Molecular Exploration of the First-Century Tomb of the Shroud in Akeldama, Jerusalem

• Carney D. Matheson ,

  * E-mail: cmatheso@lakeheadu.ca

  Affiliations Paleo-DNA Laboratory, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada, Department of Anthropology, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

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• Kim K. Vernon,

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel, Department of Anthropology, Department of Zoology, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia

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• Arlene Lahti,

  Affiliations Paleo-DNA Laboratory, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada, Department of Biology, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada

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• Renee Fratpietro,

  Affiliation Paleo-DNA Laboratory, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada

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• Mark Spigelman,

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel, Department of Infection, University College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Shimon Gibson,

  Affiliation University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Charles L. Greenblatt,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

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• Helen D. Donoghue

  Affiliation Department of Infection, University College London, London, United Kingdom

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