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CPG brings scientists from diverse disciplines together in a state-of-the-art aDNA research facility, and is jointly run by Stockholm University and the Swedish Museum of Natural History. More info: www.palaeogenetics.com

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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
New research (and new species) just out from Jonas Oppenheimer, Alexandre Gilardet and other researchers at #CpgSthlm!
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New paper alert 🚨 A study led by researchers at #CPGstlhm used 150 years of bumblebee museum specimens to reveal population stability and rising genomic diversity in Sweden's common carder bee! 🐝🧬🏛️ Check @indianadiez.bsky.social little thread ⬇️ OA article 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Love Dalén @lovedalen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
1/ Just back from fieldwork in the Klondike (Yukon #Canada) We had a great time, with a fantastic team from CPG (@cpgsthlm.bsky.social) + local Yukon collaborators, digging out ancient permafrost in search for Ice Age remains dating back roughly 900,000 - 600,000 years 🦣🐭🦴🧬 And we found A LOT…
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
🚨 A #CPGSthlm -led study uses a large-scale ancient DNA dataset to uncover the origins of Upper Paleolithic mammoth bone accumulations 🦣🦴🦴🦴🦴🧬 In contrast to dispersed sites, accumulations are female-biased, suggesting they resulted from human exploitation! 🏹🍖 OA paper👉 www.cell.com/current-biol...
Kraków Spadzista 2023 excavations. Photo credit: Jarosław Wilczyński
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Our #CPGSthlm delegation had great presentations and posters at #SMBE2026! 👏👏👏 ♥️🧬🦣🫎🦠🦋🐝🐀💀🦬🧪
CPG researchers at SMBE2026
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Lars Littmann will have a poster (nr. 097) titled "using historical clouded appollo specimens to track genomic erosion in Sweden" tomorrow as well.
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
@jonasoppenheimer.bsky.social will have a poster (nr. B269) titled "Yak X: an archaic bovine from Denisova Cave" also tomorrow in session B.
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
@reyhanyaka.bsky.social will have a poster (nr. B226) titled "The Royal Warship Kronan: Revealing the Crew through Archaeogenomics" tomorrow in session B.
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
@mootspoints.bsky.social will have a poster (nr. 268) titled "Extending the Shelf Life: Optimizing Ancient DNA Recovery from Highly Degraded Material in Museum Collections" tomorrow in the session "L03 Beyond limits: unlocking the potential of ancient animal genomics".
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
@zoepochon.bsky.social will present her talk "Parvovirus B19 from early modern warships suggests genotype 2 continuity in Europe, bridging a millennium-long gap" tomorrow at 15:50 in the session "L06 From Ancient Pathogen Genomics to Palaeoepidemiology".
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Michael Mitschke will be talking about "Signals of hybridization between commercial and wild bumblebees revealed by museum genomics" tomorrow at 12:00, also in the session "Open 3: Ancient and Historical genomes".
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Tomorrow we will have @amanda-meuser.bsky.social talking about "Evolutionary dynamics of extinct and extant moose hybridization in North America" at 10:20 in the session "Open 3: Ancient and Historical genomes".
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
@amandalindahl.bsky.social will present her poster nr. 344 titled "A genomic perspective on the evolution of modern water voles (Arvicola sp.)" in session "S05 Molecular Evolution in the Era of Genetic Diversity Decline" today 18:00-20:00.
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
After #ICP2026, #CPGsthlm has officially landed in Copenhagen for #SMBE2026! 🇩🇰🧬 We are bringing a delegation from Stockholm to share our latest research. Here is a breakdown of every CPG presentation happening this week 🧵👇 Don't miss out!
