[图书][B] Complexity: A guided tour

M Mitchell - 2009 - books.google.com
What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as
a group? How do trillions of neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as …

Phylodynamics of infectious disease epidemics

EM Volz, SL Kosakovsky Pond, MJ Ward… - Genetics, 2009 - academic.oup.com
We present a formalism for unifying the inference of population size from genetic sequences
and mathematical models of infectious disease in populations. Virus phylogenies have been …

Tracing the HIV-1 subtype B mobility in Europe: a phylogeographic approach

D Paraskevis, O Pybus, G Magiorkinis, A Hatzakis… - Retrovirology, 2009 - Springer
Background The prevalence and the origin of HIV-1 subtype B, the most prevalent
circulating clade among the long-term residents in Europe, have been studied extensively …

Quantifying differences in the tempo of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 subtype evolution

AB Abecasis, AM Vandamme, P Lemey - Journal of virology, 2009 - Am Soc Microbiol
Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) genetic diversity, due to its high evolutionary
rate, has long been identified as a main cause of problems in the development of an efficient …

Officer perceptions of risk of contracting HIV/AIDS in prison: A two-state comparison

LF Alarid, JW Marquart - The Prison Journal, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
A theme of the late modernity perspective as applied to prisons is maximizing safety and
minimizing risk in the face of an uncertain work environment. Correctional officers in two …

[HTML][HTML] The evolutionary rate dynamically tracks changes in HIV-1 epidemics: application of a simple method for optimizing the evolutionary rate in phylogenetic trees …

IM Berry, G Athreya, M Kothari, M Daniels, WJ Bruno… - Epidemics, 2009 - Elsevier
Large-sequence datasets provide an opportunity to investigate the dynamics of pathogen
epidemics. Thus, a fast method to estimate the evolutionary rate from large and numerous …

Evidences of recent decline in the expansion rate of the HIV type 1 subtype C and CRF31_BC epidemics in southern Brazil

G Bello, ML Guimaraes, CPB Passaes… - AIDS research and …, 2009 - liebertpub.com
The HIV-1 epidemic in southern Brazil is characterized by the high prevalence of subtype C
and CRF31_BC infections but little is known about the population dynamics of these strains …

[HTML][HTML] Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 subtypes prevalence in central China

F Zhao, Z Wang, W Li - Yonsei medical journal, 2009 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Purpose To study the epidemic characteristics, transmission sources and routes of various
subtypes of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and sequence variations in …

Functional properties and epitope characteristics of T-cells recognizing natural HIV-1 variants

U Malhotra, J Nolin, H Horton, F Li, L Corey, JI Mullins… - Vaccine, 2009 - Elsevier
To understand how broad recognition of HIV-1 variants may be achieved we examined T-
cell reactivity in newly infected persons as well as vaccine recipients to a broad spectrum of …

The tempo and mode of evolution of transposable elements as revealed by molecular phylogenies reconstructed from mosquito genomes

CJ Struchiner, E Massad, Z Tu, JMC Ribeiro - Evolution, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Although many mathematical models exist predicting the dynamics of transposable
elements (TEs), there is a lack of available empirical data to validate these models and …