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Mutagenesis versus inhibition in the efficiency of extinction of foot-and-mouth disease virus.
Journal of virology - 1 Jun 2003
Pariente Nonia, Airaksinen Antero, Domingo Esteban
Abstract excerpt
RNA viruses replicate near the error threshold for maintenance of genetic information, and an increase in mutation frequency during replication may drive RNA viruses to extinction in a process termed lethal mutagenesis. This report addresses the efficiency of extinction (versus escape from extinc...
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