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Volume 20, Number 8—August 2014
Research

Global and Local Persistence of Influenza A(H5N1) Virus

Xianbin Li, Zhong Zhang, Ailian Yu, Simon Y. W. Ho, Michael J. Carr, Weimin Zheng, Yanzhou Zhang, Chaodong Zhu1, Fumin Lei1, and Weifeng Shi1Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China (X. Li); Taishan Medical College, Taian, Shandong, China (Z. Zhang, A. Yu, W. Shi); Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (X. Li, W. Zheng, Y. Zhang, C. Zhu, F. Lei); University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (S.Y.W. Ho); University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland (M.J. Carr); 1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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Figure 2

Estimated genealogy of 3,365 highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) viruses sampled during 1996–2012. The maximum a posteriori tree was estimated by using Migrate version 3.3.0 (21,22). Each tip represents a virus sequence. Colors indicate the sampling region, either actual (tips) or estimated (branches).

Figure 2. Estimated genealogy of 3,365 highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) viruses sampled during 1996–2012The maximum a posteriori tree was estimated by using Migrate version 3.3.0 (21,22)Each tip represents a virus sequenceColors indicate the sampling region, either actual (tips) or estimated (branches).

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