Locations of Newly Sequenced and Previously Published Plague Genomes (IMAGE)
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Locations of newly sequenced (circles) and previously published (triangles) plague genomes, colored by their temporal order.
An international team of researchers has analyzed remains from ten archaeological sites in England, France, Germany, Russia, and Switzerland to gain insight into the different stages of the second plague pandemic (14th-18th centuries) and the genetic diversity of Yersinia pestis during and after the Black Death.
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Spyrou et al.: Phylogeography of the second plague pandemic revealed through analysis of historical Yersinia pestis genomes, <em>Nature Communications</em>, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-12154-0 (Figure 1)
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