Paleogenetic found in Russia, the ancient plague on the Earth MOSCOW, 9 Aug — RIA Novosti. Genetics “resurrect” the genome of the oldest Yersinia pestis in the soil, the traces of which they found on the bones of ancient people who lived in the vicinity of Samara approximately 3.8 thousand years ago. Their findings were published in the journal Nature Communications. “We managed to recover the genome of Yersinia pestis, found in remains of people who lived in the vicinity of Samara in the late bronze age. It was noticeably different on the device DNA from the earlier versions of these microbes and has been fully adapted for dissemination via fleas,” says Johannes Krause (Johannes Krause) from the Institute for the study of human history in Jena (Germany). Krause known as “the necromancer” — paleogenetic, and his colleagues have several years of work to restore the history of the largest
