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Investigating the (co)evolution of reassorting influenza B lineages.
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PB1-PB2-HA complexes over time. #32

Closed evogytis closed 10 years ago

evogytis commented 10 years ago

It seems that most of the mixed PB1-PB2-HA complexes are found earlier in the tree, closer to the root, and become less frequent as time goes on. Is this worth expanding upon?

evogytis commented 10 years ago

Kind of make a point about this on p13.: "We note that in all cases the genome constellations of these reassortants were not fixed in the influenza B population and the more recent B/Waikato/6/2005-like reassortants persisted for a much shorter period of time (5 months versus 4 years), suggestive of declining PB1+2/HA reassortant fitness over time."

I suspect this sentence might've been lost in the lengthy discussion.