Independent repeated mutations within the alphaviruses Ross River virus and Barmah Forest virus indicates convergent evolution and past positive selection in ancestral populations despite ongoing purifying selection

Author(s):

Alyssa T. Pyke, Daniel J. Wilson, Alice Michie, John S. Mackenzie, Allison Imrie, Jane Cameron, Stephen L. Doggett, John Haniotis, Lara J. Herrero, Leon Caly, Stacey E. Lynch, Peter T. Mee, Eugene T. Madzokere, Ana L. Ramirez, Devina Paramitha, Jody Hobson-Peters, David W. Smith, Richard Weir, Mitchell Sullivan, Julian Druce, Lorna Melville, Jennifer Robson, Robert Gibb, Andrew F. Van Den Hurk, Sebastian Duchene

Details:

Virus Evolution, Volume 10, Issue 1, 2024-01-01, Article number veae080

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Affiliations:

• James Cook University
• Queensland Government
• UWA Medical School
• The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
• AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience
• The Faculty of Health Sciences
• Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology
• Griffith University
• The University of Western Australia
• The University of Queensland
• Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital
• University of Oxford
• The Jackson Laboratory
• Nuffield Department of Medicine
• Royal Melbourne Hospital
• Westmead Hospital
• Institut Pasteur, Paris
• Berrimah Veterinary Laboratories