Ebolavirus is evolving but not changing: No evidence for functional change in EBOV from 1976 to the 2014 outbreak

Virology

Volumn 482, Issue , 2015, Pages 202-207

  Olabode, Abayomi S ^a   Jiang, Xiaowei ^a,b   Robertson, David L ^a   Lovell, Simon C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Ebola; Evolution; Protein function; Protein structure

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EBOLA VIRUS; EPIDEMIC; FILOVIRUS INFECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; CLASSIFICATION; EBOLAVIRUS; GENETICS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MISSENSE MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

EBOLA VIRUS;

VIRUS PROTEIN;

AFRICA, WESTERN; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLAVIRUS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84927631685     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: 10960341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2015.03.029     Document Type: Article

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