A 5,000-year-old hunter-gatherer already plagued by Yersinia pestis

A 5,000-year-old hunter-gatherer already plagued by Yersinia pestis

Summary: A 5,000-year-old Yersinia pestis genome (RV 2039) is reconstructed from a hunter-fisher-gatherer (5300–5050 cal BP) buried at Riņņukalns, Latvia. RV 2039 is the first in a series of ancient strains that evolved shortly after the split of Y. pestis from its antecessor Y. pseudotuberculosis ∼...

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Main Authors: Julian Susat, Harald Lübke, Alexander Immel, Ute Brinker, Aija Macāne, John Meadows, Britta Steer, Andreas Tholey, Ilga Zagorska, Guntis Gerhards, Ulrich Schmölcke, Mārcis Kalniņš, Andre Franke, Elīna Pētersone-Gordina, Barbara Teßman, Mari Tõrv, Stefan Schreiber, Christian Andree, Valdis Bērziņš, Almut Nebel, Ben Krause-Kyora
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-06-01
Series:Cell Reports
Subjects:
Yersinia pestis
aDNA
hunter-gatherer
zoonosis
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124721006458

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