Emergence of human-adapted Salmonella enterica is linked to the Neolithization 
process

Key, Felix M.; Posth, Cosimo; Esquivel Gomez, Luis Roger; Hübler, Ron; Spyrou, Maria A.; Neumann, Gunnar U.; Furtwängler, Anja; Sabin, Susanna; Burri Promerová, Marta; Wissgott, Antje; Lankapalli, Aditya Kumar; Vågene, Åshild J.; Meyer, Matthias; Nagel, Sarah; Tukhbatova, Rezeda; Khokhlov, Aleksandr; Chizhevsky, Andrey; Hansen, Svend; Belinsky, Andrey B.; Kalmykov, Alexey; Kantorovich, Anatoly R.; Maslov, Vladimir E.; Stockhammer, Philipp W.; Vai, Stefania; Zavattaro, Monica; Riga, Alessandro; Caramelli, David; Skeates, Robin; Beckett, Jessica; Gradoli, Maria Giuseppina; Steuri, Noah; Hafner, Albert; Ramstein, Marianne; Siebke, Inga; Lösch, Sandra; Erdal, Yilmaz Selim; Alikhan, Nabil-Fareed; Zhou, Zhemin; Achtman, Mark; Bos, Kirsten; Reinhold, Sabine; Haak, Wolfgang; Kühnert, Denise; Herbig, Alexander; Krause, Johannes

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Emergence of human-adapted Salmonella enterica is linked to the Neolithization process

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Key, Felix M.
Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society;

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Posth, Cosimo
Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society;

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Esquivel Gomez, Luis Roger
tide, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society;

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Hübler, Ron
Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society;

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Spyrou, Maria A.
Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society;

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Neumann, Gunnar U.
Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society;

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Sabin, Susanna
Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society;

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Burri Promerová, Marta
Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society;

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Wissgott, Antje
Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society;

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Lankapalli, Aditya Kumar
Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society;

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Vågene, Åshild J.
Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society;

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Tukhbatova, Rezeda
Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society;

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Stockhammer, Philipp W.
MHAAM, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society;

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Bos, Kirsten
CoDisEASe, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society;

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Haak, Wolfgang
Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society;

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Kühnert, Denise
tide, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society;

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Herbig, Alexander
Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society;

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Krause, Johannes
MHAAM, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society;

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Key, F. M., Posth, C., Esquivel Gomez, L. R., Hübler, R., Spyrou, M. A., Neumann, G. U., et al. (2020). Emergence of human-adapted Salmonella enterica is linked to the Neolithization process. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 4(3), 324-333. doi:10.1038/s41559-020-1106-9.

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Abstract

It has been hypothesized that the Neolithic transition towards an agricultural and pastoralist economy facilitated the emergence of human-adapted pathogens. Here, we recovered eight Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica genomes from human skeletons of transitional foragers, pastoralists and agropastoralists in western Eurasia that were up to 6,500 yr old. Despite the high genetic diversity of S. enterica, all ancient bacterial genomes clustered in a single previously uncharacterized branch that contains S. enterica adapted to multiple mammalian species. All ancient bacterial genomes from prehistoric (agro-)pastoralists fall within a part of this branch that also includes the human-specific S. enterica Paratyphi C, illustrating the evolution of a human pathogen over a period of 5,000 yr. Bacterial genomic comparisons suggest that the earlier ancient strains were not host specific, differed in pathogenic potential and experienced convergent pseudogenization that accompanied their downstream host adaptation. These observations support the concept that the emergence of human-adapted S. enterica is linked to human cultural transformations.