Publication Date:
2015-04-10
Description:
Article H7N9 bird flu viruses cause mild disease in poultry but can occasionally infect humans with fatal consequences. Here, the authors show that viral genetic diversification is low in ferrets and high in chickens, suggesting that a genetic bottleneck limits H7N9 adaptation to mammals Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/ncomms7553 Authors: Hassan Zaraket, Tatiana Baranovich, Bryan S. Kaplan, Robert Carter, Min-Suk Song, James C. Paulson, Jerold E. Rehg, Justin Bahl, Jeri C. Crumpton, Jon Seiler, Michael Edmonson, Gang Wu, Erik Karlsson, Thomas Fabrizio, Huachen Zhu, Yi Guan, Matloob Husain, Stacey Schultz-Cherry, Scott Krauss, Ryan McBride, Robert G. Webster, Elena A. Govorkova, Jinghui Zhang, Charles J. Russell, Richard J. Webby
Electronic ISSN:
2041-1723
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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