Figure 5.
Viruses were transmitted to contact chickens. The parental A(H7N9) virus HK1772 is shown in orange. The parental A(H9N2) viruses :YU335 (a), and BJ16 (b) are shown in red and cyan, respectively. HA(4), NA(6), PB2(1), PB1(2), PA(3), NP(5), M(7), and NS(8) of individual plaques are shown. # represents the number of plaques with the same genotype. In the pie charts, N indicates the total number of plaques. The mean ± SD percent of genotype frequency is shown. New genotypes are shown in different shades of grey.