Assessing the origins of the European Plagues following the Black Death: a synthesis of genomic, historical and ecological information
B. Bramanti, Y. Wu, R. Yang, Y. Cui, N. C. Stenseth
The paper synthesizes genomic, historical, and ecological data to argue that Yersinia pestis entered Europe multiple times during the Second Plague Pandemic, supporting repeated introductions from Asia.
bioRxiv · Apr 20, 2021Evolutionary Biology