Evolution of the influenza a virus: Some new advances

Evolutionary Bioinformatics

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages 299-307

  Rabadan, Raul ^a   Robins, Harlan ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Antigenic drift; Antigenic shift; Avian influenza; Human; Influenza; Pandemic influenza; Reassortment; Seasonal influenza; Spanish flu

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS HEMAGGLUTININ; VIRUS SIALIDASE;

EVOLUTION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC REASSORTMENT; HUMAN; INFLUENZA A; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; POINT MUTATION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRION; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS STRAIN;

EID: 77955277717     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11769343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/117693430700300021     Document Type: Review

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