title: Split decomposition: a technique to analyze viral evolution.
abstract: A clustering technique allowing a restricted amount of overlapping and based on an abstract theory of coherent decompositions of finite metrics is used to analyze the evolution of foot-and-mouth disease viruses. The emerging picture is compatible with the existence of viral populations with a quasispecies structure and illustrates various forms of evolution of this virus family. In addition, it allows the correlation of these forms with geographic occurrence.
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, University of Valencia, Spain.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dopazo
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dress
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: von Haeseler
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005537:Aphthovirus / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D005075:Biological Evolution; D002417:Cattle; D008433:Mathematics; D008957:Models, Genetic; D009010:Monte Carlo Method; D012703:Serotyping; D014780:Viruses / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*