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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Main Authors: Mara Villa, Michael Lässig
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-11-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5675378?pdf=render