Eight Whole-Genome Assemblies of Yersinia pestis subsp.
            <i>microtus</i>
            bv. caucasica Isolated from the Common Vole (
            <i>Microtus arvalis</i>
            ) Plague Focus in Dagestan, Russia

Kislichkina, Angelina A.; Богун, А. Г.; Kadnikova, Lidiya A.; Maiskaya, Nadezhda V.; Solomentsev, Viktor I.; Platonov, M. E.; Dentovskaya, Svetlana V.; Anisimov, Andrey P.

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“…(2020; Table S1). VCFs were generated for RV 2039, one Y. pseudotuberculosis strain and 276 other Y. pestis strains (Bos et al, 2011(Bos et al, , 2016Cui et al, 2013;Damgaard et al, 2018;Eppinger et al, 2010;Eroshenko et al, 2017;Feldman et al, 2016;Keller et al, 2019;Kislichkina et al, 2015Kislichkina et al, , 2017Kislichkina et al, , 2018aKislichkina et al, , 2018bKutyrev et al, 2018;Parkhill et al, 2001;Spyrou et al, 2016Spyrou et al, , 2019Zhgenti et al, 2015). The MulitiVCFAnalyzer was used to generate an alignment containing only phylogenetically informative positions with at least 3x coverage and an allele support of at least 90% of the sequences (Bos et al, 2014).…”

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A 5,000-year-old hunter-gatherer already plagued by Yersinia pestis

Susat¹,

Lübke²,

Immel³

et al. 2021

Cell Reports

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confidence: 99%

A 5,000-year-old hunter-gatherer already plagued by Yersinia pestis

Susat¹,

Lübke²,

Immel³

et al. 2021

Cell Reports

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The Evolutionary History of Yersinia pestis

Slavin,

Cui,

Yang

et al. 2024

Birkhäuser Advances in Infectious Diseases

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The source of the Black Death in fourteenth-century central Eurasia

Spyrou

Musralina

Ruscone

et al. 2022

Nature

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The origin of the medieval Black Death pandemic (ad 1346–1353) has been a topic of continuous investigation because of the pandemic’s extensive demographic impact and long-lasting consequences1,2. Until now, the most debated archaeological evidence potentially associated with the pandemic’s initiation derives from cemeteries located near Lake Issyk-Kul of modern-day Kyrgyzstan1,3–9. These sites are thought to have housed victims of a fourteenth-century epidemic as tombstone inscriptions directly dated to 1338–1339 state ‘pestilence’ as the cause of death for the buried individuals9. Here we report ancient DNA data from seven individuals exhumed from two of these cemeteries, Kara-Djigach and Burana. Our 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. pestis genomes represent a single strain and are identified as the most recent common ancestor of a major diversification commonly associated with the pandemic’s emergence, here dated to the first half of the fourteenth century. Comparisons with present-day diversity from Y. pestis reservoirs in the extended Tian Shan region support a local emergence of the recovered ancient strain. Through multiple lines of evidence, our data support an early fourteenth-century source of the second plague pandemic in central Eurasia.

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Eight Whole-Genome Assemblies of Yersinia pestis subsp. microtus bv. caucasica Isolated from the Common Vole ( Microtus arvalis ) Plague Focus in Dagestan, Russia

Cited by 5 publications

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A 5,000-year-old hunter-gatherer already plagued by Yersinia pestis

A 5,000-year-old hunter-gatherer already plagued by Yersinia pestis

The Evolutionary History of Yersinia pestis

The source of the Black Death in fourteenth-century central Eurasia

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