Pathogenicity and virulence of Yersinia

JA Seabaugh, DM Anderson - Virulence, 2024‏ - Taylor & Francis
The genus Yersinia includes human, animal, insect, and plant pathogens as well as many
symbionts and harmless bacteria. Within this genus are Yersinia enterocolitica and the …

Repeated plague infections across six generations of Neolithic Farmers

FV Seersholm, KG Sjögren, J Koelman, M Blank… - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
In the period between 5,300 and 4,900 calibrated years before present (cal. bp), populations
across large parts of Europe underwent a period of demographic decline,. However, the …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic adaptation to pathogens and increased risk of inflammatory disorders in post-Neolithic Europe

G Kerner, AL Neehus, Q Philippot, J Bohlen, D Rinchai… - Cell genomics, 2023‏ - cell.com
Ancient genomics can directly detect human genetic adaptation to environmental cues.
However, it remains unclear how pathogens have exerted selective pressures on human …

Early contact between late farming and pastoralist societies in southeastern Europe

S Penske, AB Rohrlach, A Childebayeva… - Nature, 2023‏ - nature.com
Archaeogenetic studies have described two main genetic turnover events in prehistoric
western Eurasia: one associated with the spread of farming and a sedentary lifestyle starting …

Ancient Plasmodium genomes shed light on the history of human malaria

M Michel, E Skourtanioti, F Pierini, EK Guevara… - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
Malaria-causing protozoa of the genus Plasmodium have exerted one of the strongest
selective pressures on the human genome, and resistance alleles provide biomolecular …

Natural products from reconstructed bacterial genomes of the Middle and Upper Paleolithic

M Klapper, A Hübner, A Ibrahim, I Wasmuth, M Borry… - Science, 2023‏ - science.org
Major advances over the past decade in the field of ancient DNA are providing access to
past paleogenomic diversity, but the diverse functions and biosynthetic capabilities of this …

Kinship practices in the early state El Argar society from Bronze Age Iberia

V Villalba-Mouco, C Oliart, C Rihuete-Herrada… - Scientific Reports, 2022‏ - nature.com
Abstract The Early Bronze Age in Europe is characterized by social and genetic
transformations, starting in the early 3rd millennium BCE. New settlement and funerary …

The immunogenetic impact of European colonization in the Americas

EJ Collen, AS Johar, JC Teixeira, B Llamas - Frontiers in genetics, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
The introduction of pathogens originating from Eurasia into the Americas during early
European contact has been associated with high mortality rates among Indigenous peoples …

Yersinia pestis and plague: some knowns and unknowns

R Yang, S Atkinson, Z Chen, Y Cui… - Zoonoses …, 2023‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Since its first identification in 1894 during the third pandemic in Hong Kong, there has been
significant progress of understanding the lifestyle of Yersinia pestis, the pathogen that is …

Ancient pathogens provide a window into health and well-being

CM Lewis Jr, MY Akinyi, SN DeWitte… - Proceedings of the …, 2023‏ - pnas.org
This perspective draws on the record of ancient pathogen genomes and microbiomes
illuminating patterns of infectious disease over the course of the Holocene in order to …