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Genetic material pulled from 13 teeth found in a grave in Lithuania revealed infectious diseases that felled the French ...

Tsukuba, Japan—Viruses are ubiquitous in the environment, and organisms have developed various mechanisms to counter their threat. However, the genome of actinomycetes contains a highly conserved gene ...