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ICP2026 Stockholm @palaeogenomics.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
♥️ THANK YOU ♥️ We are overwhelmed by the positive comments and are incredibly happy that everyone enjoyed their time in Stockholm! #ICP2026 was only possible with the hard work of the organizing committee and a marvellous team of ECR volunteers 🟠 at @cpgsthlm.bsky.social
Organizing committee and volunteer team for #ICP2026
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ICP2026 Stockholm @palaeogenomics.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Wake up you sleepy heads, rub your eyes and get out of bed! 😴 Our final plenary talk is by the great Beth Shapiro, on the use of ancient DNA to reconstruct the bison's evolutionary history. #ICP2026 🦬🧬🦴🧪
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ICP2026 Stockholm @palaeogenomics.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Welcome to #ICP2026 🎉 Registration is open today at Aula Magna until 18:00. The Welcome Reception🥂 at the Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet) 🦴🏛️ will start at 18:00. Don't miss it!! Full conference info 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org #ancientDNA 🧪🦣🧬🦴🦠
Main entrance at Aula MagnaMain entrance at the Swedish Museum of Natural History
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Isabelle Feinauer is currently defending their PhD thesis on the genomic consequences of postglacial recolonization of Scandinavian mammals with Morten Tange Olsen as the opponent. Good luck, Isa!
Morten presents to the audience.Isa and Morten discussing bear phylogenetic trees.Isa at the beginning of her presentation.Morten explains Isa's thesis topic.
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ICP2026 Stockholm @palaeogenomics.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Meet our keynote speakers 💁‍♂️ MATTIAS JAKOBSSON (@humanevouu.bsky.social) Mattias is a leader in employing large-scale genomic datasets to reconstruct the demographic history and evolutionary processes of past human populations. Check the full conference program👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org/program/
Mattias poses with a bone in his hand.ICP2026 flyer
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Huge congratulations to lead author David Stanton, as well as all co-authors and collaborators who helped make this study possible! Photo: The female cave lion cub named Sparta, whose genome was sequenced in this study (photo taken by Love Dalén) 🧵 9/9
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Ancient DNA is revealing that many extinct species had much deeper and more complex histories than we once imagined. The cave lion was the product of nearly 2 million years of independent evolution. Photo: Skull of cave lion (photo taken by Love Dalén) 🧵 8/9
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
One surprise: cave lions do not appear to have been in a long-term demographic decline before extinction. Their effective population size may actually have exceeded that of modern African lions. Image: Population size changes in lions over time 🧵 7/9
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
We also identified cave-lion-specific genetic changes in genes linked to neurological function, vision and the circulatory system. Potential clues to how these animals adapted to Ice Age environments. Image: Functions linked to genetic changes in cave lions 🧵 6/9
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Even more remarkably, the amount of modern lion ancestry in cave lions increased during glacial periods and decreased during warmer intervals. Climate appears to have repeatedly brought the two species together. Image: Amount of interbreeding was correlated with global ice volume 🧵 5/9
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
But despite this deep divergence, cave lions and the ancestors of modern lions occasionally interbred. Their genomes preserve the signatures of those ancient encounters. Image: The extinct modern lion population from southwest Asia showed the best evidence for modern <-> cave interbreeding. 🧵 4/9
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Our results show that cave lions were not just a northern population of modern lions. They represented a distinct evolutionary lineage that persisted in Eurasia for nearly 2 million years. Image: A) cave lion samples, B) modern and cave lions were distinct lineages, C) modern lion samples 🧵 3/9
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The cave lion was one of the most successful predators of the Ice Age. It ranged from Britain to Alaska and is immortalized in spectacular prehistoric cave art. Picture: European cave lions in Chauvet Cave, museum replica (WikiCommons) 🧵 2/9
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
🧬 New paper in Cell! Analysis of 12 cave lion genomes shows that cave lions and modern lions may have diverged more than three times earlier than previously thought – as early as 1.7 million years ago! AND…they interbred when temperatures dropped! Paper: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 🧵 1/9
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
#CPGStlhm 's PhD candidate @officialernst.bsky.social is currently defending his thesis on using metagenomics sedimentary DNA to reconstruct past ecosystems 🧬🏞️ in Sweden with Laura Epp as opponent. Good luck, Ernst!
