Byzantine Skeleton Yields 800-Year-Old Genomes From a Fatal Infection
Tuesday, January 10, 2017 - 17:01
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Writing this week (Jan. 10, 2017) in the journal eLife, a team led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Caitlin Pepperell and McMaster University's Hendrik Poinar provides insight into the everyday hazards of life in the late Byzantine Empire, sometime around the early 13th century, as well as the evolution of Staphylococcus saprophyticus, a common bacterial pathogen.