2020
Karen Giffin, Aditya Kumar Lankapalli, Susanna Sabin, Maria A. Spyrou, Cosimo Posth, Justina Kozakaitė, Ronny Friedrich, Žydrūnė Miliauskienė, Rimantas Jankauskas, Alexander Herbig, Kirsten I. Bos. “A treponemal genome from an historic plague victim supports a recent emergence of yaws and its presence in 15th century Europe.” Scientific Reports. 2020 June 11, doi:10.1038/s41598-020-66012-x.
Elizabeth A. Nelson, Jane E. Buikstra, Alexander Herbig, Tiffiny A.Tung, Kirsten I. Bos. “Advances in the molecular detection of tuberculosis in pre-contact Andean South America.” International Journal of Paleopathology. 2020 January 20, doi:10.1016/j.ijpp.2019.12.006.
2019
Maria A Spyrou, Marcel Keller, Rezeda I Tukhbatova, Christiana L Scheib, Elizabeth A Nelson, Aida Andrades Valtueña, Gunnar U Neumann, Don Walker, Amelie Alterauge, Niamh Carty, Craig Cessford, Hermann Fetz, Michaël Gourvennec, Robert Hartle, Michael Henderson, Kristin von Heyking, Sarah A Inskip, Sacha Kacki, Felix M Key, Elizabeth L Knox, Christian Later, Prishita Maheshwari-Aplin, Joris Peters, John E Robb, Jürgen Schreiber, Toomas Kivisild, Dominique Castex, Sandra Lösch, Michaela Harbeck, Alexander Herbig, Kirsten I Bos, Johannes Krause. “Phylogeography of the second plague pandemic revealed through analysis of historical Yersinia pestis genomes.” Nature Communications. 10(4470), doi:10.1038/s41467-019-12154-0.
Bos KI, Kühnert D, Herbig A, Esquivel-Gomez LR, Valtueña AA, Barquera R, Giffin K, Kumar Lankapalli A, Nelson EA, Sabin S, Spyrou MA, Krause J. “Paleomicrobiology: Diagnosis and Evolution of Ancient Pathogens.” Annu Rev Microbiol. 2019 Jul 5. doi:10.1146/annurev-micro-090817-062436.
Spyrou MA, Bos KI, Herbig A, Krause J. “Ancient pathogen genomics as an emerging tool for infectious disease research.” Nat Rev Genet. 2019 Jun;20(6):323-340. doi:10.1038/s41576-019-0119-1. Review.
Keller M, Spyrou MA, Scheib CL, Neumann GU, Kröpelin A, Haas-Gebhard B, Päffgen B, Haberstroh J, Ribera I Lacomba A, Raynaud C, Cessford C, Durand R, Stadler P, Nägele K, Bates JS, Trautmann B, Inskip SA, Peters J, Robb JE, Kivisild T, Castex D, McCormick M, Bos KI, Harbeck M, Herbig A, Krause J. “Ancient Yersinia pestis genomes from across Western Europe reveal early diversification during the First Pandemic (541-750).” Proc Natl Acad Sci. 2019 Jun 18;116(25):12363-12372. doi:10.1073/pnas.1820447116. Epub 2019 Jun 4.
2018
Bos KI. TB’s Chinese travels. Nat Ecol Evol. 2018 Dec;2(12):1842-1843. doi:10.1038/s41559-018-0732-y.
Knauf S, Gogarten JF, Schuenemann VJ, De Nys HM, Düx A, Strouhal M, Mikalová L, Bos KI, Armstrong R, Batamuzi EK, Chuma IS, Davoust B, Diatta G, Fyumagwa RD, Kazwala RR, Keyyu JD, Lejora IAV, Levasseur A, Liu H, Mayhew MA, Mediannikov O, Raoult D, Wittig RM, Roos C, Leendertz FH, Šmajs D, Nieselt K, Krause J, Calvignac-Spencer S. “Nonhuman primates across sub-Saharan Africa are infected with the yaws bacterium Treponema pallidum subsp. pertenue.” Emerg Microbes Infect. 2018 Sep 19;7(1):157. doi:10.1038/s41426-018-0156-4.
