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Felix M Key @keyfm.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Can we reconstruct ancient pathogen genomes from animal remains? Can paleopathology help prioritize promising specimens? Our new paper demonstrates this by screening more than 300 specimens from across Eurasia over the past 6,000 years. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Probing the zooarchaeological record across time and space for ancient pathogen DNA - Nature Communications

Authors investigate ancient DNA from animal remains and identify multiple signatures of ancient zoonotic pathogens. They find ancient pathogen genomics from archaeological animal remains may inform zo...

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Felix M Key @keyfm.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

For a detailed thread, please see here bsky.app/profile/keyf.... Alongside the sequencing data, we have now included extensive metadata for each sample in the supplementary materials to enable reanalysis by others. If any sample is of interest to you, please reach out.

Felix M Key@keyfm.bsky.social

Ancient pathogen DNA from animals can shed light on zoonotic processes in the deep past,but to this day reconstructed genomes are rare. In our new ms we explore the possibility of identifying pathogen DNA from the zooarchaeological record across 6000 years of Eurasian history doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Probing the zooarchaeological record across time and space for ancient pathogens

Zoonoses are among the greatest threats to human health, with many zoonotic pathogens believed to have emerged during prehistory. Palaeomicrobiological investigations of the zooarchaeological record h...

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Felix M Key @keyfm.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

This highly interdisciplinary effort was led by my amazing postdoc, AK Runge, and the zooarchaeologist and paleopathologist Kamilla Pawlowska (U Poznan), with contributions from many others who provided specimens and analyses.

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