Non‐random reassortment in human influenza A viruses

Background  The influenza A virus has two basic modes of evolution. Because of a high error rate in the process of replication by RNA polymerase, the viral genome drifts via accumulated mutations. The second mode of evolution is termed a shift, which results from the reassortment of the eight segme...

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Main Authors: Rabadan, Raul, Levine, Arnold J., Krasnitz, Michael
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2008
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4634327/