Paleoproteomics

C Warinner, K Korzow Richter, MJ Collins - Chemical reviews, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Paleoproteomics, the study of ancient proteins, is a rapidly growing field at the intersection of
molecular biology, paleontology, archaeology, paleoecology, and history. Paleoproteomics …

Yersinia pestis: the natural history of plague

R Barbieri, M Signoli, D Chevé… - Clinical microbiology …, 2020‏ - journals.asm.org
SUMMARY The Gram-negative bacterium Yersinia pestis is responsible for deadly plague, a
zoonotic disease established in stable foci in the Americas, Africa, and Eurasia. Its …

[HTML][HTML] Nutrition and health in human evolution–past to present

KW Alt, A Al-Ahmad, JP Woelber - Nutrients, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
Anyone who wants to understand the biological nature of humans and their special
characteristics must look far back into evolutionary history. Today's way of life is drastically …

Stone Age Yersinia pestis genomes shed light on the early evolution, diversity, and ecology of plague

A Andrades Valtueña, GU Neumann… - Proceedings of the …, 2022‏ - pnas.org
The bacterial pathogen Yersinia pestis gave rise to devastating outbreaks throughout
human history, and ancient DNA evidence has shown it afflicted human populations as far …

Ten millennia of hepatitis B virus evolution

A Kocher, L Papac, R Barquera, FM Key, MA Spyrou… - Science, 2021‏ - science.org
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) has been infecting humans for millennia and remains a global health
problem, but its past diversity and dispersal routes are largely unknown. We generated HBV …

[ספר][B] The archaeology of human bones

S Mays - 2021‏ - taylorfrancis.com
The Archaeology of Human Bones provides an up to date account of the analysis of human
skeletal remains from archaeological sites, introducing students to the anatomy of bones …

Malaria in Europe: a historical perspective

MA Boualam, B Pradines, M Drancourt… - Frontiers in …, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
Endemic malaria, which claimed 229 million new cases and 409,000 deaths in 2019 mainly
in Africa, was eradicated from Europe by the mid-20th century. Historical descriptions of …

The past, present and future of ancient bacterial DNA

N Arning, DJ Wilson - Microbial Genomics, 2020‏ - microbiologyresearch.org
Groundbreaking studies conducted in the mid-1980s demonstrated the possibility of
sequencing ancient DNA (aDNA), which has allowed us to answer fundamental questions …

A Journey into the Evolution of Human Host-Oral Microbiome Relationship through Ancient Dental Calculus: A Sco** Review

A Putrino, E Marinelli, A Galeotti, GF Ferrazzano… - Microorganisms, 2024‏ - mdpi.com
One of the most promising areas of research in palaeomicrobiology is the study of the
human microbiome. In particular, ancient dental calculus helps to reconstruct a substantial …

Hybrid-capture target enrichment in human pathogens: identification, evolution, biosurveillance, and genomic epidemiology

ZBR Quek, SH Ng - Pathogens, 2024‏ - mdpi.com
High-throughput sequencing (HTS) has revolutionised the field of pathogen genomics,
enabling the direct recovery of pathogen genomes from clinical and environmental samples …