Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague, crippled population across Eurasia in three well-described historical pandemics: The Justinianic plague (541-780), the Second Pandemic (1346-1840) and the Third Pandemic (1894-). The Second Pandemic was the deadliest, with the Black Death (1346-1351) killing up to 60% of...
F. Seersholm, Gabriele Scorrano, J. Ploug et al.· bioRxiv· 0 citations
23 new Y. pestis genomes recovered from Second Plague Pandemic contexts across Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Iceland, and Armenia are reported and clade-defining mutations are identified, including nonsynonymous changes in metabolic and biofilm-related genes with predicted structural effects that may have contributed t...
Cameron Ferguson, Å. J. Vågene, Marcel Keller et al.· bioRxiv· 1 citation
Analysis of a markedly larger, higher-coverage, and geographically diverse whole-genome sequencing dataset from 529 ancient individuals sheds important light on the demographic impact of major sociohistorical changes that occurred during the late Medieval period in Scandinavia and the Baltic region and link Christianis...
Xiaodong Liu, K. Moore, S. Ebenesersdóttir et al.· 0 citations
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