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Review
. 2015 Jul 9;11(7):e1004902.
doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004902. eCollection 2015 Jul.

RNA Virus Reassortment: An Evolutionary Mechanism for Host Jumps and Immune Evasion

Dhanasekaran Vijaykrishna  1 , Reshmi Mukerji  2 , Gavin J D Smith  3
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Review

RNA Virus Reassortment: An Evolutionary Mechanism for Host Jumps and Immune Evasion

Dhanasekaran Vijaykrishna et al. PLoS Pathog. .
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The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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Fig 1
Fig 1. Reassortment of two tripartite genomes producing a novel reassortant.
A) Diagrammatic representation of the emergence of a novel reassortant strain with genes derived from two parents. B) Phylogenetic discordance between segments 1 and 3 (left) and segment 2 (right) for three tripartite strains. Branches in bolder colors represent parental strains, whereas lighter colors represent the acquisition of gene segments from different parents to form a novel reassortant strain.
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