Predicting virus emergence amid evolutionary noise

The study of virus disease emergence, whether it can be predicted and how it might be prevented, has become a major research topic in biomedicine. Here we show that efforts to predict disease emergence commonly conflate fundamentally different evolutionary and epidemiological time scales, and are li...

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Main Authors: Jemma L. Geoghegan, Edward C. Holmes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 2017-01-01
Series:Open Biology
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Online Access:https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsob.170189