Article
Non‐random reassortment in human influenza A viruses
1 Jan 2008
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The influenza A virus has two basic modes of evolution. Because of a high error rate in the process of replication by RNA polymerase, the viral genome drifts via accumulated mutations. The second mode of evolution is termed a shift, which results from the reassortment of the eight segments of this virus. When two different influenza viruses co-infect the same host cell, new virions can be released...
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