gsgs wrote:
apparantly you think that "virtually" is more than 80%, but won't admit ?!
We have reassortments where the parts are _exactly_ identical
to the segments from the components.
How likely is reassortment, (not "virtirtually ZERO") just two viruses entering
the same cell ,without double-infection - I assume you mean reassortment
of distant strains as I meant above.
HA and NA alone would only show reassortment in one out of 28 pair-combinations, 4%
I didn't "claim" reassortment, rather I did put my subjective probability estimate
thereof at 20%.
Your "more than 80%' quote above ranks with the prior suggestions that Tamiflu resistance in 2008 was due to traveling salesmen, and there was a 20% chance that the 2009 H1N1 pandemic wasn't a pandemic. You are analytically challenged in the area of influenza genetic and evolution.
An 80% identity would be pretty iffy to even make the same serotype. Sub-clade identity is in the 99% and above range. The Air Force HA sequences (1200 BP) were released at Genbank in February, and a comparison of those sequences to teh Chihuahus sequences shows about 6 markers that define the Air Force Chihuahua sub-clade, and 3 markers that define the Chihuahua subclade initailly seen in Mexico, so the identity between the Air Force sequences and Chihuahua is above 99%.
However, the 5 US sequences, including the two with full sequences, are virtually identical to the Chihuahua sequences (as seen in the tandom markers which were found in 13 sequences - 8 from the Chihuahua and 5 from the US), and are in the 99.8%-99.9% range, which is why your 20% probabilty nonsense is BOGUS, and anyone who correctly analyzed at the PUBLIC sequences represented by PA/02/2011 and MD/04/2011 would immediately see.
Thus, after your 20% nonsense has been shown to be demonstrably FALSE but you post the fake "estimate" all over the internet.
Please take your BOGUS numbers elsewhere (the babble boards where some of the readers believe the nonsense you put up). Your fake numbers are beyond annoying (and have been for YEARS).