A draft genome of Yersinia pestis from victims of the Black Death
A draft genome of Yersinia pestis from victims of the Black Death
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Bos, Kirsten I. , Schuenemann, Verena J. , Golding, G. Brian , Burbano, Hernán A. , Waglechner, Nicholas , Coombes, Brian K. , McPhee, Joseph B. , DeWitte, Sharon N. , Meyer, Matthias , Schmedes, Sarah , Wood, James , Earn, David J. D. , Herring, D. Ann , Bauer, Peter , Poinar, Hendrik N. and Krause, Johannes
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London: Nature Publishing Group UK
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Reconstruction of Black Death genome
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 the s...
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A draft genome of Yersinia pestis from victims of the Black Death
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TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_3690193
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_3690193
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0028-0836
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1476-4687
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10.1038/nature10549
