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Towards inferring the global movement of beak and feather disease virus.
Virology - 1 Feb 2014
Harkins Gordon W, Martin Darren P, Christoffels Alan, Varsani Arvind
Abstract excerpt
Beak and feather disease virus (BFDV) is a circular single-stranded DNA virus that causes psittacine beak and feather disease. We analysed 184 publically available BFDV full genomes to infer both the approximate geographical origin of the most recent common ancestor (MRCA) of these sequences and past BFDV long-range migrations using a Bayesian phylogeographic analyses. While the analysed BFDV sequences were...
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