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Volume 24, Number 10—October 2018
Research

Molecular Evolution, Diversity, and Adaptation of Influenza A(H7N9) Viruses in China

Jing LuComments to Author , Jayna Raghwani1, Rhys Pryce, Thomas A. Bowden, Julien Thézé, Shanqian Huang, Yingchao Song, Lirong Zou, Lijun Liang, Ru Bai, Yi Jing, Pingping Zhou, Min Kang, Lina Yi, Jie Wu2, Oliver G. Pybus2, and Changwen Ke1Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou, China (J. Lu, Y. Song, L. Zou, L. Liang, R. Bai, Y. Jing, P. Zhou, M. Kang, L. Yi, J. Wu, C. Ke); Guangdong Provincial Institution of Public Health, Guangzhou (J. Lu, P. Zhou, L. Yi); University of Oxford, Oxford, UK (J. Raghwani, R. Pryce, T.A. Bowden, J. Thézé, O.G. Pybus); Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China (S. Huang)

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Figure 2

Genetic evolution and spatial spread of epidemic lineage of influenza A(H7N9) viruses, China, 2013–2017. Bayesian maximum clade credibility tree of the hemagglutinin gene is shown. Black bars to the right of the tree indicate sequences (from waves 4 and 5) from other studies (1,5), and red bars indicate sequences reported in this study from Guangdong Province. Branch colors indicate most probable ancestral locations of each branch. Three major lineages (A, B, and C) of H7N9 viruses were observed

Figure 2. Genetic evolution and spatial spread of epidemic lineage of influenza A(H7N9) viruses, China, 2013–2017. Bayesian maximum clade credibility tree of the hemagglutinin gene is shown. Black bars to the right of the tree indicate sequences (from waves 4 and 5) from other studies (1,5), and red bars indicate sequences reported in this study from Guangdong Province. Branch colors indicate most probable ancestral locations of each branch. Three major lineages (A, B, and C) of H7N9 viruses were observed. Values along branches indicate bootstrap values. Black circles indicate posterior support >0.95. Location posterior support is shown for selected clades. An H7N9 strain closely related to the highly pathogenic H7N9 virus cluster is indicated. HP, highly pathogenic.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

2These senior authors jointly supervised this study.

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