Tiny travel companions. As microorganisms have accompanied mankind's journeys around the globe, they could help scientists to unravel our past

EMBO Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 121-125

  Rinaldi, Andrea ^a  

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; SINGLE STRANDED RNA;

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DUODENUM ULCER; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HEPATITIS G; HEPATITIS G VIRUS; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; JC VIRUS; LEPROSY; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; LOUSE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MIGRATION; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOSIS; PATERNALISM; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STOMACH ULCER; VIRUS GENOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; PARASITES; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SYMBIOSIS; VIRUSES;

EID: 33847421784     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400908     Document Type: Article

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