Paleogenomes reveal the evolutionary relationship between modern and cave lions

David W.G. Stanton, Anders Bergström, Peter D. Heintzman, Tom van der Valk, Alberto Carmagnini, Erik Ersmark, Harvinder Pawar, Marcela Sandoval-Velasco, Semyon Androsov, Sergey Fedorov, Martin Kuhlwilm, Doris Nagel, Valeri Plotnikov, Albert Protopopov, Beth Shapiro, Ross Barnett, Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding, Tomas Marques-Bonet, Nobuyuki Yamaguchi, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Anders Götherström, Pontus Skoglund, Laurent Frantz, Love Dalén

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DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2026.05.007
Published: 2026-07
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@article{allodium:10.1016/j.cell.2026.05.007,
  title = {Paleogenomes reveal the evolutionary relationship between modern and cave lions},
  author = {David W.G. Stanton and Anders Bergström and Peter D. Heintzman and Tom van der Valk and Alberto Carmagnini and Erik Ersmark and Harvinder Pawar and Marcela Sandoval-Velasco and Semyon Androsov and Sergey Fedorov and Martin Kuhlwilm and Doris Nagel and Valeri Plotnikov and Albert Protopopov and Beth Shapiro and Ross Barnett and Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding and Tomas Marques-Bonet and Nobuyuki Yamaguchi and M. Thomas P. Gilbert and Anders Götherström and Pontus Skoglund and Laurent Frantz and Love Dalén},
  year = {2026},
  journal = {Cell},
  doi = {10.1016/j.cell.2026.05.007},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2026.05.007}
}

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TY  - JOUR
TI  - Paleogenomes reveal the evolutionary relationship between modern and cave lions
AU  - David W.G. Stanton
AU  - Anders Bergström
AU  - Peter D. Heintzman
AU  - Tom van der Valk
AU  - Alberto Carmagnini
AU  - Erik Ersmark
AU  - Harvinder Pawar
AU  - Marcela Sandoval-Velasco
AU  - Semyon Androsov
AU  - Sergey Fedorov
AU  - Martin Kuhlwilm
AU  - Doris Nagel
AU  - Valeri Plotnikov
AU  - Albert Protopopov
AU  - Beth Shapiro
AU  - Ross Barnett
AU  - Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding
AU  - Tomas Marques-Bonet
AU  - Nobuyuki Yamaguchi
AU  - M. Thomas P. Gilbert
AU  - Anders Götherström
AU  - Pontus Skoglund
AU  - Laurent Frantz
AU  - Love Dalén
PY  - 2026
JO  - Cell
DO  - 10.1016/j.cell.2026.05.007
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Stanton, D. W., Bergström, A., Heintzman, P. D., Valk, T. V. D., Carmagnini, A., Ersmark, E., Pawar, H., Sandoval-Velasco, M., Androsov, S., Fedorov, S., Kuhlwilm, M., Nagel, D., Plotnikov, V., Protopopov, A., Shapiro, B., Barnett, R., Sinding, M. S., Marques-Bonet, T., Yamaguchi, N., Gilbert, M. T. P., Götherström, A., Skoglund, P., Frantz, L., & Dalén, L. (2026). Paleogenomes reveal the evolutionary relationship between modern and cave lions. Cell. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2026.05.007

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