Advantage of the high genetic diversity in RNA viruses

Future Virology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 35-38

  Biebricher, Christof K ^a   Domingo, Esteban ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b CENTRO DE BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR SEVERO OCHOA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Evolution; Mutation rate; Poliovirus; Quasi species; Sequence diversity; Tropism

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOSIDE ANALOG; RIBAVIRIN; RNA; TRANS ACTING FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; RNA VIRUS; THERMODYNAMICS; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

POLIOVIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 34249277103     PISSN: 17460794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/17460794.2.1.35     Document Type: Article

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