The AIDS epidemic has been a global public health issue for more than 40 years and has
resulted in~ 40 million deaths. AIDS is caused by the retrovirus, HIV-1, which is transmitted …

Discovering that chytrid fungi cause chytridiomycosis in amphibians represented a paradigm
shift in our understanding of how emerging infectious diseases contribute to global patterns …

Understanding when severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
emerged is critical to evaluating our current approach to monitoring novel zoonotic …

Thirty years after the discovery of HIV-1, the early transmission, dissemination, and
establishment of the virus in human populations remain unclear. Using statistical …

What are the models used in phylogenetic analysis and what exactly is involved in Bayesian
evolutionary analysis using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods? How can you …

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) of humans is caused by two lentiviruses,
human immunodeficiency viruses types 1 and 2 (HIV-1 and HIV-2). Here, we describe the …

We discovered a highly virulent variant of subtype-B HIV-1 in the Netherlands. One hundred
nine individuals with this variant had a 0.54 to 0.74 log10 increase (ie, a~ 3.5-fold to 5.5-fold …

Recent developments in marginal likelihood estimation for model selection in the field of
Bayesian phylogenetics and molecular evolution have emphasized the poor performance of …

The ancient biological'arms race'between microbial pathogens and humans has shaped
genetic variation in modern populations, and this has important implications for the growing …

Humanity is currently facing the challenge of two devastating pandemics caused by two very
different RNA viruses: HIV-1, which has been with us for decades, and SARS-CoV-2, which …