Respiratory syncytial virus is the second most common cause of infant mortality and a major
cause of morbidity and mortality in older adults (aged >60 years). Efforts to develop a …

Emerging viruses have the potential to impose substantial mortality, morbidity and economic
burdens on human populations. Tracking the spread of infectious diseases to assist in their …

RDP3 is a new version of the RDP program for characterizing recombination events in DNA-sequence
alignments. Among other novelties, this version includes four new recombination …

Throughout the living world, genetic recombination and nucleotide substitution are the
primary processes that create the genetic variation upon which natural selection acts. Just as …

The Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis by Sampling Trees (BEAST) software package has
become a primary tool for Bayesian phylogenetic and phylodynamic inference from genetic …

Brazil currently has one of the fastest-growing severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus
2 (SARS-CoV-2) epidemics in the world. Because of limited available data, assessments …

As a key factor in endemic and epidemic dynamics, the geographical distribution of viruses
has been frequently interpreted in the light of their genetic histories. Unfortunately, inference …

… We found evidence (P < 0.05) of a region in the southwest area of the market where live
mammals were for sale (Fig. 4B). Although environmental sampling of the market was …

… In order to evaluate model fit and calculate BFs, the normalization constant or marginal
likelihood p(Y|M), which measures the average fit of a model to the data, is of primary importance. …

There are outstanding evolutionary questions on the recent emergence of human coronavirus
SARS-CoV-2 including the role of reservoir species, the role of recombination and its time …