About the Authors

Kirsten I. Bos

kirsten.bos@ifu.uni-tuebingen.de (KB); johannes.krause@uni-tuebingen.de (JK)

Affiliations Institute for Archeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Laboratoire de Paléoanthropologie, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

Philip Stevens

Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Kay Nieselt

Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Hendrik N. Poinar

Affiliations McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Michael DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Sharon N. DeWitte

Affiliation University of South Carolina, Departments of Anthropology and Biological Sciences, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Johannes Krause

kirsten.bos@ifu.uni-tuebingen.de (KB); johannes.krause@uni-tuebingen.de (JK)

Affiliation Institute for Archeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KIB JK KN HNP. Performed the experiments: PS JK KN. Analyzed the data: KIB KN JK. Wrote the paper: KIB JK. Provided constructive comments on the manuscript: SND HNP.