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Bronze Age <i>Yersinia pestis</i> genome from sheep sheds light on hosts and evolution of a prehistoric plague lineage

2025-02-07

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<h4>Summary</h4> Most human pathogens are of zoonotic origin. Many emerged during prehistory, coinciding with domestication providing more opportunities for spillover from original host species. However, we lack direct evidence linking past animal reservoirs and human infections. Here we present a Yersinia pestis genome recovered from a 3rd millennium BCE domesticated sheep from the Eurasian Steppe belonging to...

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Literature Corpus work: 7165305b-61e0-5308-97d0-848a42db05b9
DOI: 10.1101/2025.02.07.637078

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