Mann AE, Sabin S, Ziesemer K, Vågene ÅJ, Schroeder H, Ozga AT, Sankaranarayanan K, Hofman CA, Fellows Yates JA, Salazar-García DC, Frohlich B, Aldenderfer M, Hoogland M, Read C, Milner GR, Stone AC, Lewis CM Jr, Krause J, Hofman C, Bos KI, Warinner C. “Differential preservation of endogenous human and microbial DNA in dental calculus and dentin.” Sci Rep. 2018 Jun 29;8(1):9822. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-28091-9.
Schuenemann VJ, Kumar Lankapalli A, Barquera R, Nelson EA, Iraíz Hernández D, Acuña Alonzo V, Bos KI, Márquez Morfín L, Herbig A, Krause J. “Historic Treponema pallidum genomes from Colonial Mexico retrieved from archaeological remains.” PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2018 Jun 21;12(6):e0006447. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0006447. eCollection 2018 Jun.
Maria A. Spyrou, Rezeda I. Tukhbatova, Chuan-Chao Wang, Aida Andrades Valtueña, Aditya K. Lankapalli, Vitaly V. Kondrashin, Victor A. Tsybin, Aleksandr Khokhlov, Denise Kühnert, Alexander Herbig, Kirsten I. Bos and Johannes Krause. “Analysis of 3800-year-old Yersinia pestis genomes suggests Bronze Age origin for bubonic plague.” Nature Communications, 9:2234, doi:10.1038/s41467-018-04550-9.
Åshild J. Vågene, Alexander Herbig, Michael G. Campana, Nelly M. Robles García, Christina Warinner, Susanna Sabin, Maria A. Spyrou, Aida Andrades Valtueña, Daniel Huson, Noreen Tuross, Kirsten I. Bos and Johannes Krause. “Salmonella enterica genomes from victims of a major sixteenth-century epidemic in Mexico.” Nature Ecology & Evolution, doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0446-6.
2017
Andrades Valtueña A, Mittnik A, Key FM, Haak W, Allmäe R, Belinskij A, Daubaras M, Feldman M, Jankauskas R, Janković I, Massy K, Novak M, Pfrengle S, Reinhold S, Šlaus M, Spyrou MA, Szécsényi-Nagy A, Tõrv M, Hansen S, Bos KI, Stockhammer PW, Herbig A, Krause J. “The Stone Age Plague and Its Persistence in Eurasia.” Curr Biol. 2017 Dec 4;27(23):3683-3691.e8. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2017.10.025. Epub 2017 Nov 22.
Felix M. Key, Cosimo Posth, Johannes Krause, Alexander Herbig, and Kirsten I. Bos. “Mining metagenomic datasets for ancient DNA: recommended protocols for authentication“. Trends in Genetics, doi:10.1016/j.tig.2017.05.005.
2016
Alexander Immel, Adeline Le Cabec, Marion Bonazzi, Alexander Herbig, Heiko Temming, Verena J. Schuenemann, Kirsten I. Bos, et. al. “Effect of X-ray imaging on ancient DNA in sub-fossil bones – recommendations for safe imaging“. Scientific Reports, 6:32969, doi:10.1038/srep32969.
Natasha Arora, Verena J. Schuenemann, Günter Jäger, Alexander Peltzer, Alexander Seitz, Alexander Herbig, Michal Strouhal, Linda Grillová, Leonor Sánchez-Busó, Denise Kühnert, Kirsten I. Bos, et al. “Origin of modern syphilis and emergence of a contemporary pandemic cluster“. Nature Microbiology, 2:16245, doi:10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.245.
