New virus diseases: visible evolution.

New Perspectives on Ebola Virus Evolution

Since the recent devastating outbreak of Ebola virus disease in western Africa, there has been significant effort to understand the evolution of the deadly virus that caused the outbreak. There has been a considerable investment in sequencing Ebola virus (EBOV) isolates, and the results paint an important picture of how the virus has spread in western Africa. EBOV evolution cannot be understood...

Evolution and immunology of infectious diseases: what's new?

Jean-Baptiste André a, Sunetra Gupta b, Steven Frank c, Michel Tibayrenc d,∗ a Laboratoire Génome, Populations, Interactions, Adaptation UMR 5171, USTL, Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France b Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK c Department of Ecology and Evolutionary, UC Irvine, 321 Steinhaus Hall, Irvine, CA 92697-2525, USA d Genetics and Evolu...

New diagnostic tools of hepatitis virus-related liver diseases. Preface.

Making the Evolution of Graphical Models Visible

With adoption of the UML and other graphical languages by software industry, graphical models became a cornerstone in today’s software development practice. As other artefacts such as program source code, graphical models evolve over time and are, thus, put regularily under version control. In order to deeply understand the role an artefact plays within a project, it is sometimes helpful to rev...

introduction of rna virus evolution

lots of viruses, in particular rna viruses, have high mutation rates and relatively short generation times. particle stability during infection in nature or in laboratory triggers the evolutionary event toward different mechanisms such as genome segmentation, point mutation and  recombination. the frequency of mutant genomes increase and modify  the previous distribution, which, consequently, l...