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SUBMITTER: Lam TT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3228906 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lam Tommy Tsan-Yuk TT Ip Hon S HS Ghedin Elodie E Wentworth David E DE Halpin Rebecca A RA Stockwell Timothy B TB Spiro David J DJ Dusek Robert J RJ Bortner James B JB Hoskins Jenny J Bales Bradley D BD Yparraguirre Dan R DR Holmes Edward C EC
Ecology letters 20111018 1
Despite the importance of migratory birds in the ecology and evolution of avian influenza virus (AIV), there is a lack of information on the patterns of AIV spread at the intra-continental scale. We applied a variety of statistical phylogeographic techniques to a plethora of viral genome sequence data to determine the strength, pattern and determinants of gene flow in AIV sampled from wild birds in North America. These analyses revealed a clear isolation-by-distance of AIV among sampling localit ...[more]