A seventeenth-century Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome supports a Neolithic emergence of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
Susanna J. Sabin, Alexander Herbig, Åshild J. Vågene, Torbjörn Ahlström, Gracijela Božović, Caroline Arcini, Denise Kühnert, Kirsten I. Bos
The paper analyzes a 17th-century Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome to estimate the origin of the MTBC, finding a Neolithic emergence around 3683 years before present.
Genome biology · Aug 10, 2020Peer-reviewedGenomics