Mim Bower

Publications

Bower, MA, MG Campana, M Whitten, CJ Edwards, H Jones, E Barrett, R Cassidy, RER Nisbet, EW Hill, CJ Howe & M Binns. 2010. The Cosmopolitan maternal heritage of the Thoroughbred racehorse breed shows a significant contribution from British and Irish native mares. Biology Letters.

Campana, MG, CM Whitten, CJ Edwards, F Stock, AM Murphy, MM Binns, GWW Barker & MA Bower. Accepted 2010. Accurate determination of phenotypic information from historic Thoroughbred horses by single base extension. PLoS ONE.

Lister, DL, MA Bower & MK Jones. 2010. Herbarium specimens expand the geographical and temporal range of germplasm data in phylogeographic studies.Taxon 59: 1321-1323.

Li, C, DL Lister, H Li, Y Xu, Y Cui, MA Bower, MK Jones & H Zhou. 2010. Ancient DNA analysis of desiccated wheat grains excavated from a Bronze Age cemetery in Xinjiang. Journal of Archaeological Science. doi:10.1016/j.jas.2010.08.016

Hunt, HV, MC Lawes, MA Bower, JW Haeger & CJ Howe. 2010. A banned variety was the mother of several major wine grapes. Biology Letters 6: 367-369. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2009.0810

Lei, CZ, CM Zhang, S Weining, MG Campana, MA Bower, XM Zhang, L Liu, XY Lan & H Chen. Accepted 2010. Characterisation and genetic diversity of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene in Chinese swamp buffalo. Animal Genetics.

Campana, MG, MA Bower, MJ Bailey, F Stock, TC O'Connell, CJ Edwards, C Checkley-Scott, B Knight, M Spencer & CJ Howe. 2010. A Flock of sheep, goats and cattle: ancient DNA analysis of parchments reveals complexities of historic parchment manufacture. Journal of Archaeological Science 37: 1317–1325.

Bower, MA, MG Campana, C Checkley-Scott, B Knight & CJ Howe. 2010. The potential for extraction and exploitation of DNA from a parchment: a review of the opportunities and hurdles. Journal of the Institute of Conservation 33: 1–11.

Campana, MG, MA Bower, MJ Bailey, TC O'Connell, M Spencer & CJ Howe. 2009. Ion Beam, Genetic and Stable Isotope Analyses of Parchments. Poster presented at the Surrey Ion Beam Centre, Guildford, UK and the Institut Jacques Monot, Paris, France.

Lister, DL, MA Bower, CJ Howe & MK Jones. 2008. Extraction and amplification of nuclear DNA from herbarium specimens of emmer wheat: a method for assessing DNA preservation by maximum amplicon length recovery. Taxon 57: 1-5.

Jones, H, DL Lister, MA Bower, FJ Leigh, LM Smith & MK Jones. 2008. Approaches and constraints of using existing landrace and extant plant material to understand agricultural spread in prehistory. Plant Genetic Resources Characterisation and Utilisation 6: 98-112.

Lister, DL, MG Campana, MA Bower & MK Jones. 2008. Historic DNA - an alternative to ancient DNA? Poster presented at the 9th Internation Conference on Ancient DNA, Pompeii, Italy.

Whitten, CM, MG Campana, MA Bower, AM Murphy, CJ Edwards & M Binns. 2008. SNaPshot™ assay successfully determines SNP for chestnut coat colour in historic Thoroughbred horses. Poster presented at the International Society for Animal Genetics (ISAG) 2008 conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Bower, MA, CJ Edwards, C Evans & CS Downes, in press, Horse husbandry in Iron Age and Romano-British East Anglia: ancient DNA analysis of horses at Langdale Hale, Cambridgeshire. In Evans, C et al. (eds), Prehistoric and Roman Fen-edge Communities at Colne Fen, Earith. The Archaeology of the Lower Ouse Valley, Volume I. Cambridge, McDonald Institute Monograph Series.

Bower, MA & MK Jones. 2007. Ancient DNA and Archaeogenetics. Encyclopaedia of Archaeology. Oxford: Elsevier.

Bower, MA & E Barrett. 2007. Sampling in central and east Asia in search of the genetic signatures of horse domestication: do isolated horse populations retain rare genetic types? NES Journal of Equine Studies 3: 26–30.

Campana, MG, MA Bower, F Stock, C Edwards, D Bradley & RM Thomas. 2007. Medieval cattle breed improvement at Dudley Castle, West Midlands, United Kingdom: a genetic approach. Poster presented at the United Kingdom Archaeological Science 2007 conference, Cambridge, UK and at the Medieval Europe 2007 conference, Paris, France.

McGahern, A, MA Bower, CJ Edwards, PO Brophy, G Sulimova, I Zakharov, M Vizuete-Forster, M Levine, S Li, DE MacHugh & EW Hill. 2006. Evidence for biogeographic patterning of mitochondrial DNA sequences in Eastern horse populations. Animal Genetics 37: 494-7.

McGahern, AM, CJ Edwards, MA Bower, A Heffernan, SD Park, PO Brophy, DG Bradley, DE MacHugh & EW Hill. 2006. Mitochondrial DNA sequence diversity in extant Irish horse populations and in ancient horses. Animal Genetics 37: 498-502.

Bower, MA. 2006. Archaeology, genetics and horse domestication: how ancient is your native pony? The Native Pony December/January 06: 6-8.

Hunt, HV, MA Bower, CJ Howe & MK Jones. 2006. Diversity and domestication in the genus Panicum (Poaceae). Poster presented at ‘Plants, People and Evolution’ symposium, Linnean Society, London.

Bower, MA, M Spencer, S Matsumura, RER Nisbet. & CJ Howe. 2005. How many clones need to be sequenced from a single forensic or ancient DNA sample in order to determine a reliable consensus sequence? Nucleic Acids Research 33: 2549-2556.

Bower, MA. 2003. Green grows the Steppe: how can grassland ecology increase our understanding of human/plant interactions and the origins of agriculture. In Levine, M, et al. (eds), Prehistoric steppe adaptation and the horse. Cambridge, McDonald Institute Monograph Series, pp 29-41.

Bower, MA & DH Leighton. 2002. www.unhenged.org. Archaeological researchers’ website and research community.

Bower, MA. 1998. A critical path to the characterisation of agriculture through the pollen of cereals. PhD thesis, University of Cambridge.

Bower, MA. 1995. Marketing nostalgia: an exploration of heritage management and its relation to human consciousness. In Cooper, MA et al. (eds), Managing Archaeology. London, Routledge, pp. 33-39.

Bower, MA. 1992. Cereal pollen dispersal: a pilot study. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 2: 236-241.

Archaeological Site Reports

Bower, MA. 1999. The environmental remains. In Hall, C (ed.), Terminal Bronze Age and Mediaeval settlement remains at Area A, Baston Quarry No.2, Langtoft, Lincolnshire. Cambridge Archaeology Unit Report: University of Cambridge.

Bower, MA. 1999. The environmental remains. In Regan, R. & C Evans (eds), Excavations at Cone Fen, Earith: sites III & IV. Cambridge Archaeology Unit Report: University of Cambridge.

Bower, MA. 1999. The environmental remains. In Mortimer, R. & L McFadyen (eds), Investigation of the archaeological landscape at Broom, Bedfordshire: phase 4. Cambridge Archaeology Unit Report No. 320: University of Cambridge.