Pathogens and host immunity in the ancient human oral cavity.
Christina Warinner,
João F Matias Rodrigues,
Rounak Vyas,
Christian Trachsel,
Natallia Shved,
Jonas Grossmann,
Anita Radini,
Y Hancock,
Raul Y Tito,
Sarah Fiddyment,
Camilla Speller,
Jessica Hendy,
Sophy Charlton,
Hans Ulrich Luder,
Domingo C Salazar-García,
Elisabeth Eppler,
Roger Seiler,
Lars H Hansen,
José Alfredo Samaniego Castruita,
Simon Barkow-Oesterreicher,
Kai Yik Teoh,
Christian D Kelstrup,
Jesper V Olsen,
Paolo Nanni,
Toshihisa Kawai,
Eske Willerslev,
Christian von Mering,
Cecil M Lewis,
Matthew J Collins,
M Thomas P Gilbert,
Frank Rühli,
Enrico Cappellini
Nov 22, 2018
Calcified dental plaque (dental calculus) preserves for millennia and entraps biomolecules from all domains of life and viruses. We report the first, to our knowledge, high-resolution taxonomic and protein functional...