ReviewMicrobial genomics2020
The past, present and future of ancient bacterial DNA.
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- Ancient DNA as a temporal lens: reconstructing evolution, migration, and disease dynamics.Journal, genetic engineering & biotechnology · 2026Review
- South Asian origin and global transmission history ofmSystems · 2025Article
- Testing times: disentangling admixture histories in recent and complex demographies using ancient DNA.Genetics · 2024Article
- A Journey into the Evolution of Human Host-Oral Microbiome Relationship through Ancient Dental Calculus: A Scoping Review.Microorganisms · 2024Article
- Modeling the mosaic structure of bacterial genomes to infer their evolutionary history.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Paleomicrobiology: Tracking the past microbial life from single species to entire microbial communities.Microbial biotechnology · 2024Review
- Testing Times: Challenges in Disentangling Admixture Histories in Recent and Complex Demographies.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Ancient Clostridium DNA and variants of tetanus neurotoxins associated with human archaeological remains.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Novel Sources of Biodiversity and Biomolecules from Bacteria Isolated from a High Middle Ages Soil Sample in Palermo (Sicily, Italy).Microbiology spectrum · 2023Article
- Historic and Prehistoric Epidemics: An Overview of Sources Available for the Study of Ancient Pathogens.Epidemiologia (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- A new perspective on ancient Mitis group streptococcal genetics.Microbial genomics · 2022Article
- Sampling across large-scale geological gradients to study geosphere-biosphere interactions.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Permafrost Immunity.Bioinformation · 2022Article
- Malaria in Europe: A Historical Perspective.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Review
- Yersinia pestis: the Natural History of Plague.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2020Review
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Abstract
Groundbreaking studies conducted in the mid-1980s demonstrated the possibility of sequencing ancient DNA (aDNA), which has allowed us to answer fundamental questions about the human past. Microbiologists were thus given a powerful tool to glimpse directly into inscrutable bacterial history, hitherto inaccessible due to a poor fossil record. Initially plagued by concerns regarding contamination, the field has grown alongside technical progress, with the advent of high-throughput sequencing being a breakthrough in sequence output and authentication. Albeit burdened with challenges unique to the analysis of bacteria, a growing number of viable sources for aDNA has opened multiple avenues of microbial research. Ancient pathogens have been extracted from bones, dental pulp, mummies and historical medical specimens and have answered focal historical questions such as identifying the aetiological agent of the black death as
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