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| A genome sequence from a modern human skull over 45,000 years old from Zlatý kůň in Czechia K Prüfer, C Posth, H Yu, A Stoessel, MA Spyrou, T Deviese, M Mattonai, ... Nature ecology & evolution 5 (6), 820-825, 2021 | 105 | 2021 |
| Paleolithic to Bronze Age Siberians reveal connections with first Americans and across Eurasia H Yu, MA Spyrou, M Karapetian, S Shnaider, R Radzevičiūtė, K Nägele, ... Cell 181 (6), 1232-1245. e20, 2020 | 103 | 2020 |
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| Dynamic changes in genomic and social structures in third millennium BCE central Europe L Papac, M Ernée, M Dobeš, M Langová, AB Rohrlach, F Aron, ... Science Advances 7 (35), eabi6941, 2021 | 92 | 2021 |
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| Ten millennia of hepatitis B virus evolution A Kocher, L Papac, R Barquera, FM Key, MA Spyrou, R Hübler, ... Science 374 (6564), 182-188, 2021 | 77 | 2021 |
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| Complete genome sequence of germline chromosomally integrated human herpesvirus 6A and analyses integration sites define a new human endogenous virus with potential to … J Tweedy, MA Spyrou, M Pearson, D Lassner, U Kuhl, UA Gompels Viruses 8 (1), 19, 2016 | 54 | 2016 |
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