Only influenza A viruses infect nonhuman hosts, and a reassortment of genes can occur ... Although the basic biology and genetics of influenza viruses are fairly well understood, heading off ...

With each replication comes the possibility for genetic reassortment and mutations — basically for changes to the virus’s structure that could alter its characteristics. Those changes could ...

In the present work, the idea of aneuploidy-catalyzed reassortment as the epigenetic ... As all of the cells studied have an otherwise identical genetic background, any differences in mutation ...