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The Earliest Farmers of Northwest China Exploited Grain-fed Pheasants not Chickens
(2020-02-13)
Though chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus) are globally ubiquitous today, the timing, location, and manner of their domestication is contentious. Until recently, archaeologists placed the origin of the domestic chicken in ...
Intrinsic challenges in ancient microbiome reconstruction using 16S rRNA gene amplification
(2015-11-13)
To date, characterization of ancient oral (dental calculus) and gut (coprolite) microbiota has been primarily accomplished through a metataxonomic approach involving targeted amplification of one or more variable regions ...
Biogeographic Study of Human Gut-Associated CrAssphage Suggests Impacts From Industrialization and Recent Expansion
(2020-01-15)
CrAssphage (cross-assembly phage) is a bacteriophage that was first discovered in human gut metagenomic data. CrAssphage belongs to a diverse family of crAss-like bacteriophages thought to infect gut commensal bacteria ...