Ancient Plague Victims (IMAGE)

SMBE Journals (Molecular Biology and Evolution and Genome Biology and Evolution)

Ancient Plague Victims

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Skulls of both plague victims buried together in one grave at the Altenerding cemetery. Right: Individual 1175 (female, 25-30 years old) left: individual 1176, (male, 20 to 25 years old). The Yersinia pestis genome was extracted from individual 1175.

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State Collection of Anthropology and Palaeoanatomy Munich

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