Kistler, Logan
Curator of Archaeobotany and Archaeogenomics
I use archaeology, ancient DNA, and genomics to study the domestication of plants and humans' relationships with the environment.
You can reach me at Kistler L at SI dot edu.
Have a look at our new paper on maize and check back soon!
You can reach me at Kistler L at SI dot edu.
Have a look at our new paper on maize and check back soon!
Background And Education
Publications
selected publications
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- Allaby, Robin G., Stevens, Chris J., Kistler, Logan, and Fuller, Dorian Q. 2022. "Emerging evidence of plant domestication as a landscape-level process." Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 268–279. 37, (3), London, England: Elsevier Science London. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2021.11.002. 2022
- Marciniak, Stephanie, Mughal, Mehreen R., Godfrey, Laurie R., Bankoff, Richard J., Randrianatoandro, Heritiana, Crowley, Brooke E., Bergey, Christina M., Muldoon, Kathleen M., Randrianasy, Jeannot, Raharivololona, Brigitte M., Schuster, Stephan C., Malhi, Ripan S., Yoder, Anne D., Louis, Edward E., Jr., Kistler, Logan, and Perry, George H. 2021. "Evolutionary and phylogenetic insights from a nuclear genome sequence of the extinct, giant, "subfossil" koala lemur Megaladapis edwardsi." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118 (26):https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2022117118 2021
- Spengler, Robert N., Petraglia, Michael, Roberts, Patrick, Ashastina, Kseniia, Kistler, Logan, Mueller, Natalie G., and Boivin, Nicole. 2021. "Exaptation Traits for Megafaunal Mutualisms as a Factor in Plant Domestication." Frontiers in Plant Science 12:https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.649394 2021
- Simon, Marcelo F., Mendoza Flores, J. Moises, Liu, Hsiao-Lei, Lopes Martins, Marcio Lacerda, Drovetski, Sergei, V., Przelomska, Natalia A. S., Loiselle, Hope, Cavalcanti, Taciana B., Inglis, Peter W., Mueller, Natalie G., Allaby, Robin G., Freitas, Fabio de Oliveira, and Kistler, Logan. 2021. "Phylogenomic analysis points to a South American origin of Manihot and illuminates the primary gene pool of cassava." New Phytologist https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17743 2021
- Sacks, Benjamin N., Mitchell, Kieren J., Quinn, Cate B., Hennelly, Lauren M., Sinding, Mikkel-Holger S., Statham, Mark J., Preckler-Quisquater, Sophie, Fain, Steven R., Kistler, Logan, Vanderzwan, Stevi L., Meachen, Julie A., Ostrander, Elaine A., and Frantz, Laurent A. F. 2021. "Pleistocene origins, western ghost lineages, and the emerging phylogeographic history of the red wolf and coyote." Molecular ecology https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16048 2021
- Capriles, Jose M., Santoro, Calogero M., George, Richard J., Bedregal, Eliana Flores, Kennett, Douglas J., Kistler, Logan, and Rothhammer, Francisco. 2021. "Pre-Columbian transregional captive rearing of Amazonian parrots in the Atacama Desert." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118 (15):https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2020020118 2021
- Andermann, Tobias, Torres Jiménez, Maria Fernanda, Matos-Maraví, Pável, Batista, Romina, Blanco-Pastor, Jos, Gustafsson, A. L., Kistler, Logan, Liberal, Isabel M., Oxelman, Bengt, Bacon, Christine D., and Antonelli, Alexandre. 2020. "A Guide to Carrying Out a Phylogenomic Target Sequence Capture Project." Frontiers in Genetics 10:Article 1407. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2019.01407 2020
- Przelomska, Natalia A. S., Armstrong, Chelsey G., and Kistler, Logan J. 2020. "Ancient Plant DNA as a Window Into the Cultural Heritage and Biodiversity of Our Food System." Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8:74. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2020.00074 2020
- Kistler, Logan, Bieker, Vanessa C., Martin, Michael D., Pedersen, Mikkel Winther, Madrigal, Jazmín Ramos, and Wales, Nathan. 2020. "Ancient Plant Genomics in Archaeology, Herbaria, and the Environment." Annual Review of Plant Biology 71:605-629. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-arplant-081519-035837 2020
- Kistler, Logan, Thakar, Heather B., VanDerwarker, Amber M., Domic, Alejandra, Bergström, Anders, George, Richard J., Harper, Thomas K., Allaby, Robin G., Hirth, Kenneth, and Kennett, Douglas J. 2020. "Archaeological Central American maize genomes suggest ancient gene flow from South America." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117 (52):33124-33129. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2015560117 2020
