Yin-Qiu Cui

A prehistoric East-Asian Yersinia pestis genome and a ~5.3 ka trans-Eurasian expansion of plague

Mapping variation onto the deep phylogeny showed that the basal stem of the LNBA⁺ lineage is the only one of the seven deep phases examined to show significant enrichment of disruptive genomic remodeling relative to the genome-wide background distribution of mutation categories, consistent with an early episode of adap...