Thursday, 13 September 2012

Modern History of Genetics




• 2011
• Ewen Callaway published “Plague Genome: The Black Death Decoded” in Nature
• Hendrik Poinar and Krause co-leaders of the research in McMaster’s University
• Coded the genome of Yersinia pestis, which supposedly caused the plague in Europe
• pPCP1 plasmid proved that the Yersinia pestis caused the bubonic plague, which was partly responsible for the black death

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