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statistical phylogeography of influenza A H5N1 by Wallace, Robert G, HoDac, HoangMinh, Lathrop, Richard H, Fitch, Walter M

“…The geographic diffusion of highly pathogenic influenza A H5N1 has largely been traced from the perspective of the virus's victims. Birds of a variety of avian…”
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Influenza A H5N1 immigration is filtered out at some international borders by Wallace, Robert G, Fitch, Walter M

“…Geographic spread of highly pathogenic influenza A H5N1, the bird flu strain, appears a necessary condition for accelerating the evolution of a related…”
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A Natural Classification of the Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Class of Transcription Factors by Atchley, William R., Fitch, Walter M.

“…A natural (evolutionary) classification is provided for 242 basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) motifcontaining proteins. Phylogenetic analyses of amino acid…”
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Predicting the Evolution of Human Influenza A by Bush, Robin M., Bender, Catherine A., Subbarao, Kanta, Cox, Nancy J., Fitch, Walter M.

“…Eighteen codons in the HA1 domain of the hemagglutinin genes of human influenza A subtype H3 appear to be under positive selection to change the amino acid…”
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Phylodynamic Analysis of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 in Distinct Brain Compartments Provides a Model for the Neuropathogenesis of AIDS by SALEMI, Marco, LAMERS, Susanna L, YU, Stephanie, DE OLIVEIRA, T, FITCH, Walter M, MCGRATH, Michael S

“…Article Usage Stats Services JVI Citing Articles Google Scholar PubMed Related Content Social Bookmarking CiteULike Delicious Digg Facebook Google+ Mendeley…”
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Long Term Trends in the Evolution of H(3) HA1 Human Influenza Type A by Fitch, Walter M., Bush, Robin M., Bender, Catherine A., Cox, Nancy J.

“…We have studied the HA1 domain of 254 human influenza A(H3N2) virus genes for clues that might help identify characteristics of hemagglutinins (HAs) of…”
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Effects of Passage History and Sampling Bias on Phylogenetic Reconstruction of Human Influenza A Evolution by Bush, Robin M., Smith, Catherine B., Cox, Nancy J., Fitch, Walter M.

“…In this paper we determine the extent to which host-mediated mutations and a known sampling bias affect evolutionary studies of human influenza A. Previous…”
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Systematics and the origin of species: An introduction by Hey, Jody, Fitch, Walter M, Ayala, Francisco J

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Ecological factors rather than temporal factors dominate the evolution of vesicular stomatitis virus by Rodriguez, L.L. (Universidad Nacional, Heredia, Costa Rica.), Fitch, W.M, Nichol, S.T

“…Vesicular stomatitis New Jersey virus (VSV-NJ) is a rhabdovirus that causes economically important disease in cattle and other domestic animals in endemic…”
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Gene Trees and the Origins of Inbred Strains of Mice by Atchley, William R., Fitch, Walter M.

“…Extensive data on genetic divergence among 24 inbred strains of mice provide an opportunity to examine the concordance of gene trees and species trees,…”
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Molecular Evolution of the MyoD Family of Transcription Factors by Atchley, W R, Fitch, W M, Bronner-Fraser, M

“…Myogenesis in skeletal muscle is a cascade of developmental events whose initiation involves the MyoD family of transcription factors. Evolutionary analyses of…”
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Evolution of Human Influenza A Viruses over 50 Years: Rapid, Uniform Rate of Change in NS Gene by Buonagurio, Deborah A., Nakada, Susumu, Parvin, Jeffrey D., Krystal, Mark, Palese, Peter, Fitch, Walter M.

“…Variation in influenza A viruses was examined by comparison of nucleotide sequences of the NS gene (890 bases) of 15 human viruses isolated over 53 years (1933…”
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Different epidemic potentials of the HIV-1B and C subtypes by Salemi, Marco, de Oliveira, Tulio, Soares, Marcelo A, Pybus, Oliver, Dumans, Ana T, Vandamme, Anne-Mieke, Tanuri, Amilcar, Cassol, Sharon, Fitch, Walter M

“…HIV, the cause of AIDS in humans, is characterized by great genetic heterogeneity. In particular, HIV-1 group M subtypes are responsible for most of the…”
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Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus sequence characteristics and evolutionary rate estimate from maximum likelihood analysis by Salemi, Marco, Fitch, Walter M, Ciccozzi, Massimo, Ruiz-Alvarez, Maria Jose, Rezza, Giovanni, Lewis, Martha J

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On the Problem of Discovering the Most Parsimonious Tree by Fitch, Walter M.

“…The problem of discovering the most parsimonious tree is defined in terms of a set of linearly arrayed sequences. Simplifications are introduced to reduce the…”
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Listening to viral tongues: comparing viral trees using a stochastic context-free grammar by Rzhetsky, Andrey, Fitch, Walter M

“…We suggest a probabilistic method for comparing the topological features of large phylogenetic trees. Using this method, we demonstrate that a stochastic…”
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Networks and viral evolution by Fitch, W M

“…In studying population data, it is common to have many equally possible parsimonious trees. This has caused representational problems, all of which have been…”
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Glycoprotein evolution of vesicular stomatitis virus New Jersey by Nichol, S T, Rowe, J E, Fitch, W M

“…A T1 ribonuclease fingerprinting study of a large number of virus isolates had previously demonstrated that considerable genetic variability existed among…”
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Myc and Max: Molecular Evolution of a Family of Proto-Oncogene Products and Their Dimerization Partner by Atchley, William R., Fitch, Walter M.

“…The myc gene family encodes a group of transcription factors that regulate cell proliferation and differentiation. These genes are widely studied because of…”
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PHYLOGENIES CONSTRAINED BY THE CROSSOVER PROCESS AS ILLUSTRATED BY HUMAN HEMOGLOBINS AND A THIRTEEN-CYCLE, ELEVEN-AMINO-ACID REPEAT IN HUMAN APOLIPOPROTEIN A-I by Fitch, Walter M

“…Examination of human apolipoprotein A-I revealed a segment of eleven amino acids that repeated itself 13 times in succession without any additional intervening…”
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