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Charting changes in a pathogen's genome yields clues about its past and hints about its future

  • Written by Claire Guinat, Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Evolution, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Charting changes in a pathogen's genome yields clues about its past and hints about its futureA virus's genes hold a record of where it's traveled, and when.imaginima/E+ via Getty Images

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