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    Questioning the evidence for genetic recombination in the 1918 "Spanish flu" virus (2002)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 2002-04-16
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Worobey, Michael -- Rambaut, Andrew -- Pybus, Oliver G -- Robertson, David L -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2002 Apr 12;296(5566):211 discussion 211.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PS, UK.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11951002" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Disease Outbreaks ; Evolution, Molecular ; Hemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza Virus/*genetics ; Humans ; Influenza A virus/*genetics/pathogenicity ; Influenza, Human/*epidemiology/*virology ; Likelihood Functions ; Phylogeny ; *Recombination, Genetic ; Virulence
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    The epidemic behavior of the hepatitis C virus (2001)
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    Publication Date: 2001-06-26
    Description: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a leading worldwide cause of liver disease. Here, we use a new model of HCV spread to investigate the epidemic behavior of the virus and to estimate its basic reproductive number from gene sequence data. We find significant differences in epidemic behavior among HCV subtypes and suggest that these differences are largely the result of subtype-specific transmission patterns. Our model builds a bridge between the disciplines of population genetics and mathematical epidemiology by using pathogen gene sequences to infer the population dynamic history of an infectious disease.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Pybus, O G -- Charleston, M A -- Gupta, S -- Rambaut, A -- Holmes, E C -- Harvey, P H -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2001 Jun 22;292(5525):2323-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PS, UK. oliver.pybus@zoo.ox.ac.uk〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11423661" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Endemic Diseases ; Genes, Viral ; Hepacivirus/classification/genetics/*physiology ; Hepatitis C/*epidemiology/transmission/*virology ; Humans ; Likelihood Functions ; Models, Biological ; Molecular Epidemiology ; Phylogeny ; Population Dynamics ; Prevalence ; Substance Abuse, Intravenous/complications
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    The genomic and epidemiological dynamics of human influenza A virus (2008)
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    Publication Date: 2008-04-18
    Description: The evolutionary interaction between influenza A virus and the human immune system, manifest as 'antigenic drift' of the viral haemagglutinin, is one of the best described patterns in molecular evolution. However, little is known about the genome-scale evolutionary dynamics of this pathogen. Similarly, how genomic processes relate to global influenza epidemiology, in which the A/H3N2 and A/H1N1 subtypes co-circulate, is poorly understood. Here through an analysis of 1,302 complete viral genomes sampled from temperate populations in both hemispheres, we show that the genomic evolution of influenza A virus is characterized by a complex interplay between frequent reassortment and periodic selective sweeps. The A/H3N2 and A/H1N1 subtypes exhibit different evolutionary dynamics, with diverse lineages circulating in A/H1N1, indicative of weaker antigenic drift. These results suggest a sink-source model of viral ecology in which new lineages are seeded from a persistent influenza reservoir, which we hypothesize to be located in the tropics, to sink populations in temperate regions.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2441973/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2441973/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Rambaut, Andrew -- Pybus, Oliver G -- Nelson, Martha I -- Viboud, Cecile -- Taubenberger, Jeffery K -- Holmes, Edward C -- Z01 AI000996-01/Intramural NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2008 May 29;453(7195):615-9. doi: 10.1038/nature06945. Epub 2008 Apr 16.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Ashworth Laboratories, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK. a.rambaut@ed.ac.uk〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18418375" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: *Evolution, Molecular ; Genetic Drift ; Genetic Variation ; Genome, Viral/*genetics ; Hemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza Virus/genetics ; Humans ; Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype/*genetics/immunology ; Influenza A Virus, H3N2 Subtype/*genetics/immunology ; Influenza, Human/*epidemiology/*virology ; Models, Biological ; Neuraminidase/genetics ; New York/epidemiology ; New Zealand/epidemiology ; Phylogeny ; Reassortant Viruses/genetics/immunology
