Past subarctic marine food web shifts recovered by sedaDNA and network analysis - Scientific Reports

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De novo assembly and authentication of ancient DNA metagenomes with nf-core/mag

Author summary Advancements in genomic sequencing analyses are increasingly allowing researchers to reconstruct the genomes of microbial ‘dark matter’—those microbial species that are difficult to…

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Multidisciplinary Exploration of Computed‐Tomographic and Ancient‐<fc>DNA</fc> Data of an Iron Age Skull From Latvia With Multiple Lytic Bone Lesions: Differential Diagnosis Between Metastatic Carcinoma, Multiple Myeloma and Skeletal Tuberculosis

In this study we used a combined computed tomographic and archaeogenetic approach to analyse a skull and vertebra with lytic lesions from a disturbed grave in the Čunkāni-Dreņģeri cemetery in…

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Ancestry, admixture, and pathogens in contemporaneous Neolithic farmers and foragers on the Island of Gotland - Communications Biology

Neolithic farmers and foragers in Gotland coexisted for 500 years, ancient DNA suggests limited intermixing, shared ancestry with mainland groups, isolation, and evidence of distinct Yersinia pestis…

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Warm current intensification altered phytoplankton communities in the Yellow Sea: insights from sedimentary ancient DNA metabarcoding

Abstract. Long-term changes in phytoplankton communities are key to understanding and predicting ecosystem responses to climate-driven circulation change.

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Investigating ancient human DNA preservation on cave walls and in rock art - Nature Communications

Ancient DNA can be preserved on materials from archaeological floor deposits such as bones, sediments and artifacts. Here, the authors investigate whether Palaeolithic wall art can preserve human DNA…

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The genomic identity of early smallpox in South America

Smallpox was a major driver of population collapse in the Americas after European contact, yet the genetic identity of the causal strains remains unknown. Here, we report the first ancient smallpox…

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Ground squirrel coprolites preserve complex archives of ancient environmental DNA over 700,000 years - Nature Communications

Ancient faeces are powerful archives of ancient environmental DNA with the potential to illuminate both ecosystem history and evolution. This study shows that arctic ground squirrel droppings from…

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Genomic evidence for limited entomophagy in ancient Europeans

Ancient DNA traces in teeth and genes reveal that insects played a minor role in prehistoric European diets.

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Ancient Species Diversity and Niche Adaptation in Tannerella and Porphyromonas Revealed Through Pangenomics

Abstract. De novo assembly of ancient and modern bacterial metagenomes can shed light on evolution and ecology of bacterial species that are challenging to

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Lethal plague outbreaks in Lake Baikal hunter-gatherers 5,500 years ago

Analyses of ancient DNA from hunter-gatherers near Lake Baikal in southeast Siberia around 5,500 years ago indicate that highly virulent Yersinia pestis emerged earlier than previously estimated, far from...

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Ancient DNA from shells reveals delayed genomic erosion and rapid immune adaptation in the critically endangered black abalone | PNAS

Predicting the genetic consequences of population decline is a major problem in conservation genomics. Time lags following demographic bottlenecks ...

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Ancient DNA from the Upper Paleolithic mammoth ivory of Hohle Fels, Germany - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Ancient DNA from the Upper Paleolithic mammoth ivory of Hohle Fels, Germany

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Probing the zooarchaeological record across time and space for ancient pathogen DNA - Nature Communications

Authors investigate ancient DNA from animal remains and identify multiple signatures of ancient zoonotic pathogens. They find ancient pathogen genomics from archaeological animal remains may inform…

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Pangolin museum genomics reveal the dynamic genetic consequences and extinction risk of the critically endangered Chinese pangolin

Abstract. Human-driven biodiversity loss, intensified by illegal hunting and trafficking, has caused severe wildlife population declines and extinctions, n

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Ancient environmental genome reveals a migratory brown bear individual in Early Holocene Scandinavia | PNAS

After the last ice age, species migrated into a newly deglaciated Scandinavia. Brown bear recolonization is thought to have occurred from two direc...

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Genomic history of early dogs in Europe - Nature

Genome-wide analysis shows European dogs existed by 14,200 years ago, were already genetically distinct, received less Neolithic Southwest Asian admixture than humans did and contributed…

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