[Ansteorra] Black death sequence

[Colleen Fisher]

What's really cool about the paper is that they manged to get DNA from tooth
and bone samples, then get a near full (93.48%) genome of the critter with
minimum coverage. It's also surprising that there are so few single
nucleotide changes in the genome and plasmids, but it's kinda weird to look
at just that for virulence. Also, they point out that there are large genome
changes and don't look at the possible virulence impact of those more major
changes except for matching that information to modern strains.

Aah well, kinda cool anyways.

-Kite the Damaged
(kinda cool to see my job have something to do with Period life)

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Scott Fridenberg <fitzmorgan at gmail.com>wrote:

>  Here is one:
> http://www.gizmag.com/black-death-genome-reconstructed/20155/
>
> If you do a Google search for Black Death then click on the news tab you
> will find several more.
>
> Robert
>
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Miles Grey <Kahn at west-point.org> wrote:
>
> > Lady Elyssa,
> >  Thanks for passing this along - it sounds very interesting.  Is it
> > possible for everyone to read the article?  If so, do you have a link to
> > it?
> >
> >  Thank you,
> >     Miles Grey
> >
> >
> >
> > Lady Elyssa wrote:
> > > One of the pathology newsfeeds I subscribe to had an artical on Y
> > > pestis,the organisms that causes plague. Researchers collected DNA from
> 4
> > > black death victims buried in a London cemetery in 1348. The y pestis
> > > collected was completed sequenced. The research purpose was to find out
> > > why the symptoms are different in today's victims. Turns out the
> organism
> > > hasn't changed much. The difference was more living conditions,
> weather,
> > > war and other environmental issues. This paper might be an interesting
> > > source for historically accurate information on London living.
> > > Elyssa de Orozco
> >
> >
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