Bats reveal the true power of influenza A virus adaptability

Kevin Ciminski; Florian Pfaff; Martin Beer; Martin Schwemmle

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1008384

Bats reveal the true power of influenza A virus adaptability

PLoS Pathog. 2020 Apr 16;16(4):e1008384. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1008384. eCollection 2020 Apr.

Authors

Kevin Ciminski^{1

2}, Florian Pfaff³, Martin Beer³, Martin Schwemmle^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Virology, Medical Center-University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
² Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
³ Institute of Diagnostic Virology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Greifswald, Germany.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adaptation, Biological*
Animals
Chiroptera / virology*
Disease Reservoirs / virology*
Evolution, Molecular*
Humans
Influenza A virus / pathogenicity*
Influenza, Human / epidemiology*
Influenza, Human / virology
Orthomyxoviridae Infections / epidemiology
Orthomyxoviridae Infections / veterinary*
Orthomyxoviridae Infections / virology
Selection, Genetic
Viral Proteins / metabolism

Substances

Viral Proteins

Grants and funding

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The work was funded by grants from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) to MS (SCHW 632/17-2) and MB (BE 5187/4-2) (https://www.dfg.de/).