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  1. Lasting Lower Rhine–Meuse forager ancestry shaped Bell Beaker expansion

    Article • Nature, February 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  2. Genetic and historical perspectives on the early medieval inhumations from the Menga dolmen, Antequera (Spain)

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, February 2026, Elsevier

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  3. Genomic evidence supports the “long chronology” for the peopling of Sahul

    Article • Science Advances, November 2025, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  4. West African ancestry in seventh-century England: two individuals from Kent and Dorset

    Article • Antiquity, August 2025, Antiquity Publications

    Erin Sebo, Professor Martin Brian Richards

  5. Ancient genomes reveal cosmopolitan ancestry and maternal kinship patterns at post-Roman Worth Matravers, Dorset

    Article • Antiquity, August 2025, Antiquity Publications

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  6. Medieval genomes from eastern Iberia illuminate the role of Morisco mass deportations in dismantling a long-standing genetic bridge with North Africa

    Article • Genome Biology, April 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  7. Contrasting Patterns of Genetic Diversity in European Mammals in the Context of Glacial Refugia

    Article • Diversity, October 2024, MDPI AG

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  8. The Anglo-Saxon migration and the formation of the early English gene pool

    Article • Nature, September 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Andy M Jones, Professor Martin Brian Richards

  9. Phylogeography of Sub-Saharan Mitochondrial Lineages Outside Africa Highlights the Roles of the Holocene Climate Changes and the Atlantic Slave Trade

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, August 2022, MDPI AG

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  10. Helena’s Many Daughters: More Mitogenome Diversity behind the Most Common West Eurasian mtDNA Control Region Haplotype in an Extended Italian Population Sample

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, June 2022, MDPI AG

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  11. Migration and community in Bronze Age Orkney: innovation and continuity at the Links of Noltland

    Article • Antiquity, March 2022, Antiquity Publications

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  12. The Archaeogenetics of Southeast Asia

    Article • February 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  13. Ancient DNA at the edge of the world: Continental immigration and the persistence of Neolithic male lineages in Bronze Age Orkney

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  14. Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age

    Article • Nature, December 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Andy M Jones, Professor Martin Brian Richards

  15. Biomolecular insights into North African-related ancestry, mobility and diet in eleventh-century Al-Andalus

    Article • Scientific Reports, September 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  16. Ancient mitochondrial DNA connects house mice in the British Isles to trade across Europe over three millennia

    Article • BMC Ecology and Evolution, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  17. Phylogeography of 27,000 SARS-CoV-2 Genomes: Europe as the Major Source of the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Article • Microorganisms, October 2020, MDPI AG

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  18. Association of Leukotriene A4 Hydrolase with Tuberculosis Susceptibility Using Genomic Data in Portugal

    Article • Microorganisms, December 2019, MDPI AG

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  19. Maternal relationships within an Iron Age burial at the High Pasture Cave, Isle of Skye, Scotland

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, October 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  20. On Methodological issues in the Indo-European debate By Michel Danino

    Article • Journal of Biosciences, July 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  21. An Efficient and User-Friendly Implementation of the Founder Analysis Methodology

    Article • June 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  22. A dispersal of Homo sapiens from southern to eastern Africa immediately preceded the out-of-Africa migration

    Article • Scientific Reports, March 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  23. How iberian people have changed in the last 8000 years.

    Article • Science, March 2019, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Agustín Angel Diez Castillo, Professor Martin Brian Richards

  24. Rectifying long-standing misconceptions about the ρ statistic for molecular dating

    Article • PLOS One, February 2019, PLOS

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  25. Untangling Neolithic and Bronze Age mitochondrial lineages in South Asia

    Article • Annals of Human Biology, February 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  26. ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST:

    Article • December 2018, JSTOR

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  27. A genetic chronology for the Indian Subcontinent points to heavily sex-biased dispersals

    Article • BMC Evolutionary Biology, March 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  28. Reconciling evidence from ancient and contemporary genomes: a major source for the European Neolithic within Mediterranean Europe

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, March 2017, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  29. Mitogenome Diversity in Sardinians: A Genetic Window onto an Island's Past

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, February 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  30. Genomic insights into the origin of farming in the ancient Near East

    Article • Nature, July 2016, Nature

    Prof Ron Pinhasi, Professor Martin Brian Richards

  31. Quantifying the legacy of the Chinese Neolithic on the maternal genetic heritage of Taiwan and Island Southeast Asia

    Article • Human Genetics, February 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  32. Resolving the ancestry of Austronesian-speaking populations

    Article • Human Genetics, January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  33. Genetic Stratigraphy of Key Demographic Events in Arabia

