Sequencing ancient calcified dental plaque shows changes in oral microbiota with dietary shifts of the Neolithic and Industrial revolutions

Nature Genetics

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 450-455

  Adler, Christina J ^a,b   Dobney, Keith ^c   Weyrich, Laura S ^a   Kaidonis, John ^a   Walker, Alan W ^d   Haak, Wolfgang ^a   Bradshaw, Corey J A ^a,e   Townsend, Grant ^a   Sołtysiak, Arkadiusz ^f   Alt, Kurt W ^g   Parkhill, Julian ^d   Cooper, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^d WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^e SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^g JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANIMAL HUNTING; ARTICLE; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MIDDLE AGES; MOUTH FLORA; NEOLITHIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON; TOOTH CALCULUS; TOOTH PLAQUE;

ARCHAEOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DENTAL PLAQUE; DIET; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; METAGENOME; MOUTH MUCOSA;

EID: 84875759214     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.2536     Document Type: Article

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