Parasitic infections and resource economy of Danish Iron Age settlement through ancient DNA sequencing.

In this study, we screen archaeological soil samples by microscopy and analyse the samples by next generation sequencing to obtain results with parasites at species level and untargeted findings of plant and animal DNA. Three separate sediment layers of an ancient man-made pond in Hoby, Denmark, ran...

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Main Authors: Katrine Wegener Tams, Martin Jensen Søe, Inga Merkyte, Frederik Valeur Seersholm, Peter Steen Henriksen, Susanne Klingenberg, Eske Willerslev, Kurt H Kjær, Anders Johannes Hansen, Christian Moliin Outzen Kapel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0197399&type=printable