Raquel Teixeira
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Raquel Teixeira has a total of 24 co-authors. Here are the top co-authors by number of shared publications:
- Alexandra Petrovna Buzhilova
Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
1 shared publication - Alexandre Gilardet
Centre for Palaeogenetics, Stockholm, Sweden
1 shared publication Bohua Shi
1 shared publication- Haiyan Yue
State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Human Phenome Institute and School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
1 shared publication - He Yu
The State Key Laboratory of Gene Function and Modulation Research, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
1 shared publication - Jiangyue Zhang1 shared publication
Latest Publications
- 10 September 2026
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 393 (6816) , 1122-1127
Paleogenomics and habitat modeling reveal temperate Eurasian origins of woolly rhinoceroses
The woolly rhinoceros was a prominent Ice Age megafaunal species, and there is limited knowledge regarding its origin and responses to past glacial cycles. We sequenced 29 mitochondrial and 14 nuclear genomes from Pleistocene specimens across Eurasia and modeled the species’ habitats over the past 500,000 years. Our results suggest that its maternal genetic diversity mainly evolved in temperate Eurasia around 460 thousand to 420 thousand years ago during a prolonged glacial-interglacial transition. We found that a ~170-thousand-year-old East Asian individual was ancestral to all later populations, indicating East Asia as one possible origin of Late Pleistocene ancestry. We also identified the Altai region as a major climatic refugium. These findings highlight the crucial role of temperate Eurasia in the evolution of woolly rhinoceroses and the diversification of cold-adapted megafauna.
- 10 September 2026
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 393 (6816) , 1122-1127
Paleogenomics and habitat modeling reveal temperate Eurasian origins of woolly rhinoceroses
The woolly rhinoceros was a prominent Ice Age megafaunal species, and there is limited knowledge regarding its origin and responses to past glacial cycles. We sequenced 29 mitochondrial and 14 nuclear genomes from Pleistocene specimens across Eurasia and modeled the species’ habitats over the past 500,000 years. Our results suggest that its maternal genetic diversity mainly evolved in temperate Eurasia around 460 thousand to 420 thousand years ago during a prolonged glacial-interglacial transition. We found that a ~170-thousand-year-old East Asian individual was ancestral to all later populations, indicating East Asia as one possible origin of Late Pleistocene ancestry. We also identified the Altai region as a major climatic refugium. These findings highlight the crucial role of temperate Eurasia in the evolution of woolly rhinoceroses and the diversification of cold-adapted megafauna.