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- who: Maria A. Spyrou from the for the Science of Human History, Jena, GermanyUniversity of have published the Article: Phylogeography of the second plague pandemic revealed through analysis of historical Yersinia pestis genomes, in the Journal: NATURE COMMUNICATIONS NATURE COMMUNICATIONS of 18/Dec/2018
- what: Through analysis of the new strain from Laishevo (LAI009), which is phylogenetically ancestral to all second pandemic strains sequenced to date (Fig 2), the authors provide evidence for the bacterium's presence in the same region, ~2000 km northeast of the Crimean peninsula, prior to reaching southern Europe in 1347 . . .
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