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    Adaptation of HIV-1 to human leukocyte antigen class I (2009)
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    Publication Date: 2009-02-27
    Description: The rapid and extensive spread of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic provides a rare opportunity to witness host-pathogen co-evolution involving humans. A focal point is the interaction between genes encoding human leukocyte antigen (HLA) and those encoding HIV proteins. HLA molecules present fragments (epitopes) of HIV proteins on the surface of infected cells to enable immune recognition and killing by CD8(+) T cells; particular HLA molecules, such as HLA-B*57, HLA-B*27 and HLA-B*51, are more likely to mediate successful control of HIV infection. Mutation within these epitopes can allow viral escape from CD8(+) T-cell recognition. Here we analysed viral sequences and HLA alleles from 〉2,800 subjects, drawn from 9 distinct study cohorts spanning 5 continents. Initial analysis of the HLA-B*51-restricted epitope, TAFTIPSI (reverse transcriptase residues 128-135), showed a strong correlation between the frequency of the escape mutation I135X and HLA-B*51 prevalence in the 9 study cohorts (P = 0.0001). Extending these analyses to incorporate other well-defined CD8(+) T-cell epitopes, including those restricted by HLA-B*57 and HLA-B*27, showed that the frequency of these epitope variants (n = 14) was consistently correlated with the prevalence of the restricting HLA allele in the different cohorts (together, P 〈 0.0001), demonstrating strong evidence of HIV adaptation to HLA at a population level. This process of viral adaptation may dismantle the well-established HLA associations with control of HIV infection that are linked to the availability of key epitopes, and highlights the challenge for a vaccine to keep pace with the changing immunological landscape presented by HIV.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3148020/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3148020/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kawashima, Yuka -- Pfafferott, Katja -- Frater, John -- Matthews, Philippa -- Payne, Rebecca -- Addo, Marylyn -- Gatanaga, Hiroyuki -- Fujiwara, Mamoru -- Hachiya, Atsuko -- Koizumi, Hirokazu -- Kuse, Nozomi -- Oka, Shinichi -- Duda, Anna -- Prendergast, Andrew -- Crawford, Hayley -- Leslie, Alasdair -- Brumme, Zabrina -- Brumme, Chanson -- Allen, Todd -- Brander, Christian -- Kaslow, Richard -- Tang, James -- Hunter, Eric -- Allen, Susan -- Mulenga, Joseph -- Branch, Songee -- Roach, Tim -- John, Mina -- Mallal, Simon -- Ogwu, Anthony -- Shapiro, Roger -- Prado, Julia G -- Fidler, Sarah -- Weber, Jonathan -- Pybus, Oliver G -- Klenerman, Paul -- Ndung'u, Thumbi -- Phillips, Rodney -- Heckerman, David -- Harrigan, P Richard -- Walker, Bruce D -- Takiguchi, Masafumi -- Goulder, Philip -- 1 R01 AI067073/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- G0500384/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- G0501777/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- G108/626/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- R01 AI046995/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI046995-10/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI060460/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI064060/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI064060-06A1/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01AI46995/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01AI64060/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- England -- Nature. 2009 Apr 2;458(7238):641-5. doi: 10.1038/nature07746. Epub 2009 Feb 25.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Division of Viral Immunology, Center for AIDS Research, Kumamoto University, 2-2-1 Honjo, Kumamoto 860-0811, Japan.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19242411" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Alleles ; CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology ; Cohort Studies ; Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/chemistry/genetics/immunology ; HIV Antigens/chemistry/genetics/immunology ; HIV-1/genetics/*immunology/physiology ; HLA-B Antigens/genetics/*immunology ; Humans ; Internationality ; Leukocytes/*immunology ; Polymorphism, Genetic ; gag Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency Virus/chemistry/genetics/immunology
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    Origins and evolutionary genomics of the 2009 swine-origin H1N1 influenza A epidemic (2009)
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    Publication Date: 2009-06-12
