Yersinia pestis DNA from Skeletal Remains from the 6^th Century AD Reveals Insights into Justinianic Plague

• Michaela Harbeck ,

  * E-mail: M.Harbeck@lrz.uni-muenchen.de (MH); holger1scholz@bundeswehr.org (HCS); bramanti@uni-mainz.de (BB)

  Affiliation State Collection for Anthropology and Palaeoanatomy, Munich, Germany

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• Lisa Seifert,

  Affiliation Department Biology I, Anthropology and Human Genetics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Martinsried, Germany

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• Stephanie Hänsch,

  Affiliations Institute for Anthropology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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• David M. Wagner,

  Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

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• Dawn Birdsell,

  Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

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• Katy L. Parise,

  Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

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• Ingrid Wiechmann,

  Affiliation Institute of Palaeoanatomy, Domestication Research and the History of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Veterinary Sciences, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany

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• Gisela Grupe,

  Affiliations State Collection for Anthropology and Palaeoanatomy, Munich, Germany, Department Biology I, Anthropology and Human Genetics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Martinsried, Germany

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• Astrid Thomas,

  Affiliation Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany

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• Paul Keim,

  Affiliation Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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• Lothar Zöller,

  Affiliation Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany

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• Barbara Bramanti ,

  * E-mail: M.Harbeck@lrz.uni-muenchen.de (MH); holger1scholz@bundeswehr.org (HCS); bramanti@uni-mainz.de (BB)

  Affiliations Institute for Anthropology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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• Julia M. Riehm,

  Affiliation Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany

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• Holger C. Scholz

  * E-mail: M.Harbeck@lrz.uni-muenchen.de (MH); holger1scholz@bundeswehr.org (HCS); bramanti@uni-mainz.de (BB)

  Affiliation Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany

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