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Yersinia pestis: new evidence for an old infection.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Bos Kirsten I, Stevens Philip, Nieselt Kay, Poinar Hendrik N, Dewitte Sharon N, Krause Johannes
Abstract excerpt
The successful reconstruction of an ancient bacterial genome from archaeological material presents an important methodological advancement for infectious disease research. The reliability of evolutionary histories inferred by the incorporation of ancient data, however, are highly contingent upon the level of genetic diversity represented in modern genomic sequences that are publicly accessible, and the paucity of...
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