Combining mathematics and empirical data to predict emergence of RNA viruses that differ in reservoir use

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1548, 2010, Pages 1919-1930

  Ogbunugafor, C Brandon ^a   Basu, Sanjay ^b   Morales, Nadya M ^a   Turner, Paul E ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Evolutionary ecology; Infectious disease; Niche breadth; Vesicular stomatitis virus

Indexed keywords

DEFINITIVE HOST; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GROWTH MODELING; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; NICHE BREADTH; PATHOGEN; POPULATION GROWTH; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; RNA; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SYNERGISM; VIRUS;

EID: 77954324140     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0075     Document Type: Article

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