About the Authors

Michaela Harbeck

M.Harbeck@lrz.uni-muenchen.de (MH); holger1scholz@bundeswehr.org (HCS); bramanti@uni-mainz.de (BB)

Affiliation State Collection for Anthropology and Palaeoanatomy, Munich, Germany

Lisa Seifert

Affiliation Department Biology I, Anthropology and Human Genetics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Martinsried, Germany

Stephanie Hänsch

Affiliations Institute for Anthropology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

David M. Wagner

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Dawn Birdsell

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Katy L. Parise

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Ingrid Wiechmann

Affiliation Institute of Palaeoanatomy, Domestication Research and the History of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Veterinary Sciences, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Gisela Grupe

Affiliations State Collection for Anthropology and Palaeoanatomy, Munich, Germany, Department Biology I, Anthropology and Human Genetics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Martinsried, Germany

Astrid Thomas

Affiliation Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany

Paul Keim

Affiliation Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Lothar Zöller

Affiliation Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany

Barbara Bramanti

M.Harbeck@lrz.uni-muenchen.de (MH); holger1scholz@bundeswehr.org (HCS); bramanti@uni-mainz.de (BB)

Affiliations Institute for Anthropology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Julia M. Riehm

Affiliation Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany

Holger C. Scholz

M.Harbeck@lrz.uni-muenchen.de (MH); holger1scholz@bundeswehr.org (HCS); bramanti@uni-mainz.de (BB)

Affiliation Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MH IW JMR HCS BB DMW. Performed the experiments: DB LS SH KLP AT. Analyzed the data: MH LS SH IW DB BB JMR HCS DMW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MH IW GG PK LZ BB HCS. Wrote the paper: MH DMW JMR HCS. Supervised the work and gave conceptual advice: LZ PK GG DMW. Discussed the results and commented at the manuscript at all stages: LS SH IW DMW.