Timothy B. Stockwell

TL;DR: This comprehensive study illustrates AIV evolutionary dynamics within a multihost ecosystem at a stopover site where three major migratory flyways intersect over a 6-year period and provides a snapshot of how these viruses are linked to global AIV populations.

TL;DR: Evidence of convergent evolution of G gene sequence duplication and fixation over time suggests a potential fitness advantage of RSV with the G sequence duplication, and identifies multiple co-circulating clades ofRSV from both the A and B groups.

TL;DR: This is the first report of finding AIVs of entirely American lineage and Eurasian lineage, as well as reassortant viruses, together in the same geographic location, which demonstrates the importance of the North Atlantic as a corridor for the movement of Aivs between Europe and North America.

TL;DR: This work highlights some key innovations that have come together to nurture the explosive growth that makes a new era of genomics a reality and document how these new approaches have fueled further innovations and discoveries.

TL;DR: Mini-genome replication studies and virus reassortment experiments demonstrated that bat-influenza has very limited genetic and protein compatibility with Type A or Type B influenza viruses, yet it readily reassorts with another divergent bat- influenza virus, suggesting that the bat- Influence lineage may represent a new Genus/Species within the Orthomyxoviridae family.