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| Historical Y. pestis genomes reveal the European Black Death as the source of ancient and modern plague pandemics MA Spyrou, RI Tukhbatova, M Feldman, J Drath, S Kacki, JB de Heredia, ... Cell host & microbe 19 (6), 874-881, 2016 | 284 | 2016 |
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| A High-Coverage Yersinia pestis Genome from a Sixth-Century Justinianic Plague Victim M Feldman, M Harbeck, M Keller, MA Spyrou, A Rott, B Trautmann, ... Molecular biology and evolution 33 (11), 2911-2923, 2016 | 178 | 2016 |
| The stone age plague and its persistence in Eurasia A Andrades Valtueña, A Mittnik, FM Key, W Haak, R Allmäe, A Belinskij, ... Current biology 27 (23), 3683-3691, 2017 | 147 | 2017 |
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| A genome sequence from a modern human skull over 45,000 years old from Zlatý kůň in Czechia K Prüfer, C Posth, H Yu, A Stoessel, MA Spyrou, T Deviese, M Mattonai, ... Nature ecology & evolution 5 (6), 820-825, 2021 | 118 | 2021 |
| Paleolithic to Bronze Age Siberians reveal connections with first Americans and across Eurasia H Yu, MA Spyrou, M Karapetian, S Shnaider, R Radzevičiūtė, K Nägele, ... Cell 181 (6), 1232-1245. e20, 2020 | 114 | 2020 |
| Emergence of human-adapted Salmonella enterica is linked to the Neolithization process FM Key, C Posth, LR Esquivel-Gomez, R Hübler, MA Spyrou, ... Nature ecology & evolution 4 (3), 324-333, 2020 | 107 | 2020 |
| The source of the Black Death in fourteenth-century central Eurasia MA Spyrou, L Musralina, GA Gnecchi Ruscone, A Kocher, PG Borbone, ... Nature 606 (7915), 718-724, 2022 | 103 | 2022 |
| Dynamic changes in genomic and social structures in third millennium BCE central Europe L Papac, M Ernée, M Dobeš, M Langová, AB Rohrlach, F Aron, ... Science Advances 7 (35), eabi6941, 2021 | 102 | 2021 |
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| Ten millennia of hepatitis B virus evolution A Kocher, L Papac, R Barquera, FM Key, MA Spyrou, R Hübler, ... Science 374 (6564), 182-188, 2021 | 82 | 2021 |
| Stone Age Yersinia pestis genomes shed light on the early evolution, diversity, and ecology of plague A Andrades Valtueña, GU Neumann, MA Spyrou, L Musralina, F Aron, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119 (17), e2116722119, 2022 | 71 | 2022 |
| Paleomicrobiology: diagnosis and evolution of ancient pathogens KI Bos, D Kühnert, A Herbig, LR Esquivel-Gomez, A Andrades Valtueña, ... Annual Review of Microbiology 73 (1), 639-666, 2019 | 66 | 2019 |
| The origin and legacy of the Etruscans through a 2000-year archeogenomic time transect C Posth, V Zaro, MA Spyrou, S Vai, GA Gnecchi-Ruscone, A Modi, ... Science Advances 7 (39), eabi7673, 2021 | 57 | 2021 |
| A treponemal genome from an historic plague victim supports a recent emergence of yaws and its presence in 15th century Europe K Giffin, AK Lankapalli, S Sabin, MA Spyrou, C Posth, J Kozakaitė, ... Scientific Reports 10 (1), 9499, 2020 | 56 | 2020 |
