Preprints
Katherine Brunson*, Kelsey E Witt*, Susan Monge, Sloan Williams, David Peede, et al. Ancient Mongolian aurochs genomes reveal sustained introgression and management in East Asia. bioRxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.10.552443v1
Tadeusz H. Wroblewski*, Kelsey E. Witt*, Seung-been Lee, Ripan S. Malhi, Emilia Huerta-Sanchez, Fernando Villanea, and Katrina G. Claw. Archaic introgression and variation in pharmacogenes and implications for local adaptation. bioRxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.11.27.470071v2
Publications
Kelsey E Witt, Alyssa Funk, Valeria Añorve-Garibay, Lesly Lopez Fang, Emilia Huerta Sánchez. The impact of modern admixture on archaic human ancestry in human populations. Genome Biology and Evolution 15(5): evad066. 2023.
Kelsey E. Witt, Fernando Villanea, Elle Loughran, Xinjun Zhang, and Emilia Huerta-Sanchez. Apportioning archaic variants among modern populations. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 377(1852): 20200411. 2022
Fernando A. Villanea and Kelsey E. Witt. Underrepresented Populations at the Archaic Introgression Frontier. Frontiers in Genetics 13: 821170-821170. 2022
Kelsey E. Witt, Karthik Yarlagadda, Julie M. Allen, Alyssa C. Bader, Mary L. Simon, Steven R. Kuehn, Kelly S. Swanson, Tzu-Wen L. Cross, Kristin M. Hedman, Stanley H. Ambrose, and Ripan S. Malhi. Integrative analysis of DNA, macroscopic remains and stable isotopes of dog coprolites to reconstruct community diet. Scientific Reports 11: 3113. 2021
Angela R. Perri, Tatiana R. Feuerborn, Laurent A. F. Frantz, Greger Larson, Ripan S. Malhi, David J. Meltzer, and Kelsey E. Witt. Dog domestication and the dual dispersal of people and dogs into the Americas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 118(6): e2010083118. 2021
Xinjun Zhang, Kelsey E. Witt, Mayra M. Banuelos, Amy Ko, Kai Yuan, Shuhua Xu, Rasmus Nielsen, and Emilia Huerta-Sanchez. The history and evolution of the Denisovan-EPAS1 haplotype in Tibetans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(22): e2020803118. 2021
Kaileigh Ahlquist, Mayra Banuelos, Alyssa Funk, Jiaying Lai, Stephen Rong, Fernando Villanea*, and Kelsey Witt*. Our tangled family tree: new genomic methods offer insight into the legacy of archaic admixture. Genome Biology and Evolution 13 (7): evab115. 2021
Lu Yao*, Kelsey Witt*, Hongjie Li, Jonathan Rice, Nelson R. Salinas, Robert D. Martin, Emilia Huerta-Sanchez, and Ripan S. Malhi. Population genetics of wild Macaca fascicularis with low-coverage shotgun sequencing of museum specimens. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 173(1): 21-33. 2020
Thomas E. Emerson, Kristin M. Hedman, Mary L. Simon, Mathew A. Fort, and Kelsey E. Witt. Isotopic Confirmation of the Timing and Intensity of Maize Consumption in Greater Cahokia. American Antiquity 85(2): 241-262. 2020
Liisa Loog, Olaf Thalman, Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding, Verena J. Schuenemann, Angela Perri, et al. Ancient DNA suggests modern wolves trace their origin to a Late Pleistocene expansion from Beringia. Molecular Ecology 29(9): 1596-1610. 2019
Jessica A. Oswald, Julia M. Allen, Kelsey E. Witt, Ryan Folk, Nancy A. Albury, David W. Steadman, and Robert T. Guralnick. Ancient DNA from a 2,500-year-old Caribbean fossil places an extinct bird (Caracara creightoni) in a phylogenetic context. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 140: 106576. 2019
Julie M. Schablitsky, Kelsey E. Witt, Jazmin Ramos Madrigal, Martin R. Ellegaard, Ripan S. Malhi, and Hannes Schroeder. Ancient DNA Analysis of Nineteenth Century Tobacco Pipe from a Maryland Slave Quarter. Journal of Archaeological Science 105: 11-18. 2019
Kelsey E. Witt, and Emilia Huerta-Sánchez. Convergent evolution in human and domesticate adaptation to high-altitude environments. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 374: 20180235. 2019
Maire Ni Leathlobhair*, Angela R. Perri*, Evan K. Irving-Pease*, Kelsey E. Witt*, Anna Linderholm*, et al. The Evolutionary History of Dogs in the Americas. Science 361 (6397): 81-85. 2018
Jessica R. Brandt, Peter J. Van Coeverden de Groot, Kelsey E. Witt, Ripan S. Malhi, Paige K. Engelbrektsson, Kristopher M. Helgen, Oliver A. Ryder and Alfred L. Roca. Genetic structure and diversity among historic and modern populations of the Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis). Heredity 109 (5): 553-565. 2018
Kelsey E. Witt. Ancient DNA Sequencing of Dogs from the American Bottom. Illinois Antiquity 50 (3): 14-15. 2015
Kelsey E. Witt, Kathleen Judd, Colin Grier, Timothy A. Kohler, Scott G. Ortman, Andrew Kitchen, Brian M. Kemp, and Ripan S. Malhi. DNA Analysis of ancient dogs in the Americas: Determining possible founding haplotypes and reconstructing population histories. Journal of Human Evolution 79:105-118. 2015
* = Co-first author
Katherine Brunson*, Kelsey E Witt*, Susan Monge, Sloan Williams, David Peede, et al. Ancient Mongolian aurochs genomes reveal sustained introgression and management in East Asia. bioRxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.10.552443v1
Tadeusz H. Wroblewski*, Kelsey E. Witt*, Seung-been Lee, Ripan S. Malhi, Emilia Huerta-Sanchez, Fernando Villanea, and Katrina G. Claw. Archaic introgression and variation in pharmacogenes and implications for local adaptation. bioRxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.11.27.470071v2
Publications
Kelsey E Witt, Alyssa Funk, Valeria Añorve-Garibay, Lesly Lopez Fang, Emilia Huerta Sánchez. The impact of modern admixture on archaic human ancestry in human populations. Genome Biology and Evolution 15(5): evad066. 2023.
