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3,500 years of sheeppox virus evolution inferred from archaeological and codicological genomes

2026-02-24

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Sheeppox virus (SPPV) is a major livestock pathogen causing economic hardship through reduced production and death of vulnerable sheep, with written descriptions of sheeppox-like disease recorded since antiquity. We report 21 novel ancient SPPV genomes spanning the Eurasian steppe Bronze Age (∼1,700 BCE) to the Early Modern period in Western Europe, including multiple genomes obtained from medieval parchment. We e...

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Literature Corpus work: b8a83ee5-e078-5045-9229-6157e427e4d2
DOI: 10.64898/2026.02.23.707469

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