I made this for a science class presentation in eighth grade. My friend TheGreyDuck did the narrating. Please comment if you can and tell me what you liked or what I could do better! Thanks! *UPDATE* 12/4/08 Wow this thing still gets views?! Can’t believe my middle school science video is helping other students and being used by teachers I don’t even know. oO If you’re a teacher using this vide…
Publication Date: 2009 Jun 30 PMID: 19564871 Authors: Pybus, O. G. - Rambaut, A. Journal: Nat Rev Genet
Many organisms that cause infectious diseases, particularly RNA viruses, mutate so rapidly that their evolutionary and ecological behaviours are inextricably linked. Consequently, aspects of the transmission and epidemiology of these pathogens are imprinted on the genetic diversity of their genomes. Large-scale empirical analyses of the evolutionary dynamics of important pathogens are now feasible owing to the increasing availability of pathogen sequence data and the development of new computational and statistical methods of analysis. In this Review, we outline the questions that can be answered using viral evolutionary analysis across a wide range of biological scales.