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 …

Bubonic plague is an often fulminant systemic zoonosis, caused by Yersinia pestis.
Conventional microbiology, bacterial population genetics, and genome sequence data, all …

Summary Between 5,000 and 6,000 years ago, many Neolithic societies declined
throughout western Eurasia due to a combination of factors that are still largely debated …

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 origin of Yersinia pestis and the early stages of its evolution are fundamental subjects of
investigation given its high virulence and mortality that resulted from past pandemics …

The genetic diversity of Yersinia pestis, the etiologic agent of plague, is extremely limited
because of its recent origin coupled with a slow clock rate. Here we identified 2,326 SNPs …

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 …

The cross-species bacterial communication signal autoinducer 2 (AI-2), produced by the
purified enzymes Pfs (nucleosidase) and LuxS (terminal synthase) from S …

The association of historical plague pandemics with Yersinia pestis remains controversial,
partly because the evolutionary history of this largely monomorphic bacterium was unknown …

ABSTRACT A genomic island encoding the biosynthesis and secretion pathway of putative
hybrid nonribosomal peptide-polyketide colibactin has been recently described in …