Global emergence and evolutionary dynamics of bluetongue virus

Abstract Bluetongue virus (BTV) epidemics are responsible for worldwide economic losses of up to US$ 3 billion. Understanding the global evolutionary epidemiology of BTV is critical in designing intervention programs. Here we employed phylodynamic models to quantify the evolutionary characteristics,...

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Main Authors: Moh A. Alkhamis, Cecilia Aguilar-Vega, Nicholas M. Fountain-Jones, Kai Lin, Andres M. Perez, José M. Sánchez-Vizcaíno
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-12-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78673-9

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