My initial reaction to this is extreme scepticism, but intriguing! https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0446-6 …https://twitter.com/AdrienneLaF/status/953019306840903680 …
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Didn’t intend to impugne your work - the plague of Athens paper just used PCR to amplify short fragments but then misinterpreted the relatedness to typhoid.
I read this multiple times and did some secondary (meta) analyses - my skepticism has turned to enthusiasm. I think it's an interesting study, with well-supported conclusions (in the article - NOT the news!).
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Yes. Good also that the data shows evidence of DNA damage. Not likely modern free living.
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Agreed, although that *could* have come later (e.g. you see DNA damage in soil bacteria from ancient teeth too). I did not look too closely at their phylogenetic claims (Fig. 3), the description of which had me a little puzzled...
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