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Integrative approach using Yersinia pestis genomes to revisit the historical landscape of plague during the Medieval Period

  • Amine Namouchi
  • , Meriam Guellil
  • , Oliver Kersten
  • , Stephanie Hansch
  • , Claudio Ottoni
  • , Boris V. Schmid
  • , Elsa Pacciani
  • , Luisa Quaglia
  • , Marco Vermunt
  • , Egil L. Bauer
  • , Michael Derrick
  • , Anne O. Jensen
  • , Sacha Kacki
  • , Samuel K. Cohn
  • , Nils C. Stenseth
  • , Barbara Bramanti

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)E11790-E11797
Number of pages8
JournalProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Volume115
Issue number50
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 11 Dec 2018

Funding

We thank Lars Walloe for useful comments and discussion; and Joachim Burger for providing access to the aDNA facilities at the University of Mainz, Germany. This project was funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the FP7-IDEAS-ERC Program (Grant 324249). Part of the data analysis was performed on the Abel Cluster, owned by the University of Oslo and the Norwegian metacenter for High Performance Computing (NOTUR) and operated by the Department for Research Computing at the University Center for Information Technology Services (USIT), University of Oslo. C.O. is funded by Satsningsmiljo Grant Comparative Infection Biology (COMPI), Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo.

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

  • 106014 Genomics

Keywords

  • plague
  • Medieval
  • ancient DNA
  • Yersinia pestis
  • Second Pandemic
  • BLACK-DEATH
  • ANCIENT DNA
  • VISUALIZATION
  • PERFORMANCE
  • POPULATION
  • Ancient DNA
  • Plague

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