (and whether we should do it or not) for the french monthly scientific magazine: Science & Vie (N°1131) of December 2011.  

Complete Columbian mammoth mitogenome suggests interbreeding with woolly mammoths

Citation Complete Columbian mammoth mitogenome suggests interbreeding with woolly mammoths. Enk Jacob, Alison Devault, Régis Debruyne, Christine E King, Todd Treangen, Dennis O’Rourke, Steven L Salzberg, Daniel Fisher, Ross MacPhee and Hendrik Poinar. Genome Biology 2011, 12(5):R51. DOI:10.1186/gb-2011-12-5-r51

Anatomy and phylogenetic value of the mandibular and coronoid canals and their associated foramina in proboscideans (Mammalia)

Citation Anatomy and phylogenetic value of the mandibular and coronoid canals and their associated foramina in proboscideans (Mammalia). Ferretti, Marco & Régis Debruyne. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 2011, 161(2):391-413. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00637.x

Dissecting a mammoth
August 30th, 2010Media, News, webRégis 0 Comments

Life is cool. Sometimes. When so, things can happen like you burn out your brakes in the middle of nowhere’s night, or you get to dissect a frozen mammoth. That happened. It feels like a dream to remember, a nightlong journey within the withins of a baby mammoth from Siberia. Humans called him Khroma. Like [...]

January 21st, 2010NewsRégis 0 Comments

Il n’y a pas que l’ADN dans la vie, même dans la vie du paléomoléculariste. Aussi je vous recommande la lecture de cet article de mon collègue Paul Szpak auquel j’ai participé: Regional differences in bone collagen δ13C and δ15N of Pleistocene mammoths: Implications for paleoecology of the mammoth steppe. Un article où l’on apprend [...]

Regional Differences in Bone Collagen d13C and d15N of Pleistocene Mammoths: Implications for Palaeoecology of the Mammoth Steppe

Citation Regional differences in bone collagen δ13C and δ15N of Pleistocene mammoths: Implications for paleoecology of the mammoth steppe. Szpak Paul, Darren R. Gröcke, Régis Debruyne, Ross D.E. MacPhee, R.D. Guthrie, Grant D. Zazula, W.P. Patterson, & Hendrik N. Poinar. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 2010, 286(1-2):88-96. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.12.009

October 14th, 2009NewsRégis 0 Comments

Voilà une question qui nous tenait à coeur à mon collègue italien Marco Ferretti et moi-même: la valeur phylogénétique de caractères mandibulaires souvent délaissés chez les proboscidiens: les canaux mandibulaire et coronoïde et leurs foramens associés. Depuis 2003, nous avons accumulé des centaines (que dis-je: des milliers) d’observations sur des mandibules de proboscidiens fossiles et [...]

Time-Dependency of Molecular Rates in Ancient DNA Datasets, a Sampling Artifact?

Citation Time-Dependency of Molecular Rates in Ancient DNA Datasets, a Sampling Artifact? Debruyne Régis & Hendrik N. Poinar. Syst Biol 2009, 58(3):348-359. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syp028

April 3rd, 2009Media, NewsRégis 0 Comments

Le numéro d’avril 2009 du Monde2 vient de paraître avec, en couverture un mammouth dont le clonage apparaît désormais “comme envisageable”. Je répondais dans ce numéro aux questions de Laurent Carpentier, et vous pouvez trouver son article sur le site web du journal>.

Citation New insights from old bones: DNA preservation and degradation in permafrost preserved mammoth remains. Schwarz Carsten, Régis Debruyne, Melanie Kuch, Elizabth McNally, Henry Schwarcz, Andrew Aubrey, Jeffrey Bada, Hendrik N. Poinar. Nucleic Acids Research 2009, 37(10): 3215–3229. DOI:10.1093/nar/gkp159 Abstract Despite being plagued by heavily degraded DNA in palaeontological remains, most studies addressing the state [...]

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