Progress and challenges in virus genomic epidemiology

V Hill, C Ruis, S Bajaj, OG Pybus, MUG Kraemer - Trends in Parasitology, 2021 - cell.com
Genomic epidemiology, which links pathogen genomes with associated metadata to
understand disease transmission, has become a key component of outbreak response …

Human outbreaks of a novel reassortant Oropouche virus in the Brazilian Amazon region

FG Naveca, TAP de Almeida, V Souza, V Nascimento… - Nature Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Brazilian western Amazon is experiencing its largest laboratory-confirmed
Oropouche virus (OROV) outbreak, with more than 6,300 reported cases between 2022 and …

Relax, keep walking—a practical guide to continuous phylogeographic inference with BEAST

S Dellicour, MS Gill, NR Faria… - Molecular Biology …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Spatially explicit phylogeographic analyses can be performed with an inference framework
that employs relaxed random walks to reconstruct phylogenetic dispersal histories in …

Spatiotemporal invasion dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B. 1.1. 7 emergence

MUG Kraemer, V Hill, C Ruis, S Dellicour, S Bajaj… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Understanding the causes and consequences of the emergence of severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants of concern is crucial to pandemic control yet …

Temporal signal and the phylodynamic threshold of SARS-CoV-2

S Duchene, L Featherstone… - Virus …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The ongoing SARS-CoV-2 outbreak marks the first time that large amounts of genome
sequence data have been generated and made publicly available in near real time. Early …

The episodic resurgence of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5 virus

R Xie, KM Edwards, M Wille, X Wei, SS Wong, M Zanin… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 activity has intensified globally since 2021,
increasingly causing mass mortality in wild birds and poultry and incidental infections in …

Context-specific emergence and growth of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant

JT McCrone, V Hill, S Bajaj, RE Pena, BC Lambert… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The SARS-CoV-2 Delta (Pango lineage B. 1.617. 2) variant of concern spread
globally, causing resurgences of COVID-19 worldwide,. The emergence of the Delta variant …

Phylogeographic analysis of the Bantu language expansion supports a rainforest route

E Koile, SJ Greenhill, DE Blasi… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The Bantu expansion transformed the linguistic, economic, and cultural composition of sub-
Saharan Africa. However, the exact dates and routes taken by the ancestors of the speakers …

A unified genealogy of modern and ancient genomes

AW Wohns, Y Wong, B Jeffery, A Akbari, S Mallick… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The sequencing of modern and ancient genomes from around the world has revolutionized
our understanding of human history and evolution. However, the problem of how best to …

The recovery, interpretation and use of ancient pathogen genomes

S Duchêne, SYW Ho, AG Carmichael, EC Holmes… - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
The ability to sequence genomes from ancient biological material has provided a rich source
of information for evolutionary biology and engaged considerable public interest. Although …