New Family Tree for Plague Traces Its Paths Out of China

Thursday, November 11, 2010 - 09:51 in Biology & Nature

A family tree for Yersinia pestis, the bacterium responsible for plague, shows that it evolved in China and spread to other areas multiple times.

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