Reticulate evolution is favoured in influenza niche switching.
Eric J. Ma, Nichola J. Hill, Kyle Yuan, Justin Zabilansky, Jonathan A. Runstadler
The paper shows that reassortment, a reticulate evolutionary mechanism, is more common than mutational drift in influenza virus transmission between different host species, especially when host evolutionary distance increases.
bioRxiv · Mar 22, 2016Ecology