Maria A. Spyrou, Rezeda I. Tukhbatova, Michal Feldman, Joanna Drath, Sacha Kacki, Julia Beltrán de Heredia, Susanne Arnold, Airat G. Sitdikov, Dominique Castex, Joachim Wahl, Ilgizar R. Gazimzyanov, Danis K. Nurgaliev, Alexander Herbig*, Kirsten I. Bos*, and Johannes Krause*. “Historical Y. pestis Genomes Reveal the European Black Death as the Source of Ancient and Modern Plague Pandemics” Cell Host & Microbe, 19(6): 874-881 (8 June 2016) doi:10.1016/j.chom.2016.05.012
Kirsten I. Bos, Alexander Herbig, Jason Sahl, Nicholas Waglechner, Mathieu Fourment, Stephen A. Forrest, Jennifer Klunk, Verena J. Schuenemann, Debi Poinar, Melanie Kuch, G. Brian Golding, Olivier Dutour, Paul Keim, David M. Wagner, Edward C. Holmes, Johannes Krause. “Eighteenth century Yersinia pestis genomes reveal the long-term persistence of an historical plague focus” eLife (21 January 2016) doi:10.7554/eLife.12994
2015
Kirsten I. Bos*, Günter Jäger*, Verena J. Schuenemann, Åshild J. Vågene, Maria A. Spyrou, Alexander Herbig, Kay Nieselt, and Johannes Krause. “Parallel detection of ancient pathogens via array-based DNA capture” Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 370(1660) (19 January 2015) doi:10.1098/rstb.2013.0375
Kelly M. Harkins, Jane E. Buikstra, Tessa Campbell, Kirsten I. Bos, Eric D. Johnson, Johannes Krause, and Anne C. Stone. “Screening ancient tuberculosis with qPCR: challenges and opportunities” Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 370(1660) (19 January 2015), doi:10.1098/rstb.2013.0622
2014
Kirsten I. Bos*ⱡ, Kelly M. Harkins*, Alexander Herbig*, Mireia Coscolla*, Nico Weber, Iñaki Comas, Stephen A. Forrest, Josephine M. Bryant, Simon R. Harris, Verena J. Schuenemann, Tessa J. Campbell, Kerttu Majander, Alicia K. Wilbur, Ricardo A. Guichon, Dawnie L. Wolfe Steadman, Della Collins Cook, Stefan Niemann, Marcel A. Behr, Martin Zumarraga, Ricardo Bastida, Daniel Huson, Kay Nieselt, Douglas Young, Julian Parkhill, Jane E. Buikstra, Sebastien Gagneux, Anne C. Stone ⱡ, and Johannes Krause ⱡ. “Pre-Columbian Mycobacterial Genomes Reveal Seals as a Source of New World Human Tuberculosis.” [pdf] Nature 514(7523):494–497 (23 October 2014). doi:10.1038/nature13591
Iosif Lazaridis, Nick Patterson, Alissa Mittnik, Gabriel Renaud, Swapan Mallick, Karola Kirsanow, Peter H. Sudmant, Joshua G. Schraiber, Sergi Castellano, Mark Lipson, Bonnie Berger, Christos Economou, Ruth Bollongino, Qiaomei Fu, Kirsten I. Bos, …, [Show full author list], Svante Pääbo, Janet Kelso, David Reich, and Johannes Krause. “Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans.” Nature: 513(7518):409–413. (18 September 2014), doi:10.1038/nature13673
Alison M. Devault, G. Brian Golding, Nicholas Waglechner, Jacob M. Enk, Melanie Kuch, Joseph H. Tien, Mang Shi, David N. Fisman, Anna N. Dhody, Stephen Forrest, Kirsten I. Bos, David J.D. Earn, Edward C. Holmes, Hendrik N. Poinar. “Second-Pandemic Strain of Vibrio cholerae from the Philadelphia Cholera Outbreak of 1849.” New England Journal of Medicine 370:334-340, doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1308663
2013
Verena J Schuenemann*, Pushpendra Singh*, Thomas A Mendum, Ben Krause-Kyora, Günter Jäger, Kirsten I Bos, Alexander Herbig, Christos Economou, Andrej Benjak, Philippe Busso, Almut Nebel, Jesper L Boldsen, Anna Kjellström, Huihai Wu, Graham R Stewart, G Michael Taylor, Peter Bauer, Oona Y-C Lee, Houdini H T Wu, David E Minnikin, Gurdyal S Besra, Katie Tucker, Simon Roffey, Samba O Sow, Stewart T Cole, Kay Nieselt, Johannes Krause. “Genome-wide comparison of medieval and modern Mycobacterium leprae.” [pdf] Science 341(6142):179–83, doi:10.1126/science.1238286.
