Family tree for plague traces its paths out of China

Friday, November 12, 2010 - 11:40 in Biology & Nature

The microbe responsible for plague evolved in or around China more than 2,600 years ago and spread around the globe in the following millennia, according to the most comprehensive genetic study to map out the family tree of the bacterium known as Yersinia pestis.

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