Bronze Age Yersinia pestis genome from sheep sheds light on hosts and evolution of a prehistoric plague lineage
Bronze Age Yersinia pestis genome from sheep sheds light on hosts and evolution of a prehistoric plague lineageA Yersinia pestis genome from a Bronze Age domesticated sheep provides insight into the host range, evolution, and possible transmission scenarios of an ancient lineage of the plague-causing bacteria, previously identified exclusively in ancient humans.A Yersinia pestis genome from a Bronze Age domesticated sheep provides insight into the host range, evolution, and possible transmission scenarios of an ancient lineage of the plague-causing bacteria, previously identified exclusively in ancient humans.Ian Light-Maka, Taylor R. Hermes, Raffaela Angelina Bianco, Lena Semerau, Pavel Kosintsev, Valeriia Alekseeva, Donghee Kim, William P. Hanage, Alexander Herbig, Choongwon Jeong, Christina Warinner, Felix M. Keyhttps://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00851-7?rss=yeshttp://www.cell.com/cell/inpress.rssCellCell RSS feed.Wireless News CampaignAugust 12, 2025
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