title: Origins of human virus diversity.
abstract: The diverse consequences of different viral infections on the human population reflect both the history of their origins and the nature of their ongoing evolution. Advances in the ease of finding and characterizing viral genome sequences are having a major impact on our understanding of the diversity of human viruses and of their relatives infecting other species.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Genetics, University of Nottingham, Queens Medical Centre, NG7 2UH, Nottingham, United Kingdom. paul@evol.nott.ac.uk
authors.forename: Paul M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Sharp
mesh_terms: D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D014644:Genetic Variation; D016679:Genome, Viral; D006801:Humans; D014777:Virus Diseases / Q000821:virology*; D014780:Viruses / Q000235:genetics*