Flu Shows the Power of Diversity

Brigitte E Martin; Christopher B Brooke

doi:10.1016/j.cell.2018.12.017

Flu Shows the Power of Diversity

Cell. 2019 Jan 10;176(1-2):9-10. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.12.017.

Authors

Brigitte E Martin¹, Christopher B Brooke²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
² Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA; Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA. Electronic address: cbrooke@illinois.edu.

PMID: 30633911
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.12.017

Abstract

Morphological variation is a common yet poorly understood feature of influenza virus populations. Vahey and Fletcher reveal that the production of physically and phenotypically heterogeneous particles is an inherent feature of the influenza assembly process that may promote virus survival in challenging environments.

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MeSH terms

Humans
Influenza A virus*
Influenza, Human*