Metagenomic analysis of dental calculus in ancient Egyptian baboons

Funding

We acknowledge the Musee des Confluences (Lyon, France), especially Didier Berthet for his ongoing support and permission to sample the archaeological material. This research was carried out within the framework of the "Baboons Project" supported by the Ministere de la Culture et de la Communication (France); the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels (Belgium) and the Agence Nationale de la Recherche from the "Investissement d'Avenir" program ANR-11-LABX-0032-01 LabEx ARCHIMEDE (Montpellier, France). We wish to thank Thomas Haverkamp for discussion of preliminary data, and Elena Marinova for her help in the interpretation of the dietary analysis. ATO was funded by the Center for Evolution and Medicine Postdoctoral Fellowship at Arizona State University. We would also like to thank the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University (formerly of Philadelphia) for providing samples and in particular we would like to thank Ned Gilmore and Ted Daeschler for their assistance in sample collection. Bioinformatic analyses were performed on the Abel Cluster, owned by the University of Oslo and the Norwegian metacenter for High Performance Computing (NOTUR) and operated by the Department for Research Computing at the University Center for Information Technology Services (USIT), University of Oslo. CO was funded by Satsningsmiljo Grant Comparative Infection Biology (COMPI), Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo and the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant Project HIDDEN FOODS (G. A. 639286), Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Sciences, Spienza University of Rome. MG and OK were funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the FP7IDEAS-ERC Program (Grant 324249).