North Africa is a key region for understanding human history, but the genetic history of its
people is largely unknown. We present genomic data from seven 15,000-year-old modern …

The Canary Islands' indigenous people have been the subject of substantial archaeological,
anthropological, linguistic and genetic research pointing to a most probable North African …

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is a small fraction of our hereditary material. However, this
molecule has had an overwhelming presence in scientific research for decades until the …

North Africa is a key area for understanding hominin population movements and the
expansion of our species. It is home to the earliest currently known Homo sapiens (Jebel …

Abstract Context: The Mediterranean area has always played a significant role in human
dispersal due to the large number of migratory events contributing to shape the cultural …

After the dispersal of modern humans (Homo sapiens) Out of Africa, hominins with a similar
morphology to that of present-day humans initiated the gradual demographic expansion into …

Important gaps remain in our understanding of the spread of farming into Europe, due partly
to apparent contradictions between studies of contemporary genetic variation and ancient …

Historical records document medieval immigration from North Africa to Iberia to create
Islamic al-Andalus. Here, we present a low-coverage genome of an eleventh century CE …

Mycobacterium bovis is the pathogenic agent responsible for bovine tuberculosis (bTB), a
zoonotic disease affecting mostly cattle, but also transmittable to humans and wildlife …

Background The structure of haplogroup H reveals significant differences between the
western and eastern edges of the Mediterranean, as well as between the northern and …