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SUBMITTER: Maixner F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4775254 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20160101 6269
The stomach bacterium Helicobacter pylori is one of the most prevalent human pathogens. It has dispersed globally with its human host, resulting in a distinct phylogeographic pattern that can be used to reconstruct both recent and ancient human migrations. The extant European population of H. pylori is known to be a hybrid between Asian and African bacteria, but there exist different hypotheses about when and where the hybridization took place, reflecting the complex demographic history of Europ ...[more]