Repeated transfer of small RNA virus populations leading to balanced fitness with infrequent stochastic drift

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 252, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 733-738

  Novella, Isabel S ^a   Elena, Santiago F ^b   Moya, Andres ^b   Domingo, Esteban ^c   Holland, John J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c CENTRO DE BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR SEVERO OCHOA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Genetic bottleneck; Quasispecies; Vesicular stomatitis virus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA VIRUS; VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

RNA VIRUSES; VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS;

EID: 0029983967     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02173980     Document Type: Article

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