Plague bacterium located in Britain

摘要

The first genetic evidence ol the Justinian Plague in the British Isles suggests multiple strains of the same bacteria.An international project led by Max Planck Institute in Munich analysed human remains from 21 archaeological burial sites in Austria,Germany,France and Spain,as well as the Anglo-Saxon cemetery of Edix Hill near Barrington,Cambridgeshire.The scientists reconstructed eight new genomes of Yersinia pestis-the bacteria responsible for the first plague pandemic in Europe between the 6th and 8th centuries,known as the Plague of Justinian.