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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Mol Evol. 2009 Dec 30;70(1):98–105. doi: 10.1007/s00239-009-9312-8

Fig. 4.

Fig. 4

Schematic representation of the population genetic structure and evolution of the internal gene segments of AIV, largely determined by a process of genetic hitchhiking to selectively advantageous variants in the HA and NA proteins, followed by frequent reassortment. Different colors represent different HA (or NA) alleles, whereas alleles of internal segments are shown as different shapes