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Molecular basis of fitness loss and fitness recovery in vesicular stomatitis virus.
Journal of molecular biology - 1 Oct 2004
Novella I S, Ebendick-Corpus B E
Abstract excerpt
Viral populations subjected to repeated genetic bottleneck accumulate deleterious mutations in a process known as Muller's ratchet. Asexual viruses, such as vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) can recover from Muller's ratchet by replication with large effective population sizes. However, mutants with a history of bottleneck transmissions often show decreased adaptability when compared to non-bottlenecked...
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