About the Authors

Anna Juras

ajuras.anthropology@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poznan, Poland

Miroslawa Dabert

Affiliation Molecular Biology Techniques Laboratory, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poznan, Poland

Alena Kushniarevich

Affiliation Evolutionary Biology Group, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia

Helena Malmström

Affiliations Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, Department of Evolutionary Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Maanasa Raghavan

Affiliation Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Jakub Z. Kosicki

Affiliation Institute of Environmental Biology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poznan, Poland

Ene Metspalu

Affiliations Evolutionary Biology Group, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia, Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

Eske Willerslev

Affiliation Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Janusz Piontek

Affiliation Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poznan, Poland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AJ JP EW HM MD. Performed the experiments: AJ MR. Analyzed the data: AJ EM AK JZK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AJ MD EW. Wrote the paper: AJ AK MR HM JZK.