    Description: In March and early April 2009, a new swine-origin influenza A (H1N1) virus (S-OIV) emerged in Mexico and the United States. During the first few weeks of surveillance, the virus spread worldwide to 30 countries (as of May 11) by human-to-human transmission, causing the World Health Organization to raise its pandemic alert to level 5 of 6. This virus has the potential to develop into the first influenza pandemic of the twenty-first century. Here we use evolutionary analysis to estimate the timescale of the origins and the early development of the S-OIV epidemic. We show that it was derived from several viruses circulating in swine, and that the initial transmission to humans occurred several months before recognition of the outbreak. A phylogenetic estimate of the gaps in genetic surveillance indicates a long period of unsampled ancestry before the S-OIV outbreak, suggesting that the reassortment of swine lineages may have occurred years before emergence in humans, and that the multiple genetic ancestry of S-OIV is not indicative of an artificial origin. Furthermore, the unsampled history of the epidemic means that the nature and location of the genetically closest swine viruses reveal little about the immediate origin of the epidemic, despite the fact that we included a panel of closely related and previously unpublished swine influenza isolates. Our results highlight the need for systematic surveillance of influenza in swine, and provide evidence that the mixing of new genetic elements in swine can result in the emergence of viruses with pandemic potential in humans.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Smith, Gavin J D -- Vijaykrishna, Dhanasekaran -- Bahl, Justin -- Lycett, Samantha J -- Worobey, Michael -- Pybus, Oliver G -- Ma, Siu Kit -- Cheung, Chung Lam -- Raghwani, Jayna -- Bhatt, Samir -- Peiris, J S Malik -- Guan, Yi -- Rambaut, Andrew -- BB/E009670/1/Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom -- HHSN266200700005C/PHS HHS/ -- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom -- England -- Nature. 2009 Jun 25;459(7250):1122-5. doi: 10.1038/nature08182.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases & Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR, China.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19516283" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Disease Outbreaks ; *Evolution, Molecular ; Genome, Viral/*genetics ; Humans ; Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype/classification/*genetics ; *Influenza, Human/epidemiology/virology ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Orthomyxoviridae Infections/epidemiology/veterinary/virology ; Phylogeny ; Reassortant Viruses/classification/*genetics ; Swine ; Swine Diseases/*virology ; Time Factors
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    Pandemic potential of a strain of influenza A (H1N1): early findings (2009)
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    Publication Date: 2009-05-13
    Description: A novel influenza A (H1N1) virus has spread rapidly across the globe. Judging its pandemic potential is difficult with limited data, but nevertheless essential to inform appropriate health responses. By analyzing the outbreak in Mexico, early data on international spread, and viral genetic diversity, we make an early assessment of transmissibility and severity. Our estimates suggest that 23,000 (range 6000 to 32,000) individuals had been infected in Mexico by late April, giving an estimated case fatality ratio (CFR) of 0.4% (range: 0.3 to 1.8%) based on confirmed and suspected deaths reported to that time. In a community outbreak in the small community of La Gloria, Veracruz, no deaths were attributed to infection, giving an upper 95% bound on CFR of 0.6%. Thus, although substantial uncertainty remains, clinical severity appears less than that seen in the 1918 influenza pandemic but comparable with that seen in the 1957 pandemic. Clinical attack rates in children in La Gloria were twice that in adults (〈15 years of age: 61%; 〉/=15 years: 29%). Three different epidemiological analyses gave basic reproduction number (R0) estimates in the range of 1.4 to 1.6, whereas a genetic analysis gave a central estimate of 1.2. This range of values is consistent with 14 to 73 generations of human-to-human transmission having occurred in Mexico to late April. Transmissibility is therefore substantially higher than that of seasonal flu, and comparable with lower estimates of R0 obtained from previous influenza pandemics.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3735127/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3735127/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Fraser, Christophe -- Donnelly, Christl A -- Cauchemez, Simon -- Hanage, William P -- Van Kerkhove, Maria D -- Hollingsworth, T Deirdre -- Griffin, Jamie -- Baggaley, Rebecca F -- Jenkins, Helen E -- Lyons, Emily J -- Jombart, Thibaut -- Hinsley, Wes R -- Grassly, Nicholas C -- Balloux, Francois -- Ghani, Azra C -- Ferguson, Neil M -- Rambaut, Andrew -- Pybus, Oliver G -- Lopez-Gatell, Hugo -- Alpuche-Aranda, Celia M -- Chapela, Ietza Bojorquez -- Zavala, Ethel Palacios -- Guevara, Dulce Ma Espejo -- Checchi, Francesco -- Garcia, Erika -- Hugonnet, Stephane -- Roth, Cathy -- WHO Rapid Pandemic Assessment Collaboration -- G0600719/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- GR082623MA/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- U54 GM088491/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom -- Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2009 Jun 19;324(5934):1557-61. doi: 10.1126/science.1176062. Epub 2009 May 11.