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Reconstructing the Sixth Century Plague from a Victim

Author(s) -

Joseph Caspermeyer

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

molecular biology and evolution

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 6.637

H-Index - 218

eISSN - 1537-1719

pISSN - 0737-4038

DOI - 10.1093/molbev/msw203

Subject(s) - biology , plague (disease) , evolutionary biology , yersinia pestis , genealogy , ancient history , genetics , history , gene , virulence

Adult woman AE1175 (left) and adult man AE1176 (right) excavated atAltenerding and found positive for presence of Y. pestis © State Collection of Anthropology and Palaeoanatomy Munich).The arrow shows the third Molar sampled from individual AE1175 from which the Altenerding high coverage genome was obtained.Grave goods of individual AE1175 and AE1176 typical of the middle of the 6th century (©Archaeological State Collection Munich), Grave goods not shown true to scale). Credit: State Collection of Anthropology and Palaeoanatomy Munich

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