Anna Brüniche-Olsen@AnnaBruniche

Conservation genomics, evolution and popgen @uni_copenhagen

 Copenhagen, Denmark
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Joined November 2014
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🎉🎉 New publication out! 🎉🎉 🧵1/6 🦒 Marius made global headlines when he was euthanized by Copenhagen Zoo in 2014 after being deemed surplus. His story highlights how challenging it is to manage zoo populations for conservation with limited resources doi.org/10.1007/s10592-025-0…

Unfolding admixed ancestry and genomic diversity in zoo giraffes

Conservation Genetics - A giraffe nicknamed Marius attracted international media attention and world-wide notoriety when euthanized by Copenhagen Zoo in 2014, deemed surplus to the European...

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🧵5/6 🦒 Take-home: Zoo giraffes often have mixed ancestry and uneven genetic diversity, meaning studbooks alone can miss key information. Integrating genomic data with pedigree records is essential to manage inbreeding, maintain diversity, and maximize the conservation value.
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🧵6/6 A big thanks to all co-authors @MischaFrancesca , @HellerRasmus , @LauraDBertola, Christina Hvilsom, @renzobalb and Xiaodong Liu. The paper is out now in Conservation Genetics.
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📢 6 new positions open for application within the fields of #macroecology, #ornithology, & #genomics at Villum Center for Global Mountain Biodiversity, UCPH. Application DEADLINE 31 July 2025. Read more about the positions application process: macroecology.ku.dk/news/2025…
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CMEC@Macroecology
27 Jun 2025
📢 6 new positions open for application within the fields of #macroecology, #ornithology, & #genomics at Villum Center for Global Mountain Biodiversity, UCPH. Application DEADLINE 31 July 2025. Read more about the positions application process: macroecology.ku.dk/news/2025…
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Mammals on the Margins: Identifying the Drivers and Limitations of Range Expansion 🔗 buff.ly/Dhmwwng @RolandKays
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Can genomic analysis actually estimate past population size? cell.com/trends/genetics/ful…

Can genomic analysis actually estimate past population size?

Genomic data can be used to reconstruct population size over thousands of generations, using a new class of algorithms [sequentially Markovian coalescent (SMC) methods]. These analyses often show a...

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Phylogeography of introgression: Spatial and temporal analyses identify two introgression events between brown and American black bears 🐻🧬 nature.com/articles/s41437-0…

Phylogeography of introgression: Spatial and temporal analyses identify two introgression events...

Heredity - Phylogeography of introgression: Spatial and temporal analyses identify two introgression events between brown and American black bears

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Evolutionarily distinct lineages of a migratory bird of prey show divergent responses to climate change doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-5…

Evolutionarily distinct lineages of a migratory bird of prey show divergent responses to climate...

Nature Communications - Understanding species’ spatiotemporal dynamics is key to predicting their responses to climate change. Here, the authors combine landscape genomics, demographic...

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Our population genetics PhD summer course 2025 @PopGenDK @Globe_UCPH is now open for registration! Featuring lectures & talks by Martin Sikora, @ShyamGlobe, @KBougiouri , Fernando Racimo, @idamoltke , @A_Albrechtsen. For more info: website.popgen.dk/summer/
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🦒🧬 New preprint🦒🧬 We investigated the degree of admixture, genetic diversity and inbreeding in ex situ giraffes using WGS data from the famous Marius, 12 zoo giraffes, and a data set from 71 wild giraffes. #ConsGen #PopGen #Genomics #Giraffes #Marius biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Our findings highlight the dual challenges of admixture and inbreeding in ex situ populations, emphasizing the need for balanced genetic management to mitigate inbreeding and outbreeding depression while preserving diversity reflective of wild populations.
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@MischaFrancesca @HellerRasmus @LauraDBertola CHvilsom @renzobalb XLiu
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Population Genetics Meets Ecology: A Guide to Individual-Based Simulations in Continuous Landscapes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Population Genetics Meets Ecology: A Guide to Individual‐Based Simulations in Continuous Landscapes

This paper aims to be a practical guide to spatial simulation, helping researchers to implement realistic and efficient spatial, individual-based simulations and avoid common pitfalls. We explore...

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Hiding in plain sight: the Y chromosome and its reinvigorated role in evolutionary processes doi.org/10.1093/evlett/qrae0…

Hiding in plain sight: the Y chromosome and its reinvigorated role in evolutionary processes

Abstract. Recent methodological approaches have expanded our understanding of Y chromosome sequence, revealed unexpected Y diversity, and sparked a growing

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Past conservation efforts reveal which actions lead to positive outcomes for species journals.plos.org/plosbiolog…

Past conservation efforts reveal which actions lead to positive outcomes for species

Understanding the consequences of past conservation efforts is essential to inform the means of maintaining and restoring species. This analysis of IUCN Red List data on 67,217 animal species reveals...

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A structured coalescent model reveals deep ancestral structure shared by all modern humans nature.com/articles/s41588-0…

A structured coalescent model reveals deep ancestral structure shared by all modern humans

Nature Genetics - The cobraa model extends the pairwise sequentially Markovian coalescent to identify structured population history by examination of the model transition matrix. Applied to human...

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