About the Authors

Luis Roger Esquivel Gomez

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

esquivelgomez@shh.mpg.de (LREG); kuehnert@shh.mpg.de (DK)

Affiliation Transmission, Infection, Diversification & Evolution Group (tide), Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology (formerly MPI for the Science of Human History), Jena, Germany

Cyril Savin

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Université de Paris, Yersinia Research Unit, Paris, France, Institut Pasteur, Université de Paris, Yersinia National Reference Laboratory, Paris, France, Institut Pasteur, Université de Paris, WHO Collaborative Reference & Research Center for Plague FRA-140, Paris, France

Voahangy Andrianaivoarimanana

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Plague Unit, Central Laboratory for Plague, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar

Soloandry Rahajandraibe

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Plague Unit, Central Laboratory for Plague, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar

Lovasoa Nomena Randriantseheno

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Plague Unit, Central Laboratory for Plague, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar

Zhemin Zhou

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Pasteurien College, Medical school of Soochow University, Soochow University, Suzhou, China, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Arthur Kocher

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Transmission, Infection, Diversification & Evolution Group (tide), Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology (formerly MPI for the Science of Human History), Jena, Germany, Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Xavier Didelot

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, Department of Statistics, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Minoarisoa Rajerison

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Plague Unit, Central Laboratory for Plague, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar

Denise Kühnert

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

esquivelgomez@shh.mpg.de (LREG); kuehnert@shh.mpg.de (DK)

Affiliation Transmission, Infection, Diversification & Evolution Group (tide), Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology (formerly MPI for the Science of Human History), Jena, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.