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The dental calculus metabolome in modern and historic samples

2017-05-09

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<h4>Introduction</h4> Dental calculus is a mineralized microbial dental plaque biofilm that forms throughout life by precipitation of salivary calcium salts. Successive cycles of dental plaque growth and calcification make it an unusually well-preserved, long-term record of host-microbial interaction in the archaeological record. Recent studies have confirmed the survival of authentic ancient DNA and proteins wit...

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b27973ab-6641-59f2-9fdd-ad3a9a47a077
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10.1101/136176
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