Article
Seasonal Influenza Viruses Show Distinct Adaptive Dynamics During Growth in Chicken Eggs.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Oct 2025
Kistler Kathryn, Bedford Trevor
Abstract excerpt
Human influenza viruses are grown in chicken eggs for vaccine production. Sequences of these egg-passaged viruses give us the opportunity to examine the evolution that occurs when these human viruses are subjected to the selective pressure of growing in chicken eggs, which (among other things) express different sialic acid receptors. The repetition of this evolutionary experiment in hundreds of strains over the...
Topics
- Animals
- Chickens
- Hemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza Virus
- Influenza A Virus, H3N2 Subtype
- Mutation
- Humans
- Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype
- Evolution, Molecular
- Chick Embryo
- Epistasis, Genetic
- Influenza B virus
