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Defective or effective? Mutualistic interactions between virus genotypes.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 Nov 2003
López-Ferber Miguel, Simón Oihane, Williams Trevor, Caballero Primitivo
Abstract excerpt
Defective viruses lack genes essential for survival but they can co-infect with complete virus genotypes and use gene products from the complete genotype for their replication and transmission. As such, they are detrimental to the fitness of complete genotypes. Here, we describe a mutualistic int...
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