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Genome-scale phylodynamics and evolution analysis of global H7N7 influenza viruses

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Editor, Senior Moderator
Vet Microbiol. 2016 Sep 25;193:83-92. doi: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2016.08.001. Epub 2016 Aug 4.
[h=1]Genome-scale phylodynamics and evolution analysis of global H7N7 influenza viruses.[/h] Wei K[SUP]1[/SUP], Tang X[SUP]2[/SUP], Li Y[SUP]2[/SUP].
[h=3]Author information[/h]

[h=3]Abstract[/h] Previous studies lacked of comprehensive analysis about the evolutionary history and phylogeography of global H7N7 viruses. In this study, it is essential to undertake a genome-scale analysis to investigate the evolutionary processes in a global perspective. There was local phylogenetic divergence among eight trees based on individual segments of 132 strains. We detected four reassortments between four distinct groups of viruses divided by HA gene, suggesting intrasubtype reassortment could accelerate the emergence of highly pathogenic virus. The molecular clock estimated that H7N7 virus evolved at a slower evolutionary rate ranged from 1.03E-03 to 2.81E-03subs/site/year. And we also showed that all gene segments of the virus were under strong purifying selection. A total of 11 positively selected sites were detected by at least two out of three methods. We reconstructed the population dynamics of global H7N7 viruses spanning over a century, revealing that temporal trends of the effective population size were consistent with the major epidemics previously reported. Our study adopt a Bayesian phylogeographic approach to investigate the geographic spread of H7N7 viruses, which combined with temporal and spatial information of all sequences. We have confirmed several migration events between different geographic locations supported by higher values of Bayes factor. The diffusion patterns of H7N7 viruses reveal that the virus is more likely to evolve to expand their host ranges even cross the species.
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[h=4]KEYWORDS:[/h] H7N7; Phylogeography; Population dynamics; Reassortment; Selection pressures

PMID: 27599934 DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2016.08.001
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