A change to a single gene in the bacterium Yersinia pestis has enabled one of the world’s most notorious pathogens to survive ...

Reducing the copies of one gene in the bubonic plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, made it less deadly but potentially more ...

A small genetic change makes the bacterium that caused the plague less fatal but possibly more transmissible, allowing for ...

Learn more about Yersinia pestis, the bacteria behind the ‘Black Death,' which changed over time to cause less virulent, but ...

历史长河中，鼠疫耶尔森菌 (Yersinia pestis)曾三次席卷全球，而最新研究揭开了它"自我削弱"的生存策略。科学家们发现，无论是查士丁尼瘟疫还是黑死病时期的古菌株，抑或现代越南分离株，都出现了pla毒力基因的拷贝数减少现象。这个编码纤溶酶原激活剂 (Pla)的基因原本位于高拷贝质粒pPCP1上，但在演化过程中会转移到单拷贝的pCD1质粒或染色体上。

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Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to ...

Alterations to a single gene in the plague bacterium's genome have shed light on a method the germ has used to survive and ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to survive hundreds of years by adjusting its virulence and the length of time ...

New research indicates that the plague bacteria, Yersinia pestis, have evolved to become less deadly over centuries, enabling ...

Scientists at the Institut Pasteur and McMaster University have discovered that the evolution of a gene in the bacterium that ...

Yersinia pestis continued infecting people in three separate pandemics over more than a thousand years. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.