The dental calculus metabolome in modern and historic samples
<h4>Introduction</h4> <p>Dental calculus is a mineralized microbial dental plaque biofilm that forms throughout life by precipitation of salivary calcium salts. Successive cycles of dental plaque growth and calcification make it an unusually wellpreserved, long-term record of host...
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Springer
2017
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