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2019

Journal article

Phylogeography of the second plague pandemic revealed through analysis of historical Yersinia pestis genomes

The second plague pandemic, caused by Yersinia pestis, devastated Europe and the nearby regions between the 14th and 18th centuries AD. Here we analyse human remains from ten European archaeological sites spanning this period and reconstruct 34 ancient Y. pestis genomes. Our data support an initial entry of the bacterium...

Spyrou, Maria A. ; Keller, Marcel ; Tukhbatova, Rezeda I. ; Scheib, Christiana L. ; Nelson, Elizabeth A. …
General Physics and Astronomy, General Chemistry, and General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology