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Boris Schmid: Reconstructing the imprint of ecology on the genetic phylogeography of the Plague in Central Asia and China.
Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague, is a flea-borne disease that caused at least three devastating pandemics in the last two millenia[Stenseth08]. Plague is endemic in wildlife rodents, and the ecological and epidemiological dynamics of the
ro dent-plague system are the underlying cau...