Talk:Yersinia pestis, the History of the Plague and Adaptation to Animal Host

Hi Blake.

I found your topic super fascinating. Your page is really informative and the figures are really relevant to your paper, especially the first one about the shape of the bacteria. My suggestion is to reformat the paragraph about the adaptation to an animal host. It's pretty long. You could make a new section about the specific gene because it doesn't seem to really fit into the section. You could also maybe add a bit more to the section about the black plague just because it was a horrible epidemic. Maybe add a little more about the actual economic and culture shifts in Europe?

Good work!

-Kevin

Blake,

This was a fantastic and very informative read! I thoroughly enjoyed learning about the Justinian and Black plagues, because up until this point, I was uneducated as to the specific microbe that actually caused them. I also found it very useful that you have placed in each of your references a hyperlink shortcut to the article below. To finalize this paper, I would suggest proofreading and fixing a few grammatical errors (ie. fragment clauses and unnecessary commas with conjunctions). Especially since you re-state the importance of the Black Death in your conclusion, you may want to elaborate on it as much if not more than you discussed the plague of Justinian. Nice job!

-Danny