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Ancient Plasmodium genomes shed light on the history of human malaria.
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Megan MichelDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. megan_michel@eva.mpg.de.ORCID 0000-0002-5484-7974
Eirini SkourtaniotiDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2975-3869
Federica PieriniDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Evelyn K GuevaraDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Angela MötschDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Arthur KocherDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Rodrigo BarqueraDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0518-4518
Raffaela A BiancoDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0009-0004-6087-8031
Selina CarlhoffDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-9118-2839
Lorenza Coppola BoveDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Suzanne FreilichDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Karen GiffinDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Taylor HermesDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8377-468X
Alina HißDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Florian KnolleDepartment of Medical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Applied Sciences Jena, Jena, Germany.
Elizabeth A NelsonMicrobial Palaeogenomics Unit, Department of Genomes and Genetics, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
Gunnar U NeumannDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3825-8536
Luka PapacDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Sandra PenskeDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2800-0371
Adam B RohrlachDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4204-5018
Nada SalemDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Lena SemerauDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Vanessa Villalba-MoucoDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9357-5238
Isabelle AbadieInrap - Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives, Paris, France.
Mark AldenderferDepartment of Anthropology and Heritage Studies, University of California, Merced, Merced, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7033-4319
Jessica F BeckettIndependent consultant, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy.
Matthew BrownSociology and Anthropology Department, Farmingdale State College, Farmingdale, NY, USA.
Franco G R CampusDepartment of History, Human Sciences, and Education, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy.
Tsang ChenghwaInstitute of Anthropology, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
María Cruz BerrocalInstitute of Heritage Sciences (INCIPIT), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-0188-0540
Ladislav DamašekInstitute of Classical Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
Kellie Sara Duffett CarlsonHuman Evolution and Archaeological Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Raphaël DurandService d'archéologie préventive Bourges plus, Bourges, France.
Michal ErnéeDepartment of Prehistoric Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0003-4847-8532
Cristinel FântăneanuNational Museum of Unification Alba Iulia, Alba Iulia, Romania.
Hannah FrenzelAnatomy Institute, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
Gabriel García AtiénzarInstituto Universitario de Investigación en Arqueología y Patrimonio Histórico, Universidad de Alicante, San Vicente del Raspeig (Alicante), Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-9390-8111
Sonia GuillénCentro Mallqui, Lima, Peru.
Ellen HsiehInstitute of Anthropology, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-1635-9021
Maciej KarwowskiInstitut für Urgeschichte und Historische Archäologie, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-5978-9064
David KelvinDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Nikki KelvinDivision of Ancient Pathogens, BioForge Canada Limited, Halifax, Nove Scotia, Canada.
Alexander KhokhlovSamara State University of Social Sciences and Education, Samara, Russia.
Rebecca L KinastonBioArch South, Waitati, New Zealand.
Arkadii KorolevSamara State University of Social Sciences and Education, Samara, Russia.
Kim-Louise KrettekSenckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.ORCID 0009-0006-7631-1974
Mario KüßnerThuringian State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology, Weimar, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4915-0179
Luca LaiDepartment of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA.
Cory LookSociology and Anthropology Department, Farmingdale State College, Farmingdale, NY, USA.
Kerttu MajanderDepartment of Environmental Science, Integrative Prehistory and Archaeological Science, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-7922-4482
Kirsten MandlDepartment of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Vittorio MazzarelloDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy.
Michael McCormickMax Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean.ORCID 0000-0001-7964-9387
Patxuka de Miguel IbáñezInstituto Universitario de Investigación en Arqueología y Patrimonio Histórico, Universidad de Alicante, San Vicente del Raspeig (Alicante), Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-3957-3378
Reg MurphyUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA.
Rita E NémethMureș County Museum, Târgu Mureş, Romania.ORCID 0009-0002-5003-0243
Kerkko NordqvistHelsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.ORCID 0000-0001-8696-1707
Friederike NovotnyDepartment of Anthropology, Natural History Museum Vienna, Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0001-7368-2020
Martin ObenausSilva Nortica Archäologische Dienstleistungen, Thunau am Kamp, Austria.ORCID 0009-0003-1794-5983
Lauro Olmo-EncisoDepartment of History, University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Spain.
Päivi OnkamoDepartment of Biology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
Jörg OrschiedtLandesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3629-8251
Valerii PatrushevCentre of Archaeological and Ethnographical Investigation, Mari State University, Yoshkar-Ola, Russia.
Sanni PeltolaDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Alejandro RomeroInstituto Universitario de Investigación en Arqueología y Patrimonio Histórico, Universidad de Alicante, San Vicente del Raspeig (Alicante), Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-5743-0613
Salvatore RubinoDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy.
Antti SajantilaDepartment of Forensic Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.ORCID 0000-0003-4117-5248
Domingo C Salazar-GarcíaDepartament de Prehistòria, Arqueologia i Història Antiga, Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain.
Elena SerranoInstituto Internacional de Investigaciones Prehistóricas, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain.
Shapulat ShaydullaevFaculty of History, Termez State University, Termez, Uzbekistan.ORCID 0000-0001-7813-7929
Emanuela SiasCentro Studi sulla Civiltà del Mare, Stintino, Italy.
Mario ŠlausAnthropological Center, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb, Croatia.
Ladislav StančoInstitute of Classical Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
Treena SwanstonDepartment of Anthropology, Economics and Political Science, MacEwan University, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Maria Teschler-NicolaDepartment of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0003-3080-3085
Frederique ValentinUMR 8068, CNRS, Nanterre, France.ORCID 0000-0002-0575-7681
Katrien Van de VijverRoyal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium.
Tamara L VarneyDepartment of Anthropology, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-1604-5540
Alfonso Vigil-Escalera GuiradoDepartamento de Humanidades: Historia, Geografía y Arte, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Getafe, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-3913-4554
Christopher K WatersHeritage Department, National Parks of Antigua and Barbuda, St. Paul's Parish, Antigua and Barbuda.
Estella Weiss-KrejciAustrian Archaeological Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-9762-2038
Eduard WinterDepartment of Anthropology, Natural History Museum Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Thiseas C LamnidisDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4485-8570
Kay PrüferDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6242-3058
Kathrin NägeleDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3861-8677
Maria SpyrouDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3615-3936
Stephan SchiffelsDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1017-9150
Philipp W StockhammerDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Wolfgang HaakDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2475-2007
Cosimo PosthDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8206-3907
Christina WarinnerDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Kirsten I BosDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Alexander HerbigDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. alexander_herbig@eva.mpg.de.ORCID 0000-0003-1176-1166
Johannes KrauseDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. krause@eva.mpg.de.ORCID 0000-0001-9144-3920
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Canadian Institutes for Health ResearchEuropean Union’s Horizon 2020 programmeNational Science Foundation
Abstract
Malaria-causing protozoa of the genus Plasmodium have exerted one of the strongest selective pressures on the human genome, and resistance alleles provide biomolecular footprints that outline the historical reach of these species
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DNA, AncientGenome, MitochondrialGenome, ProtozoanMalariaPlasmodiumAltitudeAmericasAsiaBiological EvolutionDisease ResistanceEuropeFemaleHistory, AncientHumansMalaria, FalciparumMalaria, VivaxDNA, Ancient
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