    Article • PLOS One, March 2015, PLOS

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  34. The case for the continuing use of the revised Cambridge Reference Sequence (rCRS) and the standardization of notation in human mitochondrial DNA studies

    Article • Journal of Human Genetics, December 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  35. The First Modern Human Dispersals across Africa

    Article • PLOS One, November 2013, PLOS

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  36. A substantial prehistoric European ancestry amongst Ashkenazi maternal lineages

    Article • Nature Communications, October 2013, Nature

    Dr Oxana Yu. Naumova, Professor Martin Brian Richards

  37. Mitogenomes from Two Uncommon Haplogroups Mark Late Glacial/Postglacial Expansions from the Near East and Neolithic Dispersals within Europe

    Article • PLOS One, July 2013, PLOS

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  38. Genetic and archaeological perspectives on the initial modern human colonization of southern Asia

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2013, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  39. Foraging–Farming Transitions in Island Southeast Asia

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, October 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  40. Mitochondrial DNA Signals of Late Glacial Recolonization of Europe from Near Eastern Refugia

    Article • The American Journal of Human Genetics, May 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  41. The Arabian Cradle: Mitochondrial Relicts of the First Steps along the Southern Route out of Africa

    Article • The American Journal of Human Genetics, February 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  42. The Expansion of mtDNA Haplogroup L3 within and out of Africa

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, November 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  43. Ancient Voyaging and Polynesian Origins

    Article • The American Journal of Human Genetics, February 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen J Oppenheimer, Professor Martin Brian Richards

  44. The expansion of the house mouse into north‐western Europe

    Article • Journal of Zoology, November 2010, Wiley

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  45. Population Genetic Structure in Indian Austroasiatic Speakers: The Role of Landscape Barriers and Sex-Specific Admixture

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, October 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  46. A Complete Mitochondrial Genome Sequence from a Mesolithic Wild Aurochs (Bos primigenius)

    Article • PLOS One, February 2010, PLOS

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  47. The Archaeogenetics of Europe

    Article • Current Biology, February 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  48. Population expansion in the North African Late Pleistocene signalled by mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U6

    Article • BMC Evolutionary Biology, January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  49. Mitochondrial Echoes of First Settlement and Genetic Continuity in El Salvador

    Article • PLOS One, September 2009, PLOS

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  50. Correcting for Purifying Selection: An Improved Human Mitochondrial Molecular Clock

    Article • The American Journal of Human Genetics, June 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen J Oppenheimer, Professor Martin Brian Richards

  51. A common MYBPC3 (cardiac myosin binding protein C) variant associated with cardiomyopathies in South Asia

    Article • Nature Genetics, January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  52. Complete Mitochondrial Genome Sequence of the Tyrolean Iceman

    Article • Current Biology, November 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  53. The brave new era of human genetic testing

    Article • BioEssays, November 2008, Wiley

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  54. Evidence for Variable Selective Pressures at a Large Secondary Structure of the Human Mitochondrial DNA Control Region

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, August 2008, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  55. Mitochondrial genomes of extinct aurochs survive in domestic cattle

    Article • Current Biology, February 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  56. Climate Change and Postglacial Human Dispersals in Southeast Asia

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, January 2008, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  57. Phylogeographic investigations: The role of trees in forensic genetics

    Article • Forensic Science International, May 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  58. No Evidence for an mtDNA Role in Sperm Motility: Data from Complete Sequencing of Asthenozoospermic Males

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, January 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  59. A Mitochondrial Stratigraphy for Island Southeast Asia

    Article • The American Journal of Human Genetics, January 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen J Oppenheimer, Professor Martin Brian Richards

  60. Phylogeography and Ethnogenesis of Aboriginal Southeast Asians

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, September 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  61. Harvesting the fruit of the human mtDNA tree

    Article • Trends in Genetics, June 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  62. Evaluating the forensic informativeness of mtDNA haplogroup H sub-typing on a Eurasian scale

    Article • Forensic Science International, May 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  63. Relative Y-STR mutation rates estimated from the variance inside SNP defined lineages

    Article • International Congress Series, April 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  64. Human Mitochondrial DNA and the Evolution of Homo sapiens

    Article • January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  65. The Archaeological and Genetic Foundations of the European Population during the Late Glacial: Implications for ‘Agricultural Thinking’

    Article • Cambridge Archaeological Journal, October 2005, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  66. A practical guide to mitochondrial DNA error prevention in clinical, forensic, and population genetics

    Article • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, September 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  67. Single, Rapid Coastal Settlement of Asia Revealed by Analysis of Complete Mitochondrial Genomes

    Article • Science, May 2005, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  68. High-resolution mtDNA evidence for the late-glacial resettlement of Europe from an Iberian refugium