- Gaffney, Vincent, Fitch, Simon, Bates, Martin, Ware, Roselyn L., Kinnaird, Tim, Gearey, Benjamin, Hill, Tom, Telford, Richard, Batt, Cathy, Stern, Ben, Whittaker, John, Davies, Sarah, Sharada, Mohammed Ben, Everett, Rosie, Cribdon, Rebecca, Kistler, Logan, Harris, Sam, Kearney, Kevin, Walker, James, Muru, Merle, Hamilton, Derek, Law, Matthew, Finlay, Alex, Bates, Richard, and Allaby, Robin G. 2020. "Multi-proxy evidence for the impact of the Storegga Slide Tsunami on the early Holocene landscapes of the southern North Sea." Geosciences 10 (7):Article 270. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences10070270 2020
- Smith, Oliver, Nicholson, William V., Kistler, Logan, Mace, Emma, Clapham, Alan, Rose, Pamela, Stevens, Chris, Ware, Roselyn, Samavedam, Siva, Barker, Guy, Jordan, David, Fuller, Dorian Q., and Allaby, Robin G. 2019. "A domestication history of dynamic adaptation and genomic deterioration in Sorghum." Nature Plants 5 (4):369-379. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-019-0397-9 2019
- Allaby, Robin G., Ware, Roselyn L., and Kistler, Logan J. 2019. "A re-evaluation of the domestication bottleneck from archaeogenomic evidence." Evolutionary Applications 12 (1):29-37. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.12680 2019
- Calo, Cristina Marilin, Rizzutto, Marcia A., Watling, Jennifer, Furquim, Laura, Shock, Myrtle P., Andrello, Avacir C., Appoloni, Carlos R., Freitas, Fabio O., Kistler, Logan, Zimpel, Carlos A., Hermenegildo, Tiago, Neves, Eduardo G., and Pugliese, Francisco A. 2019. "Study of plant remains from a fluvial shellmound (Monte Castelo, RO, Brazil) using the X-ray MicroCT imaging technique." Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 26:Article-number 101902. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101902 2019
- Austin, Rita M., Sholts, Sabrina B., Williams, LaShanda, Kistler, Logan, and Hofman, Courtney A. 2019. "To curate the molecular past, museums need a carefully considered set of best practices." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 116 (5):1471-1474. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1822038116 2019
- George, Richard J., Plog, Stephen, Watson, Adam S., Schmidt, Kari L., Culleton, Brendan J., Harper, Thomas K., Gilman, Patricia A., LeBlanc, Steven A., Amato, George, Whiteley, Peter, Kistler, Logan, and Kennett, Douglas J. 2018. "Archaeogenomic evidence from the southwestern US points to a pre-Hispanic scarlet macaw breeding colony." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115 (35):8740-8745. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1805856115 2018
- Kistler, Logan, Maezumi, S. Yodhi, Gregorio de Souza. Jonas, Przelomska, Natalia A. S., Malaquias Costa, Flaviane, Smith, Oliver, Loiselle, Hope, Ramos-Madrigal, Jazm, Wales, Nathan, Ribeiro, Eduardo Rivail, Morrison, Ryan R., Grimaldo, Claudia, Prous, Andre P., Arriaza, Bernardo, Gilbert, M. Thomas P., de Oliveira Freitas, Fabio, and Allaby, Robin G. 2018. "Multiproxy evidence highlights a complex evolutionary legacy of maize in South America." Science 362 (6420):1309-1313. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aav0207 2018
- Kedzierska, Katarzyna Z., Gerber, Livia, Cagnazzi, Daniele, Krützen, Michael, Ratan, Aakrosh, Kistler, Logan, and Berger, Bonnie. 2018. "SONiCS: PCR stutter noise correction in genome-scale microsatellites." Bioinformatics 34 (23):4115-4117. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bty485 2018
- Kistler, Logan J., Johnson, Stephen M., Irwin, Mitchell T., Louis, Edward E., Ratan, Aakrosh, and Perry, George H. 2017. "A massively parallel strategy for STR marker development, capture, and genotyping." Nucleic acids research 45 (15):https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkx574 2017
- Kistler, Logan J., Ware, Roselyn, Smith, Oliver, Collins, Matthew, and Allaby, Robin G. 2017. "A new model for ancient DNA decay based on paleogenomic meta-analysis." Nucleic acids research 45 (11):6310-6320. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkx361 2017
- Kennett, Douglas J., Plog, Stephen, George, Richard J., Culleton, Brendan J., Watson, Adam S., Skoglund, Pontus, Rohland, Nadin, Mallick, Swapan, Stewardson, Kristin, Kistler, Logan J., LeBlanc, Steven A., Whiteley, Peter M., Reich, David, and Perry, George H. 2017. "Archaeogenomic evidence reveals prehistoric matrilineal dynasty." Nature Communications 8:14115. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14115 2017
- Kennett, Douglas J., Thakar, Heather B., VanDerwarker, Amber M., Webster, David L., Culleton, Brendan J., Harper, Thomas K., Kistler, Logan J., Scheffler, Timothy E., and Hirth, Kenneth. 2017. "High-precision chronology for Central American maize diversification from El Gigante rockshelter, Honduras." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 114 (34):9026-9031. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1705052114 2017
- Bankoff, Richard J., Jerjos, Michael, Hohman, Baily, Lauterbur, M. E., Kistler, Logan J., and Perry, George H. 2017. "Testing Convergent Evolution in Auditory Processing Genes between Echolocating Mammals and the Aye-Aye, a Percussive-Foraging Primate." Genome Biology and Evolution 9 (7):1978-1989. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evx140 2017
