The scientists detailed their findings on 21 April 2008 online in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Verma is the current editor-in-chief of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS).
In December 2011, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, withdrew published papers claiming sufferers carried the virus.
In 2003, he, Frank Corsetti and David Pierce published evidence in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of fossilized microbiota in Cryogenian rocks, a revelation which has cast doubt on the notion of the near elimination of life during potential equatorial glaciation during that period (commonly referred to as Snowball Earth).
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The fossil skull was discovered in 2008 and described in 2009 by Per Christiansen, from the Zoological Museum in Copenhagen, and Ji H. Mazák, of the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA.