A draft genome of Yersinia pestis from victims of the Black Death

I. Bos, Kirsten; J. Schuenemann, Verena; Brian Golding, G.; A. Burbano, Hernán; Waglechner, Nicholas; K. Coombes, Brian; B. McPhee, Joseph; N. DeWitte, Sharon; Meyer, Matthias; E. Schmedes, Sarah; W. Wood, James; J. D. Earn, David; Ann Herring, D.; Bauer, Peter; N. Poinar, Hendrik; Krause, Johannes

doi:10.1038/nature10549

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A draft genome of Yersinia pestis from victims of the Black Death

Published in Nature • Oct 11, 2011

Authors:

Kirsten I. Bos

Verena J. Schuenemann

G. Brian Golding

Abstract

The latest DNA recovery and sequencing technologies have been used to reconstruct the genome of the Yersinia pestis bacterium responsible for the Black Death pandemic of bubonic plague that spread across Europe in the fourteenth century. The genome was pieced together from total DNA extracted from t...

Subject

Yersinia pestis

Genome

Biology

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