- Melin, Amanda D., Wells, Konstans, Moritz, Gillian L., Kistler, Logan J., Orkin, Joseph D., Timm, Robert M., Bernard, Henry, Lakim, Maklarin B., Perry, George H., Kawamura, Shoji, and Dominy, Nathaniel J. 2016. "Euarchontan Opsin Variation Brings New Focus to Primate Origins." Molecular biology and evolution 33 (4):1029-1041. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msv346 2016
- Allaby, Robin G., Kistler, Logan J., Gutaker, Rafal M., Ware, Roselyn, Kitchen, James L., Smith, Oliver, and Clarke, Andrew C. 2015. "Archaeogenomic insights into the adaptation of plants to the human environment: pushing plant-hominin co-evolution back to the Pliocene." Journal of human evolution 79:150-157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2014.10.014 2015
- Kistler, Logan J., Ratan, Aakrosh, Godfrey, Laurie R., Crowley, Brooke E., Hughes, Cris E., Lei, Runhua, Cui, Yinqiu, Wood, Mindy L., Muldoon, Kathleen M., Andriamialison, Haingoson, McGraw, John J., Tomsho, Lynn P., Schuster, Stephan C., Miller, Webb, Louis, Edward E., Yoder, Anne D., Malhi, Ripan S., and Perry, George H. 2015. "Comparative and population mitogenomic analyses of Madagascar's extinct, giant 'subfossil' lemurs." Journal of human evolution 79:45-54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2014.06.016 2015
- Cahill, James A., Stirling, Ian, Kistler, Logan J., Salamzade, Rauf, Ersmark, Erik, Fulton, Tara L., Stiller, Mathias, Green, Richard E., and Shapiro, Beth. 2015. "Genomic evidence of geographically widespread effect of gene flow from polar bears into brown bears." Molecular ecology 24 (6):1205-1217. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13038 2015
- Kistler, Logan J., Newsom, Lee A., Ryan, Timothy M., Clarke, Andrew C., Smith, Bruce D., and Perry, George H. 2015. "Gourds and squashes (Cucurbita spp.) adapted to megafaunal extinction and ecological anachronism through domestication." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 201516109. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1516109112 2015
- Perry, George H., Kistler, Logan J., Kelaita, Mary A., and Sams, Aaron J. 2015. "Insights into hominin phenotypic and dietary evolution from ancient DNA sequence data." Journal of human evolution 79:55-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2014.10.018 2015
- Brown, Terence A., Cappellini, Enrico, Kistler, Logan J., Lister, Diane L., Oliveira, Hugo R., Wales, Nathan, and Schlumbaum, Angela. 2015. "Recent advances in ancient DNA research and their implications for archaeobotany." Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 24 (1):207-214. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-014-0489-4 2015
- Kistler, Logan J., Smith, Oliver, Ware, Roselyn, Momber, Garry, Bates, Richard, Garwood, Paul, Fitch, Simon, Pallen, Mark, Gaffney, Vincent, and Allaby, Robin. 2015. "Thermal age, cytosine deamination and the veracity of 8,000 year old wheat DNA from sediments." BioRxiv -. https://doi.org/10.1101/032060 2015
- Kistler, Logan J., Montenegro, Álvaro, Smith, Bruce D., Gifford, John A., Green, Richard E., Newsom, Lee A., and Shapiro, Beth. 2014. "Transoceanic drift and the domestication of African bottle gourds in the Americas." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 111 (8):2937-2941. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1318678111 2014
- Kistler, Logan J., Haney, Jennifer M., and Newsom, Lee A. 2013. "Experimental investigation of pathogenic stress on phytolith formation in Cucurbita pepo var. texana (wild gourd)." Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 22 (3):165-170. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-012-0363-1 2013
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- Wales, Nathan and Kistler, Logan. 2019. "Extraction of Ancient DNA from Plant Remains." in Ancient DNA: Methods and Protocols, edited by Shapiro, Beth, Barlow, Axel, Heintzman, Peter D., Hofreiter, Michael, Pajimans, Johanna L. A., and Soares, Andre E. R., 45-56. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9176-1_6 2019
- Kistler, Logan. 2018. "Paleoethnobotany and Ancient DNA Analysis." in The Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences, 1-5. American Cancer Society. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119188230.saseas0435 2018
- Fritz, G. J., Bruno, M. C., Langlie, B. S., Smith, Bruce D., and Kistler, Logan J. 2017. "Cultigen Chenopods in the Americas: A Hemispherical Perspective." in Social Perspectives from Environmental Archaeology: Food, Place, and People, edited by Sayre, Matthew P. and Bruno, Maria C., 55-75. Springer. 2017
- Kistler, Logan J. 2012. "Ancient DNA Extraction from Plants." in Methods in Molecular Biology: Ancient DNA, edited by Shapiro, B. and Hofreiter, M., 71-79. Humana Press. 2012
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