A 14^th century CE Brucella melitensis genome and the recent expansion of the Western Mediterranean clade

• George S. Long ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: George S. Long, Jessica Hider

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: longg2@mcmaster.ca (GSL); hiderjessica@gmail.com (JH); poinarh@mcmaster.ca (HNP)

  Affiliations Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, Departments of Anthropology and Biochemistry, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9088-9848

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• Jessica Hider ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: George S. Long, Jessica Hider

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: longg2@mcmaster.ca (GSL); hiderjessica@gmail.com (JH); poinarh@mcmaster.ca (HNP)

  Affiliations McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, Departments of Anthropology and Biochemistry, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

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• Ana T. Duggan,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, Departments of Anthropology and Biochemistry, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

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• Jennifer Klunk,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, Departments of Anthropology and Biochemistry, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Daicel Arbor Biosciences, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

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• Katherine Eaton,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliations McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, Departments of Anthropology and Biochemistry, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

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• Emil Karpinski,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, Departments of Anthropology and Biochemistry, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

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• Valentina Giuffra,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Paleopathology, Department of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

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• Luca Ventura,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences, University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy, Division of Pathology, San Salvatore Hospital, Coppito, Italy

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• Tracy L. Prowse,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

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• Antonio Fornaciari,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Paleopathology, Department of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

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• Gino Fornaciari,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Maria Luisa di Borbone Academy, Viareggio, Italy

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• Edward C. Holmes,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Sydney Institute for Infectious Diseases, School of Medical Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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• G. Brian Golding,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

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• Hendrik N. Poinar

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: longg2@mcmaster.ca (GSL); hiderjessica@gmail.com (JH); poinarh@mcmaster.ca (HNP)

  Affiliations McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, Departments of Anthropology and Biochemistry, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, CIFAR Humans and the Microbiome Program, Toronto, Canada

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