title: Draft genome sequences of Yersinia pestis isolates from natural foci of endemic plague in China.
abstract: To gain insights into the evolutionary origin, emergence, and pathogenicity of the etiologic agent of plague, we have sequenced the genomes of four Yersinia pestis strains isolated from the zoonotic rodent reservoir in foci of endemic plague in China. These resources enable in-depth studies of Y. pestis sequence variations and detailed whole-genome comparisons of very closely related genomes from the supposed site of the origin and the emergence of global pandemics of plague.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Eppinger
authors.forename: Zhaobiao
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Yinong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sebastian
authors.forename: Yajun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Luther E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Lindler
authors.forename: Ruifu
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Jacques
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ravel
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D004197:Disease Reservoirs; D019353:Endemic Diseases; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010930:Plague / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D012377:Rodentia / Q000382:microbiology; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D015010:Yersinia pestis / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial