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David A. Kennedy

Pennsylvania State UniversityORCID 0000-0003-0820-115XUnclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Microbiology· 1 Systems Biology· 1

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Organism:chicken / avian· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Assay:long-read sequencing· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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Alejandro Ortigas-VásqueziD· 1 shared Brandon J SimonyiD· 1 shared Christopher D. BoweniD· 1 shared DANIEL WAYNE RENNERiD· 1 shared MORIAH LOUISE SZPARAiD· 1 shared Susan J. BaigentiD· 1 shared Venugopal NairiD· 1 shared Yaoyao ZhangiD· 1 shared

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MicrobiologyPLoS PathogensPeer-reviewedAug 25, 2025

High-Fidelity Long-Read Sequencing of an Avian Herpesvirus Reveals Extensive Intrapopulation Diversity in Tandem Repeat Regions

Alejandro Ortigas-Vásquez, Christopher D. Bowen, DANIEL WAYNE RENNER…·MORIAH LOUISE SZPARA

The paper uses long-read sequencing to analyze intrapopulation diversity in tandem repeat regions of Mareks disease virus strains, revealing phenotypic links to virulence and attenuation.

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chicken / avianlong-read sequencing

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Systems BiologybioRxivPreprintOct 14, 2024

Spillover rate is not a predictor of host jump risk, but spillover novelty is

Brandon J Simony, David A. Kennedy

The paper shows that spillover rate is not predictive of host jump risk, but spillover novelty is a stronger predictor.

DOI 10.1101/2024.10.14.618291

statistical model

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