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H5N1 Virus Evolution in Europe—An Updated Overview

Since its emergence in South East Asia in 2003, Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) A/H5N1 has reportedly caused outbreaks in poultry and/or wild birds in 62 countries, of which 24 were in Europe. Interestingly, out of the many genetic clades circulating in Asia, the westward spread of HPAI A/H5N1 to Central Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Africa was dominated by one single clade, namely...

Updated Phylogenetic Analysis of Polyomavirus-Host Co- Evolution

Phylogenetic analysis of the mammalian and avian polyomaviruses was performed using the most complete set of publicly available polyomavirus genome sequences to date, including the newly discovered MW polyomavirus. There is no evidence for host-switching between mammalian and avian polyomaviruses, but there is extensive evidence for host-switching among mammalian polyomaviruses. Comparative gen...

Recent advances in differential evolution - An updated survey

Differential Evolution (DE) is arguably one of the most powerful and versatile evolutionary optimizers for the continuous parameter spaces in recent times. Almost 5 years have passed since the first comprehensive survey article was published on DE by Das and Suganthan in 2011. Several developments have been reported on various aspects of the algorithm in these 5 years and the research on and wi...

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ODD Updated

An update to Volker Grimm and colleagues' Overview, Design concepts and Details (ODD) protocol for documenting individual and agent based models (I/ABM) has recently been published in Ecological Modelling. This renames the 'State variables and scales' element to 'Entities, state variables and scales', and the 'Input' element to 'Input data', introduces two new Design concepts ('Basic principles...