Article
Drastic fitness loss in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 upon serial bottleneck events.
Journal of virology - 1 Apr 1999
Yuste E, Sánchez-Palomino S, Casado C, Domingo E, López-Galíndez C
Abstract excerpt
Muller's ratchet predicts fitness losses in small populations of asexual organisms because of the irreversible accumulation of deleterious mutations and genetic drift. This effect should be enhanced if population bottlenecks intervene and fixation of mutations is not compensated by recombination. To study whether Muller's ratchet could operate in a retrovirus, 10 biological clones were derived from a human...
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