G C A T T A C G G C A T genes Article Assessing Metagenomic Signals Recovered from Lyuba, a 42,000-Year-Old Permafrost-Preserved Woolly Mammoth Calf Giada Ferrari 1,2,* ID , Heidi E. L. Lischer 3,4, Judith Neukamm 1,5 ID , Enrique Rayo 1, Nicole Borel 6, Andreas Pospischil 6, Frank Rühli 1, Abigail S. Bouwman 1 and Michael G. Campana 1,7,* ID 1 Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland;
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[email protected] (M.G.C.); Tel.: +47-22-85-50-65 (G.F.); +1-202-633-4183 (M.G.C.) Received: 2 August 2018; Accepted: 30 August 2018; Published: 31 August 2018 Abstract: The reconstruction of ancient metagenomes from archaeological material, and their implication in human health and evolution, is one of the most recent advances in paleomicrobiological studies.