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

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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Main Authors: Rasmussen, Simon, Allentoft, Morten Erik, Nielsen, Kasper, Orlando, Ludovic, Sikora, Martin, Sjögren, Karl-Göran, Pedersen, Anders Gorm, Schubert, Mikkel, Van Dam, Alex, Kapel, Christian Moliin Outzen, Nielsen, Henrik Bjørn, Brunak, Søren, Avetisyan, Pavel, Epimakhov, Andrey, Khalyapin, Mikhail Viktorovich, Gnuni, Artak, Kriiska, Aivar, Lasak, Irena, Metspalu, Mait, Moiseyev, Vyacheslav, Gromov, Andrei, Pokutta, Dalia, Saag, Lehti, Varul, Liivi, Yepiskoposyan, Levon, Sicheritz-Pontén, Thomas, Foley, Robert A., Lahr, Marta Mirazón, Nielsen, Rasmus, Kristiansen, Kristian, Willerslev, Eske
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Language:Inglês
Published: Cell Press 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4644222/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26496604
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2015.10.009
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