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

Nature

Volumn 478, Issue 7370, 2011, Pages 506-510

  Bos, Kirsten I ^a   Schuenemann, Verena J ^b   Golding, G Brian ^c   Burbano, Hernãn A ^d   Waglechner, Nicholas ^e   Coombes, Brian K ^e   McPhee, Joseph B ^e   Dewitte, Sharon N ^f   Meyer, Matthias ^d   Schmedes, Sarah ^g   Wood, James ^h   Earn, David J D ^e,i   Herring, D Ann ^c   Bauer, Peter ^b   Poinar, Hendrik N ^a,c,e   Krause, Johannes ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^e MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^h PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MORTALITY; PHYLOGENETICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VIRULENCE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; EPIDEMIC; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGES; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM; VICTIM; YERSINIA PESTIS;

CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CONTIG MAPPING; DENTAL PULP; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; LONDON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLAGUE; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ENGLAND; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 80054987989     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10549     Document Type: Article

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