We used accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) 14 C‐dated sediments of the Holocene basal supratidal flat to upper tidal flat facies in 11 cores on the southern Yangtze delta plain to reconstruct relative sea levels of 8.5–8.0 cal ka BP. Three cores were further AMS 14 C dated and used to examine the evolution of sedimentary geomorphological environments in response to the rapid sea‐level rise during the early to mid‐Holocene. Re...

Bartonella quintana is a bacterium that causes a broad spectrum of diseases in humans including trench fever. Humans were previously considered to be the primary, if not the only, reservoir hosts for B. quintana . To identify the animal reservoir and extend our understanding of the ecological and evolutionary history of B. quintana , we examined blood samples from macaques and performed multilocus sequence typing ( MLST ) anal...