Microbial evolution and transitions along the parasite–mutualist continuum

GC Drew, EJ Stevens, KC King - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2021 - nature.com
Virtually all plants and animals, including humans, are home to symbiotic microorganisms.
Symbiotic interactions can be neutral, harmful or have beneficial effects on the host …

How to enter a bacterium: bacterial porins and the permeation of antibiotics

JD Prajapati, U Kleinekathöfer… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Despite tremendous successes in the field of antibiotic discovery seen in the previous
century, infectious diseases have remained a leading cause of death. More specifically …

The EnteroBase user's guide, with case studies on Salmonella transmissions, Yersinia pestis phylogeny, and Escherichia core genomic diversity

Z Zhou, NF Alikhan, K Mohamed, Y Fan… - Genome …, 2020 - genome.cshlp.org
EnteroBase is an integrated software environment that supports the identification of global
population structures within several bacterial genera that include pathogens. Here, we …

Elevated genetic risk for multiple sclerosis emerged in steppe pastoralist populations

W Barrie, Y Yang, EK Irving-Pease, KE Attfield… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neuro-inflammatory and neurodegenerative disease that is most
prevalent in Northern Europe. Although it is known that inherited risk for MS is located within …

[图书][B] Who we are and how we got here: Ancient DNA and the new science of the human past

D Reich - 2018 - books.google.com
The past few years have witnessed a revolution in our ability to obtain DNA from ancient
humans. This important new data has added to our knowledge from archaeology and …

Yersinia pestis: the natural history of plague

R Barbieri, M Signoli, D Chevé… - Clinical microbiology …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
SUMMARY The Gram-negative bacterium Yersinia pestis is responsible for deadly plague, a
zoonotic disease established in stable foci in the Americas, Africa, and Eurasia. Its …

The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe

I Olalde, S Brace, ME Allentoft, I Armit, K Kristiansen… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
From around 2750 to 2500 bc, Bell Beaker pottery became widespread across western and
central Europe, before it disappeared between 2200 and 1800 bc. The forces that propelled …

137 ancient human genomes from across the Eurasian steppes

PB Damgaard, N Marchi, S Rasmussen, M Peyrot… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
For thousands of years the Eurasian steppes have been a centre of human migrations and
cultural change. Here we sequence the genomes of 137 ancient humans (about 1× average …

Ecological consequences of human niche construction: Examining long-term anthropogenic shaping of global species distributions

NL Boivin, MA Zeder, DQ Fuller… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
The exhibition of increasingly intensive and complex niche construction behaviors through
time is a key feature of human evolution, culminating in the advanced capacity for ecosystem …

100 ancient genomes show repeated population turnovers in Neolithic Denmark

ME Allentoft, M Sikora, A Fischer, KG Sjögren… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Major migration events in Holocene Eurasia have been characterized genetically at broad
regional scales,,–. However, insights into the population dynamics in the contact zones are …