• Grouping groupers in the Mediterranean: Ecological baselines revealed by ancient proteins 

      Winter, Rachel M.; de Kock, Willemien; Mackie, Meaghan; Ramsøe, Max; Desiderà, Elena; Collins, Matthew; Guidetti, Paolo; Presslee, Samantha; Alegre, Marta Munoz; Oueslati, Tarek; Muniz, Arturo Morales; Michailidis, Dimitris; van den Hurk, Youri; Taurozzi, Alberto J.; Çakirlar, Canan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Marine historical ecology provides a means to establish baselines to inform current fisheries management. Groupers (Epinephelidae) are key species for fisheries in the Mediterranean, which have been heavily overfished. ...
    • Multi-omic detection of Mycobacterium leprae in archaeological human dental calculus 

      Fotakis, Anna K.; Denham, Sean Dexter; Mackie, Meaghan; Orbegozo, Miren Iraeta; Mylopotamitaki, Dorothea; Gopalakrishnan, Shyam; Sicheritz-Pontén, Thomas; Olsen, Jesper V.; Cappellini, Enrico; Zhang, Guojie; Christophersen, Axel; Gilbert, Thomas; Vågene, Åshild J (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Mineralized dental plaque (calculus) has proven to be an excellent source of ancient biomolecules. Here we present a Mycobacterium leprae genome (6.6-fold), the causative agent of leprosy, recovered via shotgun sequencing ...