Black Death: A Plague In Your Family

Monday, April 21, 2014 - 21:40 in Biology & Nature

For the first time, researchers have studied the Black Death bacterium's entire family tree to fully understand how some of the family members evolve to become harmful. Contrary to popular belief, pathogenic members of this bacterial family do not share a recent common disease-causing ancestor, but instead, have followed parallel evolutionary paths to become harmful. read more

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