Outstanding questions in 2002

Outstanding questions about influenza ecology and evolution, highlighted in Box 1 of the TREE review by Earn, Dushoff and Levin (2002).

In spite of considerable progress in understanding the cellular and molecular biology of flu viruses and recent advances in phylogenetics, some of the most basic ecological and evolutionary questions about the flu remain.
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