Fitness cost of reassortment in human influenza.
Reassortment, which is the exchange of genome sequence between viruses co-infecting a host cell, plays an important role in the evolution of segmented viruses. In the human influenza virus, reassortment happens most frequently between co-existing variants within the same lineage. This process breaks...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2017-11-01
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Series: | PLoS Pathogens |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5675378?pdf=render |