Early Divergent Strains of Yersinia pestis in Eurasia 5,000 Years Ago

Rasmussen, Simon; E. Allentoft, Morten; Nielsen, Kasper; Orlando, Ludovic; Sikora, Martin; Sjögren, Karl-Göran; Gorm Pedersen, Anders; Schubert, Mikkel; Van Dam, Alex; Kapel, C.M.O.; Bjørn Nielsen, Henrik; Brunak, Søren; Avetisyan, Pavel; Epimakhov, Andrey; Viktorovich Khalyapin, Mikhail; Gnuni, Artak; Крийска, Айвар; Lasak, Irena; Metspalu, Mait; Moiseyev, Vyacheslav; Gromov, Andrei; Pokutta, Dalia; Saag, Lehti; Varul, Liivi; Yepiskoposyan, Levon; Sicheritz‐Pontén, Thomas; A. Foley, Robert; Mìrazón Lahr, Marta; Nielsen, Rasmus; Kristiansen, Kristian; Willerslev, Eske

doi:10.1016/j.cell.2015.10.009

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Early Divergent Strains of Yersinia pestis in Eurasia 5,000 Years Ago

Published in Cell • Oct 1, 2015

Authors:

Simon Rasmussen

Morten E. Allentoft

Kasper Nielsen

Abstract

The bacteria Yersinia pestis is the etiological agent of plague and has caused human pandemics with millions of deaths in historic times. How and when it originated remains contentious. Here, we report the oldest direct evidence of Yersinia pestis identified by ancient DNA in human teeth from Asia a...

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Yersinia pestis

Plague (disease)

Biology

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