Browsing Naturhistorisk museum by Author "Austin, Rita M"

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  • Do I have something in my teeth? The trouble with genetic analyses of diet from archaeological dental calculus 
    Mann, Allison E; Fellows Yates, James A; Fagernäs, Zandra; Austin, Rita M; Nelson, Elizabeth A; Hofman, Courtney A (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
    Dental calculus and other preserved microbiome substrates are an attractive target for dietary reconstruction in past populations through a variety of physical, chemical, and molecular means. Recently, studies have attempted ...
  • Population-level assessment of atlas occipitalization in artificially modified crania from pre-Hispanic Peru 
    Pott, Laura N; Austin, Rita M; Eller, Andrea R.; Hofman, Courtney A; Sholts, Sabrina B. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
    Atlas occipitalization (AO) is a spinal anomaly, characterized by the fusion of the first cervical vertebra and occipital bone, with a complex etiology that can arise from congenital and environmental causes. AO has been ...
  • Remembering St. Louis individual—structural violence and acute bacterial infections in a historical anatomical collection 
    Austin, Rita M; Zuckerman, Molly; Honap, Tanvi P.; Lee, Hedwig; Ward, Geoff K.; Warinner, Christina; Sankaranarayanan, Krithivasan; Hofman, Courtney A. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    Abstract Incomplete documentary evidence, variable biomolecular preservation, and limited skeletal responses have hindered assessment of acute infections in the past. This study was initially developed to explore the ...
  • Shifts in gut and vaginal microbiomes are associated with cancer recurrence time in women with ovarian cancer 
    Jacobson, David; Moore, Kathleen; Gunderson, Camille; Rowland, Michelle; Austin, Rita M; Honap, Tanvi Prasad; Xu, Jiawu; Warinner, Christina; Sankaranarayanan, Krithivasan; Lewis, Cecil M. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    Many studies investigating the human microbiome-cancer interface have focused on the gut microbiome and gastrointestinal cancers. Outside of human papillomavirus driving cervical cancer, little is known about the relationship ...
  • The evolution and changing ecology of the African hominid oral microbiome 
    Fellows Yates, James A.; Velsko, Irina M.; Aron, Franziska; Posth, Cosimo; Hofman, Courtney A.; Austin, Rita M; Parker, Cody E.; Mann, Allison E.; Nägele, Kathrin; Weedman Arthur, Kathryn; Arthur, John W.; Bauer, Catherine C.; Crevecoeur, Isabelle; Cupillard, Christophe; Curtis, Matthew C.; Dalén, Love; Díaz-Zorita Bonilla, Marta; Díez Fernández-Loman, J. Carlos; Drucker, Dorothée G.; Escrivá, Elena Escribano; Francken, Michael; Gibbon, Victoria E.; González Morales, Manuel R.; Mateu, Ana Grande; Harvatit, Katerina; Henry, Amanda G.; Humphrey, Louise; Menéndez, Mario; Mihailovic, Dušan; Peresania, Marco; Moroder, Sofía Rodríguez; Roksandic, Mirjana; Rougier, Hélène; Sázelová, Sandra; Stock, Jay T.; Straus, Lawrence Guy; Svoboda, Jirí; Teßmann, Barbara; Walker, Michael J.; Power, Robert C.; Lewis, Cecil M.; Sankaranarayanan, Krithivasan; Guschanski, Katerina; Wrangham, Richard W.; Dewhirst, Floyd E.; Salazar-García, Domingo C.; Krause, Johannes; Herbig, Alexander; Warinner, Christina (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    The oral microbiome plays key roles in human biology, health, and disease, but little is known about the global diversity, variation, or evolution of this microbial community. To better understand the evolution and changing ...
  • What does it mean to be wild? Assessing human influence on the environments of nonhuman primate specimens in museum collections 
    Eller, Andrea R.; Canington, Stephanie L.; Saiyed, Sana T.; Austin, Rita M; Hofman, Courtney A.; Sholts, Sabrina B. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    Objectives Natural history collections are often thought to represent environments in a pristine natural state—free from human intervention—the so-called “wild.” In this study, we aim to assess the level of human influence ...