Frederik Valeur Seersholm

The paper identifies a plasmid, pTP33, unique to Second Pandemic Yersinia pestis strains, which may have increased transmission and mortality during that pandemic.

This study identifies the oldest known plague strains in Lake Baikal hunter-gatherers 5500 years ago, showing early outbreaks were lethal and challenged the idea that agriculture was necessary for plague epidemics.

The paper maps ancient pathogens in Eurasia, showing zoonotic diseases emerged with livestock domestication and spread with pastoralist migrations.

This study uses genetic analysis of ancient seal samples to show that southern elephant seals recolonized the Southern Ocean from multiple glacial refugia during postglacial periods.

The paper uses ancient DNA and strontium isotope analyses to show a deep east-west divergence in steppe ancestry in Southern Europe, supporting specific linguistic divergence models for Indo-European languages.

This paper uses ancient genomes to trace the spread of Germanic languages in Europe, identifying a Baltic origin and migration patterns that challenge traditional timelines.