Using HSV-1 Genome Phylogenetics to Track Past Human Migrations

Aaron W. Kolb; Cécile Ané; Curtis R. Brandt

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0076267

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Using HSV-1 Genome Phylogenetics to Track Past Human Migrations

Aaron W. Kolb,

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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Cécile Ané,

Affiliations Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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Curtis R. Brandt

* E-mail: crbrandt@wisc.edu

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, McPherson Eye Research Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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Using HSV-1 Genome Phylogenetics to Track Past Human Migrations

Aaron W. Kolb,
Cécile Ané,
Curtis R. Brandt

Published: October 16, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0076267

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Posted by PLOS_ONE_Group on 25 Oct 2013 at 23:05 GMT

The following article represents some of the media coverage that has occurred for this paper:

Publication: Bio News Texas
Title: “Texas Asian-Related Herpes Virus Clue To How Viruses Hitchhiked Along Ancient Human Migration Routes”
http://bionews-tx.com/new...

Publication: Bioscience Technology
Title: “Virus Confirms Ancient Human Migration Patterns”
http://www.biosciencetech...

Publication: Infection Control Today
Title: “Hitchhiking Virus Confirms Saga of Ancient Human Migration”
http://www.infectioncontr...

Publication: NBC News Science
Title: “Herpes virus genome traces the ancient path of human migration - NBC News.com”
http://www.nbcnews.com/sc...

Publication: Science 2.0
Title: “Herpes Can Tell The Tale Of Ancient Human Migration”
http://www.science20.com/...

Publication: University of Wisconsin Madison
Title: “Hitchhiking virus confirms saga of ancient human migration (Oct. 21, 2013)”
http://www.news.wisc.edu/...

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Title: “Geneticists Use Herpes to Confirm Ancient Human Migration Routes”
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