Concepts of macro- and microevolution as related to the problem of origin and global expansion of the plague pathogen Yersinia pestis

Biology Bulletin

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 333-338

  Suntsov, V V ^a,c   Suntsova, N I ^b,c  

^a SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION   (Russian Federation)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c Russian Vietnamese Science and Technological Tropical Center   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARMOTA; MARMOTA SIBIRICA; OCHOTONIDAE; OROPSYLLA; RATTUS; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 47649118509     PISSN: 10623590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1134/S1062359008040018     Document Type: Review

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