Researchers studying strains of a lethal canine virus and a related human virus believe that the canine virus will open doors to understanding how viruses jump from one species to another.
Newswise features an advance online paper published in the April 2006 issue of the Journal of Virology, in which Laura Shackelton, an HHMI predoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford in England, examined the surprisingly rapid evolution of the B19 erythrovirus, a ubiquitous human parvovirus