5,500-year-old skeleton yields oldest evidence yet of syphilis-related bacteria

Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...

Tropical feedback loop: Butterfly mimicry patterns evolve faster near the equator

In the early 1990s, Keith Willmott and a friend, both undergraduate students from the United Kingdom, arrived in Ecuador with ...
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New shrew species is discovered in Tibet, bringing the total number to six

A new species of shrew, Soriculus dexingensis, is discovered in Tibet, raising the number of known shrew species there to six ...
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Prehistoric genome pushes back origins of treponemal diseases in the Americas

Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum – the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...
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5,500-year-old human remains in Colombia bear the oldest evidence of syphilis bacteria, millennia before the arrival of Europeans

The temporal boundary that separated humanity from one of the most persistent and adaptable bacterial families has been ...