Identifying the pattern of molecular evolution for Zaire ebolavirus in the 2014 outbreak in West Africa

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 32, Issue , 2015, Pages 51-59

  Liu, Si Qing ^a   Deng, Cheng Lin ^a   Yuan, Zhi Ming ^a   Rayner, Simon ^a   Zhang, Bo ^a  

^a WUHAN INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Evolutionary rate; Positive selection; West Africa; Zaire ebolavirus

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; MUCIN; ENVELOPE GLYCOPROTEIN, EBOLA VIRUS; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AFRICA; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EBOLA VIRUS; EPIDEMIC; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GP GENE; IMMUNE EVASION; L GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ZAIRE EBOLAVIRUS; EBOLAVIRUS; GENETICS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMAN; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENE;

EBOLA VIRUS; ZAIRE EBOLAVIRUS;

AFRICA, WESTERN; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLAVIRUS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS;

EID: 84924333006     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2015.02.024     Document Type: Article

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