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Bacterial genomics

A plague o' both your hosts

Nature volume 413, pages 467–469 (2001)Cite this article

The genome of the bacterium that causes plague is highly dynamic, and scarred by genes acquired from other organisms. Does this explain its ability to kill both mammals and insects?

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Figure 1: How the plague is transmitted.

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    Stewart T. Cole & Carmen Buchrieser

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