… Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague, has been prevalent among humans for at …
in history, including the Black Death. Analyses of the genetic diversity of ancient strains of …

… In this regard, the 1346-1353 Yersinia pestis-caused Black Death pandemic, with continued
plague outbreaks spanning several hundred years, is one of the most devastating recorded …

… span between the end of the Black Death and the emergence of the pestis secunda to a three-…
, similar to other post-Black Death outbreaks, as having originated from a local source of Y. …

… now understood as the main agent involved in the Black Death (conventionally dated
1346-1353 CE), considered the most severe epidemic catastrophe in human history, and …

… successful sequencing of the first whole aDNA genome from the Black Death victims in
London (1349) in 2011, there have been more than 110 publicly available ancient genomes of Y. …

… synthesis of archaeological, historical and ancient genomic data shows a clear involvement
of the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis in this epidemic event. Two reconstructed ancient Y. …

… genomic studies have identified Yersinia pestis (Y. pestis) as the causative agent of the
second plague … published post-Black Death strains, but not in the Black Death strains. The pla …

… Extinct lineages of Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of the plague, have been … plague
was spread to Europe’s northwestern periphery by sequencing three Yersinia pestis genomes …

… the Black Death is … draft genome dating from 1348 to 1350 was reported in 2011 (East
Smithfield strain) and was reconstructed using ancient DNA from teeth and bones from the plague-…

… the Black Death that spread across a large geographic area of Europe with local diversification
(35). We found this assumption confirmed by a weak but significant correlation between …