Pre-Columbian mycobacterial genomes reveal seals as a source of New World human tuberculosis

2014/08/19 by Kirsten I. Bos, Kelly M. Harkins, Alexander Herbig +33 · 2 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Medicine · #Ancient DNA #Biology #Comparative genomics #Gene #Genetics #Genome #Genomics #Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies #Human migration #Human pathogen #Medicine #Mycobacterium tuberculosis #Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex #Old World #Population #Tuberculosis #Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology #Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research #Zoology

paper · pdf · doi:10.1038/nature13591

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