Can we reconstruct ancient pathogen genomes from animal remains? Can paleopathology help prioritize promising specimens? Our new paper demonstrates this by screening more than 300 specimens from across Eurasia over the past 6,000 years. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
For a detailed thread, please see here bsky.app/profile/keyf.... Alongside the sequencing data, we have now included extensive metadata for each sample in the supplementary materials to enable reanalysis by others. If any sample is of interest to you, please reach out.
This highly interdisciplinary effort was led by my amazing postdoc, AK Runge, and the zooarchaeologist and paleopathologist Kamilla Pawlowska (U Poznan), with contributions from many others who provided specimens and analyses.