Over the past decade, a genomics revolution, made possible through the development of
high-throughput sequencing, has triggered considerable progress in the study of ancient …

Pathogenic species in the Yersinia genus have historically been targets for research aimed
at understanding how bacteria evolve into mammalian pathogens. The advent of large-scale …

Summary Between 5,000 and 6,000 years ago, many Neolithic societies declined
throughout western Eurasia due to a combination of factors that are still largely debated …

The origin of Yersinia pestis and the early stages of its evolution are fundamental subjects of
investigation given its high virulence and mortality that resulted from past pandemics …

The first historically documented pandemic caused by Yersinia pestis began as the
Justinianic Plague in 541 within the Roman Empire and continued as the so-called First …

Plague is a pandemic human invasive disease caused by the bacterial agent Yersinia
pestis. We here report a comparison of 17 whole genomes of Y. pestis isolates from global …

The second plague pandemic, caused by Yersinia pestis, devastated Europe and the
nearby regions between the 14th and 18th centuries AD. Here we analyse human remains …

Bubonic plague is an often fulminant systemic zoonosis, caused by Yersinia pestis.
Conventional microbiology, bacterial population genetics, and genome sequence data, all …

Background Edwardsiella tarda is the etiologic agent of edwardsiellosis, a devastating fish
disease prevailing in worldwide aquaculture industries. Here we describe the complete …

ABSTRACT Psychrobacter arcticus strain 273-4, which grows at temperatures as low as−
10° C, is the first cold-adapted bacterium from a terrestrial environment whose genome was …