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ArticleVirus evolution2024

Influenza A genomic diversity during human infections underscores the strength of genetic drift and the existence of tight transmission bottlenecks.

Michael A Martin, Nick Berg, Katia Koelle

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Article in Virus evolution, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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Michael A MartinDepartment of Pathology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 600 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9689-4066
Nick BergDepartment of Biology, Emory University, 1510 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
Katia KoelleDepartment of Biology, Emory University, 1510 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0254-6141

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Influenza infections result in considerable public health and economic impacts each year. One of the contributing factors to the high annual incidence of human influenza is the virus's ability to evade acquired immunity through continual antigenic evolution. Understanding the evolutionary forces that act within and between hosts is therefore critical to interpreting past trends in influenza virus evolution and in predicting future ones. Several studies have analyzed longitudinal patterns of influenza A virus genetic diversity in natural human infections to assess the relative contributions of selection and genetic drift on within-host evolution. However, in these natural infections, within-host viral populations harbor very few single-nucleotide variants, limiting our resolution in understanding the forces acting on these populations

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PMID38883977
PMCPMC11179161

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