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Stockholm University @stockholm-uni.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Grattis till Anders Götherström professor i molekylär arkeologi vid Stockholms universitet och forskningsledare vid @cpgsthlm.bsky.social som har valts in som ny ledamot i KVA. @gotherstrom.bsky.social @scienceacademyswe.bsky.social www.su.se/nyheter/nyhe...
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Stockholm University @stockholm-uni.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
For more than a century, vast mammoth bone deposits in Central Europe have puzzled scientists. Now EU-funded researchers are revealing what they tell us about how Ice Age humans hunted and survived. Research project including @cpgsthlm.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @horizoneu.bsky.social bit.ly/4uko4PN
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Mammoth bones reveal secrets of Ice Age hunters
Shortly before the peak of the last Ice Age, herds of woolly mammoths roamed across Central Europe, following seasonal routes through a vast, frigid landscape of grassland and tundra. Across the regio...
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David Díez del Molino 🇪🇸🇸🇪🏳️‍🌈 @indianadiez.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
What do mammoth bone accumulation sites scattered across Europe tell about ancient humans? 🦴🦣🧬 Check this nice piece about our MAMBA project in the Horizon Magazine. Article ➡️ bit.ly/4uko4PN
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Mammoth bones reveal secrets of Ice Age hunters
Shortly before the peak of the last Ice Age, herds of woolly mammoths roamed across Central Europe, following seasonal routes through a vast, frigid landscape of grassland and tundra. Across the regio...
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
New paper alert 🚨 A study led by #CPGSthlm researchers found DNA from a bear in 9.6k year old lake sediments. This potentially rewrites the history of brown bears in Scandinavia! 🧬🐻🐾🏔️🧊 Check @officialernst.bsky.social thread 👉 bsky.app/profile/offi... OA article 👉 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Ancient environmental genome reveals a migratory brown bear individual in Early Holocene Scandinavia | PNAS
After the last ice age, species migrated into a newly deglaciated Scandinavia. Brown bear recolonization is thought to have occurred from two direc...
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ICP2026 Stockholm @palaeogenomics.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Meet our keynote speakers 💁‍♂️ CRISTINA VALDIOSERA (@universidadburgos.bsky.social) Cristina is a leading expert in ancient human DNA, focusing on the genomic history of past populations and the impact of cultural shifts on human evolution. Conference info & registration 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org
Cristina smilingICP2026 flyer
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HAAM-community @haam-community.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
📢 Next #HAAMeeting at #ICP2026! @palaeogenomics.bsky.social 🗓 June 22 📍Stockholm 🇸🇪 (hybrid) 🎤 Poster presenters + no-talk attendees: apply for a flash talk by May 27: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... More info coming soon 👀 haam-community.github.io/events/2026/... #ancientDNA #paleogenomics
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Submission form for a flash talk at the Second HAAMeeting (ICP 2026 Pre-Conference meeting)
Did you NOT get a talk at ICP2026 scheduled from 23rd to 26th of June in Stockholm (Sweden) and you're focusing on anything related to human (modern or ancient) DNA, mobility, demographic history, or ...
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
We present DNAharvester 🎉🦴🚜🧬 A pipeline to process highly degraded ancient DNA data that integrates metagenomic filtering, competitive mapping, multiple alignment strategies, reference bias evaluation and much more. GitHub: github.com/NBISweden/DN... Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
DNAharvester's workflow.
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ICP2026 Stockholm @palaeogenomics.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Meet our keynote speakers 💁‍♂️ RICHARD GREEN (UCSC Paleogenomics Lab) Ed is a pioneer in developing novel molecular and computational approaches to recover, sequence, and analyze DNA from challenging, low-quality samples. Conference info & registration 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org
Ed showing a replica of a skull.ICP2026 flyer
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Come join us in Stockholm as a PhD student for the next 4 years!
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Love Dalén @lovedalen.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
How did catastrophic black death and myxomatosis outbreaks on an isolated island affect the genomes of humans & rabbits, respectively? And how did the microbes evolve in response to this? PhD position @cpgsthlm.bsky.social with Anders Götherström and me as supervisors! su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Congrats to the team 🎉 Here are some interesting popsci summaries of the article's findings. @eurekalert.bsky.social www.eurekalert.org/news-release... @theconversation.com theconversation.com/el-adn-de-un...
