The Genetics of Acinia Pestis

The identification of the bacteria responsible for black death, acinia pestis, is really important because it allowed historians like monica to completely reassess the story of the plague. It also allows monica and her peers to see how the disease itself evolved over time. The genetics work first started being published in 19 98. They were just publishing fragments of the genetic mate that they found. When you have a portion of the genome, depending on which portion it is, you can say what the organism is. So this is a banana, this is an ant, this is a gorilla, or it's a single celled pathagan. These family trees are called philo genetic trees by those in