Author Correction: Ancient DNA of Guinea Pigs (Cavia spp.) Indicates a Probable New Center of Domestication and Pathways of Global Distribution

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This Article contains errors. The Acknowledgements section in this Article is incomplete. "We would like to thank Matthew Smith for providing the Green Castle, Jamaica specimen; Kitty Emery and the Environmental Archaeology Program Laboratory at the Florida Museum of Natural History for facilitating access to guinea pig specimens from Finca Valencia, Puerto Rico (Catalog #0547); William Keegan and Corinne Hofman for analysis of specimens from Giraudy, Saint Lucia; Daniel S. Sandweiss for permission to analyze the Lo Demás specimens housed at the Florida Museum of Natural History and site information; Ana Maria Boada for providing samples from El Venado, Colombia; and Martha Zierden (on behalf of Charleston Museum) and Elizabeth Reitz for providing the Charleston sample, site information and comments on the manuscript. Kuelap samples were selected and exported legally according to the Ministry of Culture of Peru Resolución Viceministerial no. 095-2015-VMPCIC-MC (August 2015). We thank Susan Duser for assistance in creating Figs. 1A and 2. We acknowledge Peter Stahl for his review of the manuscript prior to publication.

The immunogenetic impact of European colonization in the Americas

“…Archaeological evidence suggests that the transition to farming practices evolved regionally and fluidly, with some populations alternating between hunting-gathering and farming through time (Dillehay, 2011). Camelids and guinea pigs were domesticated around 6-8 ka ago and 11-13 ka ago, respectively, though there were no known major diseasecausing zoonotic pathogens that may have been transmitted humans from any of these species (Lord et al, 2020;Diaz-Maroto et al, 2021). Furthermore, in many population-dense regions across the Americas, urban structures of Indigenous people were highly organized and included well-developed water storage and distribution systems, possibly aiding in better sanitation and reducing microbial spread (Patterson and Runge, 2002).…”