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Medieval DNA reveals trans-Saharan connections, rapid genetic mixing, and leprosy in Islamic Ibiza
Medieval Ibiza was far from a quiet Mediterranean backwater. New DNA evidence shows that the island was part of a dynamic world linking Europe, North Africa and even the Sahel zone, south of Sahara. A...
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
By investigating the presence of pathogens in the remains, the authors detected one individual carrying Mycobacterium leprae 🦠 (the bacteria responsible for leprosy), providing insight into the health of medieval Ibiza societies.
Maximum-likelihood (ML) phylogeny of Mycobacterium leprae.Microscopy image of Mycobacterium leprae.
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Their results also reveal direct genetic links to Senegambia and southern Chad, showing that medieval Ibiza was connected to wider trans-Saharan networks. These data match historical sources describing Almoravid movements, military recruitment, and slave and trade networks across the Sahara.
Plan of the excavation. The analysed burials are shown in red.Aerial view of the cemetery, which was discovered by chance during construction works.
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
New paper alert 🚨 Researchers at #CPGStlhm have analyzed ancient genomes from an Islamic cemetery in Ibiza (950–1150 CE) 🏖️ They found a highly diverse community with ancestry from Europe and North Africa! The paper was published in @natcomms.nature.com OA link www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Map of the Mediterranean during the Middle Ages, showing the Islamic areas of influence and Ibiza.Ricardo, lead author of the article, processing one of the samples in the lab.
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Stockholm University @stockholm-uni.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Dogs were established as distinct species already during Ice Age. New study in Nature has uncovered earliest genetic evidence for the existence of dogs and indicates that dogs were widely distributed by 14,000 years ago across large geographic areas. @cpgsthlm.bsky.social www.su.se/english/news...
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Stockholm University @stockholm-uni.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Trots att brunbjörnen nästan utrotades i början på 1900-talet så har varken inavelsgraden eller individernas genetiska variation påverkats. Detta överraskande resultat kan troligtvis förklaras med genetiskt utbyte via vandrande hanbjörnar. Studie från @cpgsthlm.bsky.social www.su.se/nyheter/nyhe...
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Amanda Lindahl @amandalindahl.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Check out our bear-y cool paper about Scandinavian brown bears published today in Royal Society Open Science!🐻 More about it in the thread🧵 @cpgsthlm.bsky.social doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
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Temporal genomics reveals widespread but unexpected consequences of a bottleneck in the Scandinavian brown bear
Abstract. After the last ice age, the brown bear (Ursus arctos) recolonized Scandinavia, likely from two different source populations, resulting in two sub
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Two palaeogeneticists traveling to Northern Yukon's wilderness in search of extremely old DNA 🧊🧬🧪 A mysterious permafrost mummy hidden in the collections 🦴🕵️ An Agatha Christie book 📖 @gog1693.bsky.social behind-the-scenes story on his paper has EVERYTHING! Paper 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The mysterious mummified tissue found in the collections, nicknamed "Mr. Parker Pyne".Gonzalo sampling some specimen in Whitehorse collections.It was a porcupine!
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ICP2026 Stockholm @palaeogenomics.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Meet our keynote speakers 💁‍♂️ PONTUS SKOGLUND (@crick.ac.uk) Pontus is a leader in developing cutting-edge computational methods and statistical tools for the analysis of highly degraded ancient DNA. Conference info & registration 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org
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ICP2026 Stockholm @palaeogenomics.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Meet our keynote speakers 💁‍♂️ LUCY VAN DORP (@ugiatucl.bsky.social) Lucy is a leading expert in ancient microbe research, using ancient DNA to reconstruct the origins, evolution, and spread of major human pathogens throughout history. Conference info & registration 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Congrats to Alicia Muriel and Michael Mitschke for successfully presenting their research in Half-Time PhD seminars!! 🎉🐑🐝🧬
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