Kelly Elaine Blevins
@blevinske.bsky.social
Asking bioarchaeological Qs using skeletal remains 🦴 and the genomes 🧬 they harbor 🦠 Formerly @StoneLab_ASU | Currently @WhatIsInAHouse postdoc | she/her
Reposted by Kelly Elaine Blevins
Many zoonotic diseases are believed to have emerged during prehistory, but can we actually identify their past host range using ancient DNA? In the first publication of the Key Lab we present a 4000y old Yersinia pestis genome reconstructed from domesticated sheep. 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Bronze Age Yersinia pestis genome from sheep sheds light on hosts and evolution of a prehistoric plague lineage
Most human pathogens are of zoonotic origin. Many emerged during prehistory, coinciding with domestication providing more opportunities for spillover from original host species. However, we lack direc...
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February 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Many zoonotic diseases are believed to have emerged during prehistory, but can we actually identify their past host range using ancient DNA? In the first publication of the Key Lab we present a 4000y old Yersinia pestis genome reconstructed from domesticated sheep. 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...