Kelsey E. Witt, Fernando Villanea, Elle Loughran, Xinjun Zhang, and Emilia Huerta-Sanchez. Apportioning archaic variants among modern populations. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 377(1852): 20200411. 2022
Fernando A. Villanea and Kelsey E. Witt. Underrepresented Populations at the Archaic Introgression Frontier. Frontiers in Genetics 13: 821170-821170. 2022
Kelsey E. Witt, Karthik Yarlagadda, Julie M. Allen, Alyssa C. Bader, Mary L. Simon, Steven R. Kuehn, Kelly S. Swanson, Tzu-Wen L. Cross, Kristin M. Hedman, Stanley H. Ambrose, and Ripan S. Malhi. Integrative analysis of DNA, macroscopic remains and stable isotopes of dog coprolites to reconstruct community diet. Scientific Reports 11: 3113. 2021
Angela R. Perri, Tatiana R. Feuerborn, Laurent A. F. Frantz, Greger Larson, Ripan S. Malhi, David J. Meltzer, and Kelsey E. Witt. Dog domestication and the dual dispersal of people and dogs into the Americas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 118(6): e2010083118. 2021
Xinjun Zhang, Kelsey E. Witt, Mayra M. Banuelos, Amy Ko, Kai Yuan, Shuhua Xu, Rasmus Nielsen, and Emilia Huerta-Sanchez. The history and evolution of the Denisovan-EPAS1 haplotype in Tibetans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(22): e2020803118. 2021
Kaileigh Ahlquist, Mayra Banuelos, Alyssa Funk, Jiaying Lai, Stephen Rong, Fernando Villanea*, and Kelsey Witt*. Our tangled family tree: new genomic methods offer insight into the legacy of archaic admixture. Genome Biology and Evolution 13 (7): evab115. 2021
Lu Yao*, Kelsey Witt*, Hongjie Li, Jonathan Rice, Nelson R. Salinas, Robert D. Martin, Emilia Huerta-Sanchez, and Ripan S. Malhi. Population genetics of wild Macaca fascicularis with low-coverage shotgun sequencing of museum specimens. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 173(1): 21-33. 2020
Thomas E. Emerson, Kristin M. Hedman, Mary L. Simon, Mathew A. Fort, and Kelsey E. Witt. Isotopic Confirmation of the Timing and Intensity of Maize Consumption in Greater Cahokia. American Antiquity 85(2): 241-262. 2020
Liisa Loog, Olaf Thalman, Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding, Verena J. Schuenemann, Angela Perri, et al. Ancient DNA suggests modern wolves trace their origin to a Late Pleistocene expansion from Beringia. Molecular Ecology 29(9): 1596-1610. 2019
Jessica A. Oswald, Julia M. Allen, Kelsey E. Witt, Ryan Folk, Nancy A. Albury, David W. Steadman, and Robert T. Guralnick. Ancient DNA from a 2,500-year-old Caribbean fossil places an extinct bird (Caracara creightoni) in a phylogenetic context. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 140: 106576. 2019
Julie M. Schablitsky, Kelsey E. Witt, Jazmin Ramos Madrigal, Martin R. Ellegaard, Ripan S. Malhi, and Hannes Schroeder. Ancient DNA Analysis of Nineteenth Century Tobacco Pipe from a Maryland Slave Quarter. Journal of Archaeological Science 105: 11-18. 2019
Kelsey E. Witt, and Emilia Huerta-Sánchez. Convergent evolution in human and domesticate adaptation to high-altitude environments. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 374: 20180235. 2019
Maire Ni Leathlobhair*, Angela R. Perri*, Evan K. Irving-Pease*, Kelsey E. Witt*, Anna Linderholm*, et al. The Evolutionary History of Dogs in the Americas. Science 361 (6397): 81-85. 2018
Jessica R. Brandt, Peter J. Van Coeverden de Groot, Kelsey E. Witt, Ripan S. Malhi, Paige K. Engelbrektsson, Kristopher M. Helgen, Oliver A. Ryder and Alfred L. Roca. Genetic structure and diversity among historic and modern populations of the Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis). Heredity 109 (5): 553-565. 2018
Kelsey E. Witt. Ancient DNA Sequencing of Dogs from the American Bottom. Illinois Antiquity 50 (3): 14-15. 2015
Kelsey E. Witt, Kathleen Judd, Colin Grier, Timothy A. Kohler, Scott G. Ortman, Andrew Kitchen, Brian M. Kemp, and Ripan S. Malhi. DNA Analysis of ancient dogs in the Americas: Determining possible founding haplotypes and reconstructing population histories. Journal of Human Evolution 79:105-118. 2015
* = Co-first author