Reference Study Organism Ancient dataset Type of selection focused on Method description Allentoft et al. (2015) Humans 101 low coverage ancient genomes Positive selection Qualitative assessment of selection by tracking allele frequencies of 104 variants putatively under positive selection Alves et al. (2019) Wild European rabbit Genome-wide data from 91 historical samples Positive selection "Test for selection by modelling allele frequency change through time, method by Loog et al (2017) to quantify timing and strength of selection" Bollback et al. (2008) Humans Dataset from Hummel et al. (2005) Positive selection Estimate of 2Nes from allele frequency time series data Buckley et al. (2017) Humans Dataset from Allentoft et al. (2015 Postive selection Test for selection by comparing allele frequencies at different periods using a likelihood model da Fonseca et al. (2015) Maize Exons of 348 genes from 32 ancient samples Positive selection "Tajima's D, PBS of populations at different periods" Faget et al. (2019) Horses "Genome-wide date from 132 samples, 129 genomes with >1x coverage" Positive selection and negative selection "PBS selection scan, allele trajectory reconstruction" Fehren-Schmitz & Georges (2016) Humans Genotypes of 3 SNPs from 109 ancient individuals Positive selection Forward simulations with drift and natural selection Gamba et al. (2014) Humans 13 ancient genomes; coverage ranging from high (22.1x) to low (0.10x) Positive selection Qualitative assessment of selection by tracking allele frequencies of SNP's in 3 genes associated with pigmentation and in lactase persistence allele Gelabert et al. (2017) Humans Genome-wide data from 92 ancient individuals Positive selection Test for selection in 22 markers associated with Malaria resistance using method by Schraiber et al. (2016) Hummel et al. (2005) Humans Genotype of 1 locus from 38 historical and 31 ancient individuals Positive selection Qualitative assessment of selection by tracking allele frequency of CCR5-D32 gene variant Jaenicke-Després et al. (2003) Maize 3 Loci from 11 ancient samples Positive selection Qualitative assessment of selection by tracking allele frequency of 3 variants associated with cob phenotype Librado et al. (2017) Horses 14 ancient genomes; coverage ranging from 1.2x to 10.9x Positive selection "Genome-wide scans of selection using multiple methods; Fst, PBS and LSD between samples from different periods and locations" Lindo et al. (2016) Humans 25 ancient exomes "Balancing, negative and positive selection" PBS selection scan and forward simulations of highest outlier Loog et al. (2017) Domestic chicken Genotype of 2 loci from resp. 30 and 59 ancient samples Positive selection Bayesian statistical framework to quantify timing and strenght of selection for two loci associated with domestication Ludwig et al. (2009) Horses 8 SNPs in 6 loci from 89 ancient samples Positive selection Bollback et al. (2008) method Ludwig et al. (2015) Horses 9 SNPs in 7 loci from 96 ancient samples Positive and negative selection Bayesian computational approach to estimate selection coefficients Malaspinas et al. (2012) Horses Dataset from Ludwig et al. (2009) Positive selection Maximum likelihood method to infer selection coefficient and allele age Mathieson et al. (2015) Humans Genome-wide data from 230 ancient individuals Positive selection "Infer selection signals by testing individual SNPs for outlier allele frequencies, test for selection on complex traits" Mathieson & Mathieson (2018) Humans Genotype of 5 SNPs from 52 Palaeolithic and Mesolithic ancient individuals and genome-wide data of 1078 Holocene ancient individuals Positive selection Mathieson and McVean (2013) method Ollivier et al. (2016) Dogs 1 locus from 13 ancient samples Positive selection Qualitative assessment of selection by tracking changes in copy number Ramos-Madrigal et al. (2016) Maize Whole-genome shotgun data and data from a library enriched for 348 loci of 1 ancient sample Positive selection Qualitiative assessment of timing of selection by inferring domestication status of a set of SNPs Sandoval-Castellanos et al. (2017) Horses Genotypes of 9 loci from 27 ancient samples Positive selection "Infer selection coefficients using S-MCMC and ABC simulations, and path augmentation method" Schraiber et al. (2016) Horses Dataset from Ludwig et al. (2009) Positive selection Bayesian method to infer selection coefficients and allele age from time-series data Schubert et al. (2014) Horses 2 ancient samples; average coverage of 24.3x and 7.4x Positive selection "Genome-wide scans of selection using multiple methods; ? ratio, Watterson estimator and Tajima’s D statistic, Hidden Markov Model, and coalescent genotypes" Steinrücken et al. (2014) Horses Dataset from Ludwig et al. (2009) Balancing selection Maximum likelihood method to infer selection coefficient  Swarts et al. (2017) Maize 15 ancient samples; coverage ranging from 5x to 20x Positive selection "Test for selection by calculating Fst for 10,000 differentiated SNPs" Sverrisdottir et al. 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