Chimpanzee microbiome variation is like ours
A new paper by Andrew Moeller and colleagues surveys the variation in species composition of gut microbiomes in the chimpanzees from Gombe, Tanzania Moeller:...
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Mailbag: Science coverage of Denisova news
Dear Dr. Hawks,
HLA class-I loci in Neandertals and Denisova
With draft sequences of genomes from several Neandertals and from Denisova, we can begin to investigate known human variations that affect phenotypes. In pra...
Ancient genomes giving up their secrets
Last week, Nature ran a story by Ewen Callaway Callaway:Neandertal:2011 that hits the highlights of research on ancient genomes this year: “Ancient DNA revea...
The immune systems of archaic humans
I’ve just submitted an abstract for a conference in the fall, with the title, “Immunogenetics of archaic humans.”
Divergent MHC alleles in domesticated sheep
I know, what an exciting headline!