Evolving views of viral evolution: towards an evolutionary biology of viruses.

Abstract excerpt

Despite considerable interest in viral evolution, at least among virologists, viruses are rarely considered from the same evolutionary vantage point as other organisms. Early work of necessity emphasized phenotype and phenotypic variation (and therefore arguably was more oriented towards the broader biological and ecological perspectives). More recent work (essentially since the development of molecular evolution...

Topics

• Biological Evolution
• History, 20th Century
• Molecular Biology
• Mutation
• Phenotype
• Virology
• Viruses