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Encyclopedia: Reassortment

Reassortment is the mixing of the genetic material of two similar viruses that are infecting the same cell. In particular, reassortment occurs among influenza viruses, whose genomes consist of 8 distinct segments of RNA. These segments act like mini-chromosomes, and each time a flu virus is assembled, it requires one copy of each segment.

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Antigenic shift

influenza literature. In other viral systems, the same process is called reassortment...

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