[HTML][HTML] The evolution of seasonal influenza viruses

VN Petrova, CA Russell - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2018 - nature.com
Despite decades of surveillance and pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions,
seasonal influenza viruses continue to cause epidemics around the world each year. The …

Bat-borne virus diversity, spillover and emergence

M Letko, SN Seifert, KJ Olival, RK Plowright… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Most viral pathogens in humans have animal origins and arose through cross-species
transmission. Over the past 50 years, several viruses, including Ebola virus, Marburg virus …

An amplicon-based sequencing framework for accurately measuring intrahost virus diversity using PrimalSeq and iVar

ND Grubaugh, K Gangavarapu, J Quick, NL Matteson… - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
How viruses evolve within hosts can dictate infection outcomes; however, reconstructing this
process is challenging. We evaluate our multiplexed amplicon approach, PrimalSeq, to …

Host and viral determinants of influenza A virus species specificity

JS Long, B Mistry, SM Haslam… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Influenza A viruses cause pandemics when they cross between species and an
antigenically novel virus acquires the ability to infect and transmit between these new hosts …

Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in domestic cats imposes a narrow bottleneck

KM Braun, GK Moreno, PJ Halfmann… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The evolutionary mechanisms by which SARS-CoV-2 viruses adapt to mammalian hosts
and, potentially, undergo antigenic evolution depend on the ways genetic variation is …

[HTML][HTML] Human adaptation of Ebola virus during the West African outbreak

RA Urbanowicz, CP McClure, A Sakuntabhai, AA Sall… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
The 2013–2016 outbreak of Ebola virus (EBOV) in West Africa was the largest recorded. It
began following the cross-species transmission of EBOV from an animal reservoir, most …

Predicting virus emergence amid evolutionary noise

JL Geoghegan, EC Holmes - Open biology, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The study of virus disease emergence, whether it can be predicted and how it might be
prevented, has become a major research topic in biomedicine. Here we show that efforts to …

Fall webworm genomes yield insights into rapid adaptation of invasive species

N Wu, S Zhang, X Li, Y Cao, X Liu, Q Wang… - Nature ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
Invasive species cause considerable ecological and economic damage. Despite decades of
broad impacts of invasives on diversity and agriculture, the genetic adaptations and near …

Host–Pathogen interactions influencing zoonotic spillover potential and transmission in humans

B Escudero-Pérez, A Lalande, C Mathieu, P Lawrence - Viruses, 2023 - mdpi.com
Emerging infectious diseases of zoonotic origin are an ever-increasing public health risk
and economic burden. The factors that determine if and when an animal virus is able to spill …

Transmission bottleneck size estimation from pathogen deep-sequencing data, with an application to human influenza A virus

A Sobel Leonard, DB Weissman, B Greenbaum… - Journal of …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
The bottleneck governing infectious disease transmission describes the size of the pathogen
population transferred from the donor to the recipient host. Accurate quantification of the …