[Ansteorra] Black death sequence

[Ely]

There are actually more then one arrival. I am a clinical microbiologist which is why I got the mail about the arrival. I am working this weekend but give me a couple days and I will get you links.
Elyssa de Orozco

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Colleen Fisher <collateral.cepheid at gmail.com> wrote:

>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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