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SUBMITTER: Forrester NL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3302268 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Forrester N L NL Palacios G G Tesh R B RB Savji N N Guzman H H Sherman M M Weaver S C SC Lipkin W I WI
Journal of virology 20111221 5
The genus Alphavirus comprises a diverse group of viruses, including some that cause severe disease. Using full-length sequences of all known alphaviruses, we produced a robust and comprehensive phylogeny of the Alphavirus genus, presenting a more complete evolutionary history of these viruses compared to previous studies based on partial sequences. Our phylogeny suggests the origin of the alphaviruses occurred in the southern oceans and spread equally through the Old and New World. Since lice a ...[more]