Open Access Research article

The nonadaptive nature of the H1N1 2009 Swine Flu pandemic contrasts with the adaptive facilitation of transmission to a new host

Juwaeriah Abdussamad1,2 and Stéphane Aris-Brosou1,3,4*

1 Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

2 Vellore Institute of Technology University, Vellore, India

3 Center for Advanced Research in Environmental Genomics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

4 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2011, 11:6 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-11-6

Published: 6 January 2011

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The ten reconstructed phylogenetic trees, with branch lengths in units of time (years before 2009).

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The ten reconstructed phylogenetic trees, with branch lengths in units of expected numbers of substitutions per nucleotide site.

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List of the accession numbers of the sequences from the 1180 genomes used in this study.

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PDB files (zipped) containing the three-dimensional models of the protein structures of NA swine (SwineModel.pdb), non-pandemic (NonPandemicModel.pdb) and pandemic human (PandemicModel.pdb).

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