Whole genome sequencing of Yersinia pestis isolates from Central Asian natural plague foci revealed the role of adaptation to different hosts and environmental conditions in shaping specific genotypes

• Aigul A. Abdirassilova ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: aigul.abdirassilova@mail.ru (AAA) rysbekova23@mail.ru (AKR)

  Affiliation National Scientific Center of Especially Dangerous Infections named after Masgut Aikimbayev, Laboratory of Molecular-Genetic Studies, Almaty, Kazakhstan

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• Duman T. Yessimseit,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Scientific Center of Especially Dangerous Infections named after Masgut Aikimbayev, Laboratory of Molecular-Genetic Studies, Almaty, Kazakhstan

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• Altynai K. Kassenova,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation National Scientific Center of Especially Dangerous Infections named after Masgut Aikimbayev, Laboratory of Molecular-Genetic Studies, Almaty, Kazakhstan

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• Beck Z. Abdeliyev,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation National Scientific Center of Especially Dangerous Infections named after Masgut Aikimbayev, Laboratory of Molecular-Genetic Studies, Almaty, Kazakhstan

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• Zauresh B. Zhumadilova,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision

  Affiliation National Scientific Center of Especially Dangerous Infections named after Masgut Aikimbayev, Almaty, Kazakhstan

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• Gulnara Zh. Tokmurziyeva,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation National Scientific Center of Especially Dangerous Infections named after Masgut Aikimbayev, Almaty, Kazakhstan

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• Galina G. Kovaleva,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation National Scientific Center of Especially Dangerous Infections named after Masgut Aikimbayev, Almaty, Kazakhstan

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• Ziyat Zh. Abdel,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation National Scientific Center of Especially Dangerous Infections named after Masgut Aikimbayev, Laboratory of Plague Microbiology, Almaty, Kazakhstan

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• Tatiyana V. Meka-Mechenko,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation National Scientific Center of Especially Dangerous Infections named after Masgut Aikimbayev, Laboratory of Plague Microbiology, Almaty, Kazakhstan

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• Saule K. Umarova,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation National Scientific Center of Especially Dangerous Infections named after Masgut Aikimbayev, Almaty, Kazakhstan

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• Elmira Zh. Begimbayeva,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation National Scientific Center of Especially Dangerous Infections named after Masgut Aikimbayev, National Collection of Microorganisms, Almaty, Kazakhstan

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• Sanzhar D. Agzam,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation National Scientific Center of Especially Dangerous Infections named after Masgut Aikimbayev, National Collection of Microorganisms, Almaty, Kazakhstan

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• Vladimir L. Motin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The University of Texas Medical Branch, Dep. of Pathology, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Oleg N. Reva,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology (BMG), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5459-2772

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• Altyn K. Rysbekova

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: aigul.abdirassilova@mail.ru (AAA) rysbekova23@mail.ru (AKR)

  Affiliation National Scientific Center of Especially Dangerous Infections named after Masgut Aikimbayev, Laboratory of Molecular-Genetic Studies, Almaty, Kazakhstan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8684-3425

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