Tracing the origin of virulence

Science. 2023 Dec 15;382(6676):1245-1246. doi: 10.1126/science.adl6094. Epub 2023 Dec 14.

Author

Sebastian Duchene^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Computational Biology, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
² Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.

PMID: 38096277
DOI: 10.1126/science.adl6094

Abstract

Microbial genomes from ancient chickens uncover the drivers of pathogenicity.

MeSH terms

Animals
Chickens* / microbiology
Genome, Viral*
Mardivirus* / genetics
Mardivirus* / pathogenicity
Marek Disease* / history
Marek Disease* / virology
Virulence / genetics