    Article • Genome Research, January 2005, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  69. Shipwrecks and founder effects: Divergent demographic histories reflected in Caribbean mtDNA

    Article • American Journal of Physical Anthropology, January 2005, Wiley

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  70. The Molecular Dissection of mtDNA Haplogroup H Confirms That the Franco-Cantabrian Glacial Refuge Was a Major Source for the European Gene Pool

    Article • The American Journal of Human Genetics, November 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  71. The Longue Durée of Genetic Ancestry: Multiple Genetic Marker Systems and Celtic Origins on the Atlantic Facade of Europe

    Article • The American Journal of Human Genetics, October 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  72. Phylogeographic Analysis of Haplogroup E3b (E-M215) Y Chromosomes Reveals Multiple Migratory Events Within and Out Of Africa

    Article • The American Journal of Human Genetics, May 2004, Elsevier

    Prof Nejat Akar, Professor Martin Brian Richards

  73. The mitochondrial DNA tree and forensic science

    Article • International Congress Series, April 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  74. The African Diaspora: Mitochondrial DNA and the Atlantic Slave Trade

    Article • The American Journal of Human Genetics, March 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  75. Climate change and evolving human diversity in Europe during the last glacial

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, February 2004, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  76. MtDNA evidence for a genetic bottleneck in the early history of the Ashkenazi Jewish population

    Article • European Journal of Human Genetics, January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  77. Palaeolithic radiocarbon chronology: quantifying our confidence beyond two half-lives

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, December 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  78. Identification of Native American Founder mtDNAs Through the Analysis of Complete mtDNA Sequences: Some Caveats

    Article • Annals of Human Genetics, November 2003, Wiley

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  79. The Neolithic Invasion of Europe

    Article • Annual Review of Anthropology, October 2003, Annual Reviews

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  80. A Y Chromosome Census of the British Isles

    Article • Current Biology, May 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  81. Extensive Female-Mediated Gene Flow from Sub-Saharan Africa into Near Eastern Arab Populations

    Article • The American Journal of Human Genetics, April 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  82. In Search of Geographical Patterns in European Mitochondrial DNA

    Article • The American Journal of Human Genetics, November 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  83. The Making of the African mtDNA Landscape

    Article • The American Journal of Human Genetics, November 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  84. Founding Mothers of Jewish Communities: Geographically Separated Jewish Groups Were Independently Founded by Very Few Female Ancestors

    Article • The American Journal of Human Genetics, June 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  85. Do the Four Clades of the mtDNA Haplogroup L2 Evolve at Different Rates?

    Article • The American Journal of Human Genetics, December 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  86. A Signal, from Human mtDNA, of Postglacial Recolonization in Europe

    Article • The American Journal of Human Genetics, October 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  87. Detecting errors in mtDNA data by phylogenetic analysis

    Article • International Journal of Legal Medicine, October 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  88. The Mitochondrial Gene Tree Comes of Age

    Article • The American Journal of Human Genetics, June 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  89. Genetic evidence for different male and female roles during cultural transitions in the British Isles

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 2001, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  90. A Predominantly Indigenous Paternal Heritage for the Austronesian-Speaking Peoples of Insular Southeast Asia and Oceania

    Article • The American Journal of Human Genetics, February 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen J Oppenheimer, Professor Martin Brian Richards

  91. Tracing European Founder Lineages in the Near Eastern mtDNA Pool

    Article • The American Journal of Human Genetics, November 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  92. Median Networks: Speedy Construction and Greedy Reduction, One Simulation, and Two Case Studies from Human mtDNA

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, July 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  93. Mitochondrial DNA recombination-no need to panic

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, October 1999, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  94. The Emerging Tree of West Eurasian mtDNAs: A Synthesis of Control-Region Sequences and RFLPs

    Article • The American Journal of Human Genetics, January 1999, Elsevier

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  95. mtDNA Suggests Polynesian Origins in Eastern Indonesia

    Article • The American Journal of Human Genetics, October 1998, Elsevier

    Professor Stephen J Oppenheimer, Professor Martin Brian Richards

  96. Mitochondrial portraits of human populations using median networks.

    Article • Genetics, October 1995, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  97. Authenticating DNA Extracted From Ancient Skeletal Remains

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, March 1995, Elsevier

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  98. Molecular Genetic Analyses of the Tyrolean Ice Man

    Article • Science, June 1994, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  99. Archaeology and genetics: Analysing DNA from skeletal remains

    Article • World Archaeology, June 1993, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Martin Brian Richards

  100. The World mtDNA Phylogeny

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Martin Brian Richards