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The Globe and Mail
4 months ago
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Study reveals how the evolution of a single gene allowed the plague to keep killing
A multiyear investigation pieced together ancient DNA from strains of the plague, bringing together researchers from across the Atlantic
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/science/article-plague-black-death-gene-evolution-study/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky
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Pierre LĂŞ-Bury
4 months ago
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! â ď¸ Curious of what happened to Yersinia pestis, the bacterium responsible for the Black Death, throughout plague pandemics? Check out our new study đ
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Attenuation of virulence in Yersinia pestis across three plague pandemics
Yersinia pestis has spilled over from wild rodent reservoirs to commensal rodents and humans, causing three historically recorded pandemics. Depletion in the copy number of the plasmid-encoded virulen...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt3880
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