RNA virus mutations and fitness for survival

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue , 1997, Pages 151-178

  Domingo, E ^a   Holland, J J ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Error threshold; Phenotype; Polymerase fidelity; Quasispecies; Virus evolution

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA VIRUS; SPECIES; SURVIVAL; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME, VIRAL; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA VIRUSES; RNA, VIRAL; VIRUS DISEASES; VIRUS REPLICATION;

RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0030747157     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.51.1.151     Document Type: Review

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