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SUBMITTER: Gibbs MJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1088560 | biostudies-other | 2001 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 20011201 1416
Published analyses of the sequences of three genes from the 1918 Spanish influenza virus have cast doubt on the theory that it came from birds immediately before the pandemic. They showed that the virus was of the H1N1 subtype lineage but more closely related to mammal-infecting strains than any known bird-infecting strain. They provided no evidence that the virus originated by gene reassortment nor that the virus was the direct ancestor of the two lineages of H1N1 viruses currently found in mam ...[more]