For anyone interested in drawing phylogenetic trees, here’s a new free and powerful tree-drawing software application called TreeViewer. Available on Windows/macOS/Linux, it lets you transform phylogenetic trees, add layers, map data to branches, align text, and much more! 👇

NDV-vectored vaccine w 2.3.4.4b H5 HA developed and assessed. Vaxx achieved complete survival against HPAI and NDV challenges and significantly reduced viral shedding in chickens, decreased shedding in ducks. 👉sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The SplitsTree App: interactive analysis and visualization using phylogenetic trees and networks | Nature Methods nature.com/articles/s4159…

#H5N1 virus was detected in dead seals on Tyuleniy Island in eastern Russia, in the Sea of Okhotsk. Viruses isolated from the seals belong to clade 2.3.4.4b and are closely related to viruses detected in the Russian Far East and Japan in 2022–2023. bit.ly/4elyZAF

'Virology—The next fifty years' - a perspective by Eddie Holmes, Felicia Goodrum🇺🇦 and myself in Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Genetic tracing at the Huanan Seafood market further supports an animal origin to #COVID19. Learn more in Cell: cell.com/cell/fulltext/… Michael Worobey Sorbonne Université Florence Débarre Scripps Research Kristian Andersen

A snowman built by vet school students of Konkuk University, Korea 건대수의대 눈사람 수준 🤣

First documented case of H5N1 HPAI in a wild mammal in South Korea: leopard cat. Clustered with clade 2.3.4.4b H5N1 HPAIVs isolated from wild birds in South Korea, 36 mammalian adaptation markers 👉frontiersin.org/journals/veter…

New online! Clinical metagenomics for diagnosis and surveillance of viral pathogens nature.com/articles/s4157…

Easy pipeline to trace reassortment among influenza A viruses. Revealing Reassortment in Influenza A Viruses with TreeSort academic.oup.com/mbe/article/42…

New paper out! The presence of mammalian adaptation markers and high binding affinity of Y280-lineage H9N2 viruses to human-type sialic acid receptor raise a concern on zoonotic potential. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/tb…

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I'm excited to announce the publication of our latest paper in Virus Evolution : "Wild birds drive the introduction, maintenance, and spread of H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b high pathogenicity avian influenza viruses in Spain, 2021–2022". doi.org/10.1093/ve/vea… #influenza #H5N1

1/5 Introducing SimPlot-CL! 🧬 Recombination plays an important role in viral evolution. Similarity plots are a great way to visualize recombination patterns, but generating them across many genomes can be cumbersome. 📂 github.com/hodcroftlab/si…