The Iceman's Gut Microbes Shed Light on Ancient Human Geography (1 of 3) (IMAGE)

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The Iceman's Gut Microbes Shed Light on Ancient Human Geography (1 of 3)

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The Iceman is shown. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 8, 2016 issue of <i>Science</i>, published by AAAS. The paper, by F. Maixner at European Academy of Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC) research in Bolzano, Italy, and colleagues was titled, "The 5300-year-old <i>Helicobacter pylori</i> genome of the Iceman."

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