Signal propagation in complex networks drives epidemics, is responsible for information
going viral, promotes trust and facilitates moral behavior in social groups, enables the …

Zoonotic spillover, which is the transmission of a pathogen from a vertebrate animal to a
human, presents a global public health burden but is a poorly understood phenomenon …

Over the past decade, a genomics revolution, made possible through the development of
high-throughput sequencing, has triggered considerable progress in the study of ancient …

Controlling pathogen circulation in wildlife reservoirs is notoriously challenging. In Latin
America, vampire bats have been culled for decades in hopes of mitigating lethal rabies …

Technological advances in DNA recovery and sequencing have drastically expanded the
scope of genetic analyses of ancient specimens to the extent that full genomic investigations …

The Black Death, originating in Asia, arrived in the Mediterranean harbors of Europe in 1347
CE, via the land and sea trade routes of the ancient Silk Road system. This epidemic marked …

Rodents are the most abundant and diversified order of living mammals in the world.
Already since the Middle Ages we know that they can contribute to human disease, as black …

Urban Norway and black rats (Rattus norvegicus and Rattus rattus) are the source of a
number of pathogens responsible for significant human morbidity and mortality in cities …

Plague, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, can spread through human populations by
multiple transmission pathways. Today, most human plague cases are bubonic, caused by …

Plague is a pandemic human invasive disease caused by the bacterial agent Yersinia
pestis. We here report a comparison of 17 whole genomes of Y. pestis isolates from global …