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| Historical Y. pestis genomes reveal the European Black Death as the source of ancient and modern plague pandemics MA Spyrou, RI Tukhbatova, M Feldman, J Drath, S Kacki, JB de Heredia, ... Cell host & microbe 19 (6), 874-881, 2016 | 237 | 2016 |
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| Ancient pathogen genomics as an emerging tool for infectious disease research MA Spyrou, KI Bos, A Herbig, J Krause Nature Reviews Genetics 20 (6), 323-340, 2019 | 170 | 2019 |
| A High-Coverage Yersinia pestis Genome from a Sixth-Century Justinianic Plague Victim M Feldman, M Harbeck, M Keller, MA Spyrou, A Rott, B Trautmann, ... Molecular biology and evolution 33 (11), 2911-2923, 2016 | 159 | 2016 |
| Ancient Yersinia pestis genomes from across Western Europe reveal early diversification during the First Pandemic (541–750) M Keller, MA Spyrou, CL Scheib, GU Neumann, A Kröpelin, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (25), 12363-12372, 2019 | 142 | 2019 |
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| The stone age plague and its persistence in Eurasia A Andrades Valtueña, A Mittnik, FM Key, W Haak, R Allmäe, A Belinskij, ... Current Biology 27 (23), 3683-3691, 2017 | 120 | 2017 |
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| Paleolithic to Bronze Age Siberians reveal connections with first Americans and across Eurasia H Yu, MA Spyrou, M Karapetian, S Shnaider, R Radzevičiūtė, K Nägele, ... Cell 181 (6), 1232-1245. e20, 2020 | 71 | 2020 |
| A genome sequence from a modern human skull over 45,000 years old from Zlatý kůň in Czechia K Prüfer, C Posth, H Yu, A Stoessel, MA Spyrou, T Deviese, M Mattonai, ... Nature ecology & evolution 5 (6), 820-825, 2021 | 55 | 2021 |
| Paleomicrobiology: diagnosis and evolution of ancient pathogens KI Bos, D Kühnert, A Herbig, LR Esquivel-Gomez, A Andrades Valtueña, ... Annual Review of Microbiology 73, 639-666, 2019 | 50 | 2019 |
| Complete genome sequence of germline chromosomally integrated human herpesvirus 6A and analyses integration sites define a new human endogenous virus with potential to … J Tweedy, MA Spyrou, M Pearson, D Lassner, U Kuhl, UA Gompels Viruses 8 (1), 19, 2016 | 49 | 2016 |
| Ancient genomic time transect from the Central Asian Steppe unravels the history of the Scythians GA Gnecchi-Ruscone, E Khussainova, N Kahbatkyzy, L Musralina, ... Science Advances 7 (13), eabe4414, 2021 | 46 | 2021 |
| Parallel detection of ancient pathogens via array-based DNA capture KI Bos, G Jäger, VJ Schuenemann, ÅJ Vågene, MA Spyrou, A Herbig, ... Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 370 …, 2015 | 46 | 2015 |
| Dynamic changes in genomic and social structures in third millennium BCE central Europe L Papac, M Ernée, M Dobeš, M Langová, AB Rohrlach, F Aron, ... Science Advances 7 (35), eabi6941, 2021 | 40 | 2021 |
| Ten millennia of hepatitis B virus evolution A Kocher, L Papac, R Barquera, FM Key, MA Spyrou, R Hübler, ... Science 374 (6564), 182-188, 2021 | 39 | 2021 |
| A treponemal genome from an historic plague victim supports a recent emergence of yaws and its presence in 15th century Europe K Giffin, AK Lankapalli, S Sabin, MA Spyrou, C Posth, J Kozakaitė, ... Scientific Reports 10 (1), 1-13, 2020 | 39 | 2020 |
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