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, Faculty of Medicine, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19433588" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: *Disease Outbreaks ; Global Health ; Humans ; *Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype ; Influenza, Human/*epidemiology/mortality/transmission/virology ; Mexico/epidemiology ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Travel
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    Rise and fall of the Beringian steppe bison (2004)
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    Publication Date: 2004-11-30
    Description: The widespread extinctions of large mammals at the end of the Pleistocene epoch have often been attributed to the depredations of humans; here we present genetic evidence that questions this assumption. We used ancient DNA and Bayesian techniques to reconstruct a detailed genetic history of bison throughout the late Pleistocene and Holocene epochs. Our analyses depict a large diverse population living throughout Beringia until around 37,000 years before the present, when the population's genetic diversity began to decline dramatically. The timing of this decline correlates with environmental changes associated with the onset of the last glacial cycle, whereas archaeological evidence does not support the presence of large populations of humans in Eastern Beringia until more than 15,000 years later.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Shapiro, Beth -- Drummond, Alexei J -- Rambaut, Andrew -- Wilson, Michael C -- Matheus, Paul E -- Sher, Andrei V -- Pybus, Oliver G -- Gilbert, M Thomas P -- Barnes, Ian -- Binladen, Jonas -- Willerslev, Eske -- Hansen, Anders J -- Baryshnikov, Gennady F -- Burns, James A -- Davydov, Sergei -- Driver, Jonathan C -- Froese, Duane G -- Harington, C Richard -- Keddie, Grant -- Kosintsev, Pavel -- Kunz, Michael L -- Martin, Larry D -- Stephenson, Robert O -- Storer, John -- Tedford, Richard -- Zimov, Sergei -- Cooper, Alan -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2004 Nov 26;306(5701):1561-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Henry Wellcome Ancient Biomolecules Centre, Oxford University, South Parks Road, Oxford OX13PS, UK.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15567864" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Alaska ; Animals ; Bayes Theorem ; *Bison/classification/genetics ; Canada ; China ; *Climate ; DNA, Mitochondrial/genetics ; Environment ; *Fossils ; Genetic Variation ; Genetics, Population ; Human Activities ; Humans ; North America ; Phylogeny ; Population Dynamics ; Sequence Analysis, DNA ; Time
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    Unifying the epidemiological and evolutionary dynamics of pathogens (2004)
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    Publication Date: 2004-01-17
    Description: A key priority for infectious disease research is to clarify how pathogen genetic variation, modulated by host immunity, transmission bottlenecks, and epidemic dynamics, determines the wide variety of pathogen phylogenies observed at scales that range from individual host to population. We call the melding of immunodynamics, epidemiology, and evolutionary biology required to achieve this synthesis pathogen "phylodynamics." We introduce a phylodynamic framework for the dissection of dynamic forces that determine the diversity of epidemiological and phylogenetic patterns observed in RNA viruses of vertebrates. A central pillar of this model is the Evolutionary Infectivity Profile, which captures the relationship between immune selection and pathogen transmission.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Grenfell, Bryan T -- Pybus, Oliver G -- Gog, Julia R -- Wood, James L N -- Daly, Janet M -- Mumford, Jenny A -- Holmes, Edward C -- BB/B524092/1/Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2004 Jan 16;303(5656):327-32.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, UK. btg11@cam.ac.uk〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14726583" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adaptation, Physiological ; Animals ; Antigenic Variation/genetics ; Biological Evolution ; *Disease Outbreaks/veterinary ; Genetics, Population ; Humans ; Immunity ; Mutation ; *Phylogeny ; Population Dynamics ; RNA Virus Infections/*epidemiology/immunology/veterinary/*virology ; RNA Viruses/*genetics/immunology/*pathogenicity/physiology ; Selection, Genetic ; Time Factors ; Vaccination
