Microbial fingerprints reveal interaction between museum objects, curators, and visitors

Summary: Microbial communities reside at the interface between humans and their environment. Whether the microbiome can be leveraged to gain information on human interaction with museum objects is unclear. To investigate this, we selected objects from the Museum für Naturkunde and the Pergamonmuseum...

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Main Authors: Lukas M. Simon, Cecilia Flocco, Franziska Burkart, Anika Methner, David Henke, Luise Rauer, Christian L. Müller, Johannes Vogel, Christiane Quaisser, Jörg Overmann, Stefan Simon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-09-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004223016553