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Novel Insights on Hantavirus Evolution: The Dichotomy in Evolutionary Pressures Acting on Different Hantavirus Segments.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Sankar Sathish, Upadhyay Mohita, Ramamurthy Mageshbabu, Vadivel Kumaran, Sagadevan Kalaiselvan, Nandagopal Balaji, Vivekanandan Perumal, Sridharan Gopalan
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Hantaviruses are important emerging zoonotic pathogens. The current understanding of hantavirus evolution is complicated by the lack of consensus on co-divergence of hantaviruses with their animal hosts. In addition, hantaviruses have long-term associations with their reservoir hosts. Analyzing the relative abundance of dinucleotides may shed new light on hantavirus evolution. We studied the relative...
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