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    The Diversity and Molecular Evolution of B-Cell Receptors during Infection (2016)
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    Publication Date: 2016-04-22
    Description: B-cell receptors (BCRs) are membrane-bound immunoglobulins that recognize and bind foreign proteins (antigens). BCRs are formed through random somatic changes of germline DNA, creating a vast repertoire of unique sequences that enable individuals to recognize a diverse range of antigens. After encountering antigen for the first time, BCRs undergo a process of affinity maturation, whereby cycles of rapid somatic mutation and selection lead to improved antigen binding. This constitutes an accelerated evolutionary process that takes place over days or weeks. Next-generation sequencing of the gene regions that determine BCR binding has begun to reveal the diversity and dynamics of BCR repertoires in unprecedented detail. Although this new type of sequence data has the potential to revolutionize our understanding of infection dynamics, quantitative analysis is complicated by the unique biology and high diversity of BCR sequences. Models and concepts from molecular evolution and phylogenetics that have been applied successfully to rapidly evolving pathogen populations are increasingly being adopted to study BCR diversity and divergence within individuals. However, BCR dynamics may violate key assumptions of many standard evolutionary methods, as they do not descend from a single ancestor, and experience biased mutation. Here, we review the application of evolutionary models to BCR repertoires and discuss the issues we believe need be addressed for this interdisciplinary field to flourish.
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    Long-term evolution and transmission dynamics of swine influenza A virus (2011)
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    Publication Date: 2011-05-27
    Description: Swine influenza A viruses (SwIV) cause significant economic losses in animal husbandry as well as instances of human disease and occasionally give rise to human pandemics, including that caused by the H1N1/2009 virus. The lack of systematic and longitudinal influenza surveillance in pigs has hampered attempts to reconstruct the origins of this pandemic. Most existing swine data were derived from opportunistic samples collected from diseased pigs in disparate geographical regions, not from prospective studies in defined locations, hence the evolutionary and transmission dynamics of SwIV are poorly understood. Here we quantify the epidemiological, genetic and antigenic dynamics of SwIV in Hong Kong using a data set of more than 650 SwIV isolates and more than 800 swine sera from 12 years of systematic surveillance in this region, supplemented with data stretching back 34 years. Intercontinental virus movement has led to reassortment and lineage replacement, creating an antigenically and genetically diverse virus population whose dynamics are quantitatively different from those previously observed for human influenza viruses. Our findings indicate that increased antigenic drift is associated with reassortment events and offer insights into the emergence of influenza viruses with epidemic potential in swine and humans.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Vijaykrishna, Dhanasekaran -- Smith, Gavin J D -- Pybus, Oliver G -- Zhu, Huachen -- Bhatt, Samir -- Poon, Leo L M -- Riley, Steven -- Bahl, Justin -- Ma, Siu K -- Cheung, Chung L -- Perera, Ranawaka A P M -- Chen, Honglin -- Shortridge, Kennedy F -- Webby, Richard J -- Webster, Robert G -- Guan, Yi -- Peiris, J S Malik -- HHSN26600700005C/PHS HHS/ -- MC_G0902096/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- England -- Nature. 2011 May 26;473(7348):519-22. doi: 10.1038/nature10004.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases & Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21614079" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Birds/virology ; *Evolution, Molecular ; Female ; Hong Kong/epidemiology ; Humans ; Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype/classification/genetics/isolation & ; purification/*physiology ; Influenza in Birds/transmission/virology ; Influenza, Human/epidemiology/transmission/virology ; Male ; Molecular Epidemiology ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Orthomyxoviridae Infections/epidemiology/transmission/*veterinary/virology ; Phylogeny ; Population Surveillance ; Reassortant Viruses/genetics/immunology/isolation & purification/physiology ; Swine/blood/*virology ; Swine Diseases/blood/epidemiology/*transmission/*virology ; Zoonoses/epidemiology/transmission/*virology
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