While avian influenza viruses are notoriously diverse, human adapted influenza is quite similar from place to place, evolving only relatively slowly and with strain replacement…
Two new papers from our study of the ecology of avian influenza viruses are now available. The first paper, by Barton et al., derives an…
Genetic diversity is an obvious determinant of reassortment in influenza viruses. But how is that diversity measured? How does the rate of reassortment depend on…
The influenza virus is one of the primary causes of acute respiratory infections in humans. Influenza is interesting from an ecological perspective, however, because it…