Climate scientists not involved in the study praised it as a robust piece of work.
Dr. Melinda A. Zeder, a zooarchaeologist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History who was not connected with the study, praised the findings.
Dr. Keith Clay, a plant ecologist at Indiana University, who was not involved with the study, praised the new work.
While Teamster officials have called the federal supervision too expensive and intrusive, the team that did the study praised the federal role.
Dr. Karen Oberhauser, a monarch ecologist at the University of Minnesota who was not involved in the study, praised the quality of the work, saying: "It's the first study and a really important study.
In an accompanying editorial in the journal, Dr. Howard Markel, director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan, who was not involved in the study, praised the thoroughness of the new research "based on unfettered access to the actual mummies".
However the study praised both primary and secondary schools for supporting the appreciation and understanding of pupils from different faiths.
Dr. Ralf Bennartz, a professor of earth and environmental sciences at Vanderbilt University who was not involved in the study, praised the new research.
Researchers not involved in the study praised its findings even as they cautioned that hope of a genetic key to the disease has been dashed before.
An editorial published alongside the study praised its "notable methodological strengths," but cautioned that physicians and pregnant women would be wrong to change their practices based on its findings.
