Influenza A gradual and epochal evolution: insights from simple models.

The recurrence of influenza A epidemics has originally been explained by a "continuous antigenic drift" scenario. Recently, it has been shown that if genetic drift is gradual, the evolution of influenza A main antigen, the haemagglutinin, is punctuated. As a consequence, it has been sugges...

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Main Authors: Sébastien Ballesteros, Elisabeta Vergu, Bernard Cazelles
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-10-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/19841740/?tool=EBI