Influenza A virus (IAV), a highly infectious respiratory pathogen, has continued to be a
significant threat to global public health. To complete their life cycle, influenza viruses have …

In 1918, a strain of influenza A virus caused a human pandemic resulting in the deaths of 50
million people. A century later, with the advent of sequencing technology and corresponding …

We present an r package, ggtree, which provides programmable visualization and
annotation of phylogenetic trees. ggtree can read more tree file formats than other softwares …

Data Integration, Manipulation and Visualization of Phylogenetic Trees introduces and
demonstrates data integration, manipulation and visualization of phylogenetic trees using a …

Asia is considered an important source of influenza A virus (IAV) pandemics, owing to large,
diverse viral reservoirs in poultry and swine. However, the zoonotic origins of the 2009 …

How virulence evolves after a virus jumps to a new host species is central to disease
emergence. Our current understanding of virulence evolution is based on insights drawn …

Background The avian influenza A H7N9 virus has caused infections in human beings in
China since 2013. A large epidemic in 2016–17 prompted concerns that the epidemiology of …

H7N9 influenza viruses were first isolated in 2013 and continue to cause human infections.
H7N9 infections represent an ongoing public health threat that has resulted in 1344 cases …

Constant surveillance of live poultry markets (LPMs) is currently the best way to predict and
identify emerging avian influenza viruses (AIVs) that pose a potential threat to public health …

The study of virus disease emergence, whether it can be predicted and how it might be
prevented, has become a major research topic in biomedicine. Here we show that efforts to …