Qiaomei Fu*, Alissa Mittnik*, Philip L F Johnson, Kirsten Bos, Martina Lari, Ruth Bollongino, Chengkai Sun, Liane Giemsch, Ralf Schmitz, Joachim Burger, Anna Maria Ronchitelli, Fabio Martini, Renata G Cremonesi, Jiří Svoboda, Peter Bauer, David Caramelli, Sergi Castellano, David Reich, Svante Pääbo, Johannes Krause. “A revised timescale for human evolution based on ancient mitochondrial genomes.” [pdf] Current Biology 23(7):553–9, doi:10.1016/j.cub.2013.02.044.
2012
Kirsten I Bos, Philip Stevens, Kay Nieselt, Hendrik N Poinar, Sharon N Dewitte, Johannes Krause. “Yersinia pestis: New evidence for an old infection.” [pdf] PLoS One 7(11):e49803. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0049803
2011
Kirsten I. Bos*, Verena J. Schuenemann*, G. Brian Golding, Hernán A. Burbano, Nicholas Waglechner, Brian K. Coombes, Joseph B. McPhee, Sharon N. DeWitte, Matthias Meyer, Sarah Schmedes, James Wood, David J. D. Earn, D. Ann Herring, Peter Bauer, Hendrik N. Poinar, Johannes Krause. “A draft genome of Yersinia pestis from victims of the Black Death”. Nature 478: 506–510. doi:10.1038/nature10549
V. Schuenemann*, K. Bos*, S. DeWitte, S. Schmedes, J. Jamieson, A. Mittnik, S. Forrest, B. Coombes, J. Wood, D. Earn, W. White, J. Krause, H. Poinar. “Targeted enrichment of ancient pathogens yielding the pPCP1 plasmid of Yersinia pestis from victims of the Black Death.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, doi:10.1073/pnas.1105107108.
2010
J. Okello, L. Rodriguez, D. Poinar, K. Bos, A. Okwi, G. Bimenya, N. Sewankambo, K. Henry, M. Kuch, H. Poinar. “Quantitative Assessment of the Sensitivity of Various Commercial Reverse Transcriptases Based on Armored HIV RNA“. PLoS One, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0013931
Linda Y. Rutledge, Kirsten I. Bos, Robert J. Pearce, Bradley N. White. Genetic and morphometric analysis of sixteenth century Canis skull fragments: implications for historic eastern and gray wolf distribution in North America. Conservation Genetics, 11(4): 1273-1281.
2009
Hendrik Poinar, Stuart Fiedel, Christine E. King, Alison M. Devault, Kirsti Bos, Melanie Kuch, Regis Debruyne. Comment on “DNA from Pre-Clovis Human Coprolites in Oregon, North America”. Science: Volume 325 Issue 5937, p.148.
2008
Regis Debruyne, Genevieve Chu, Christine E. King, Alison Devault, Kirsti Bos, Melanie Kuch, Regis Debruyne. Bos, Melanie Kuch, Carsten Schwarz, Paul Szpak, Darren R. Gröcke, Paul Matheus, Grant Zazula, Dale Guthrie, Duane Froese, Bernard Buigues, Christian de Marliave, Clare Flemming, Debi Poinar, Daniel Fisher, John Southon, Alexei N. Tikhonov, Ross D.E. MacPhee and Hendrik N. Poinar. Out of America: Ancient DNA Evidence for a New World Origin of Late Quaternary Woolly Mammoths. Current Biology, 18(17), pp. 1320-1326.