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Resistance to extinction of low fitness virus subjected to plaque-to-plaque transfers: diversification by mutation clustering.
Journal of molecular biology - 25 Jan 2002
Escarmís Cristina, Gómez-Mariano Gema, Dávila Mercedes, Lázaro Ester, Domingo Esteban
Abstract excerpt
Plaque-to-plaque transfers of RNA viruses lead to accumulation of mutations and fitness decrease. To test whether continuing plaque-to-plaque transfers would lead to viral extinction, we have subjected several low fitness foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) clones to up to 130 successive plaque transfers, and have analyzed the evolution of plaque titers and genomic nucleotide sequences. No case of viral...
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