Studies of ancient DNA have transformed our understanding of human evolution.
Paleogenomics can also reveal historic and prehistoric agents of disease, including …

Objectives Limited studies have focused on how European contact and colonialism
impacted Native American oral microbiomes, specifically, the diversity of commensal or …

The introduction of pathogens originating from Eurasia into the Americas during early
European contact has been associated with high mortality rates among Indigenous peoples …

While many studies have highlighted human adaptations to diverse environments
worldwide, genomic studies of natural selection in Indigenous populations in the Americas …

Recent exploration into the interactions and relationship between hosts and their microbiota
has revealed a connection between many aspects of the host's biology, health and …

The notion of “emerging infectious diseases”(EID) as a category of global health concerns
was created in the 1990s to acknowledge that, although public health interventions …

Pathogens and associated outbreaks of infectious disease exert selective pressure on
human populations, and any changes in allele frequencies that result may be especially …

Abstract The Wartberg culture (WBC, 3500-2800 BCE) dates to the Late Neolithic period, a
time of important demographic and cultural transformations in western Europe. We …

Dental calculus, the calcified form of the mammalian oral microbial plaque biofilm, is a rich
source of oral microbiome, host, and dietary biomolecules and is well preserved in museum …

Typhoid and paratyphoid fever are severe systemic infections caused by human-adapted
typhoidal Salmonella serovars that are indistinguishable in their clinical presentation, but …