West Nile virus spread in Europe: Phylogeographic pattern analysis and key drivers.

Authors:
Lu L; Zhang F; Oude Munnink BB; Munger E; Sikkema RS and 17 more

Journal:
PLoS Pathog

Publication Year: 2024

DOI:
10.1371/journal.ppat.1011880

PMCID:
PMC10810478

PMID:
38271294

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Full Title: PLoS Pathog

Abbreviation: PLoS Pathog

Country: Unknown

Publisher: Unknown

Language: N/A

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Subject Category: Microbiology

Available in Europe PMC: Yes

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"sequences have been submitted to genbank with accession ids op561452-op561459 op762592-op762597 ( s1 table ). other data including source data beast xml files tree files detailed results of discrete trait transmissions analyses and risk factor analyses as well as r code used for the analyses are available via figshare at link https://doi org/10 6084/m9 figshare 21444783 .; other data including source data beast xml files tree files detailed results of discrete trait transmissions analyses and risk factor analyses as well as r code used for the analyses are available via figshare at link https://doi org/10 6084/m9 figshare 21444783 . additionally the associated q statistic consistently exhibits a positive value of over 90% ( fig 7 and s5 table and s1 data ).; the data from the time-scaled phylogenetic mcc tree is overlayed using the author's own custom r code which makes use of r package ape ( https://cran r-project org/web/packages/ape/index html ) (gif) click here for additional data file s1 text (docx) click here for additional data file s1 table (docx) click here for additional data file s2 table (docx) click here for additional data file s3 table (docx) click here for additional data file s4 table (docx) click here for additional data file s5 table (docx) click here for additional data file s1 data (xlsx) click here for additional data file s1 fig the definition for each predictor is shown in the ( s2 table ). file s5 table (docx) click here for additional data file s1 data (xlsx"

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"other data including source data beast xml files tree files detailed results of discrete trait transmissions analyses and risk factor analyses as well as r code used for the analyses are available via figshare at link https://doi org/10 6084/m9 figshare 21444783 .; other data including source data beast xml files tree files detailed results of discrete trait transmissions analyses and risk factor analyses as well as r code used for the analyses are available via figshare at link https://doi org/10 6084/m9 figshare 21444783 ."

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"The authors have declared that no competing interests exist."

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"This work is supported by European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant No. 874735 (VEO). LL, SL and BBS are additionally supported by Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) programme grants to Roslin Institute (Award Numbers BBS/E/D/20002173 and BB/CCG1780/1). MPGK is additionally funded by the Royal Academy of Sciences, NL, Stevin grant. A Papa is additionally supported by the EWSMD project (code 0238/5030131) in the frame of the Operational Program Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation 2014–2020 and by EMPROS project (code 02070). The National Reference centre for Arboviruses is supported by the National Public Health Organization in Greece. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."

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