title: Genome-scale phylogenetic analyses of chikungunya virus reveal independent emergences of recent epidemics and various evolutionary rates.
abstract: Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), a mosquito-borne alphavirus, has traditionally circulated in Africa and Asia, causing human febrile illness accompanied by severe, chronic joint pain. In Africa, epidemic emergence of CHIKV involves the transition from an enzootic, sylvatic cycle involving arboreal mosquito vectors and nonhuman primates, into an urban cycle where peridomestic mosquitoes transmit among humans. In Asia, however, CHIKV appears to circulate only in the endemic, urban cycle. Recently, CHIKV emerged into the Indian Ocean and the Indian subcontinent to cause major epidemics. To examine patterns of CHIKV evolution and the origins of these outbreaks, as well as to examine whether evolutionary rates that vary between enzootic and epidemic transmission, we sequenced the genomes of 40 CHIKV strains and performed a phylogenetic analysis representing the most comprehensive study of its kind to date. We inferred that extant CHIKV strains evolved from an ancestor that existed within the last 500 years and that some geographic overlap exists between two main enzootic lineages previously thought to be geographically separated within Africa. We estimated that CHIKV was introduced from Africa into Asia 70 to 90 years ago. The recent Indian Ocean and Indian subcontinent epidemics appear to have emerged independently from the mainland of East Africa. This finding underscores the importance of surveillance to rapidly detect and control African outbreaks before exportation can occur. Significantly higher rates of nucleotide substitution appear to occur during urban than during enzootic transmission. These results suggest fundamental differences in transmission modes and/or dynamics in these two transmission cycles.
authors.affiliation: University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Blvd., Galveston, TX 77555-0609. sweaver@utmb.edu.
authors.forename: Sara M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Volk
authors.forename: Rubing
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Konstantin A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Tsetsarkin
authors.forename: A Paige
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Adams
authors.forename: Tzintzuni I
authors.initials: TI
authors.lastname: Garcia
authors.forename: Amadou A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Sall
authors.forename: Farooq
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Nasar
authors.forename: Amy J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Schuh
authors.forename: Edward C
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Holmes
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Higgs
authors.forename: Payal D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Maharaj
authors.forename: Aaron C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Brault
authors.forename: Scott C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Weaver
mesh_terms: D018354:Alphavirus Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000821:virology; D000818:Animals; D002646:Chikungunya virus / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D016679:Genome, Viral; D005838:Genotype; D005843:Geography; D006801:Humans; D017720:Molecular Epidemiology; D010802:Phylogeny; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000235:genetics*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D012367:RNA, Viral
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