Ancient DNA from 16th-century #Medici remains reveals traces of #Plasmodium #falciparum and P. #malariae 🦟🧬, including a previously uncharacterized P. falciparum haplotype.
doi.org/10.1016/j.is...

#MetagenomicsMonday #SPAAM #aDNA #AncientPathogens #AncientParasites #Parasites #Malaria

#sedaDNA reveals major shifts in marine food webs over 124,000 years. 🌊🧬 Robust, bottom-up #glacial #ecosystems dominated by #sea-ice adapted producers gave way to more fragile, consumer-driven food webs during warmer, ice-free periods.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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A #methods paper for #MetagenomicsMonday! 🦠🧬💻

This new primer and #protocol provides practical guidance for assembling and validating #ancient #microbial #genomes. It introduces dedicated #aDNA support in #nf-core/mag.
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

#SPAAM #Metagenomics #Bioinformatics

When #skeletal #lesions tell an ambiguous story, can ancient DNA help? 🦴🧬
This study combines #palaeopathology, #CT imaging and #aDNA to investigate multiple lytic lesions in a 10th-century individual from Latvia.
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
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Ancient #genomes 🧬🦠 reveal possible gene flow between #Funnelbeaker farmers and Pitted Ware foragers, and distinct #Yersinia #pestis strains across cultural groups.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...

#MetagenomicsMonday #SPAAM #aDNA #AncientPathogens #Paleogenomics