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Epistasis and the adaptability of an RNA virus.
Genetics - 1 Jul 2005
Sanjuán Rafael, Cuevas José M, Moya Andrés, Elena Santiago F
Abstract excerpt
We have explored the patterns of fitness recovery in the vesicular stomatitis RNA virus. We show that, in our experimental setting, reversions to the wild-type genotype were rare and fitness recovery was at least partially driven by compensatory mutations. We compared compensatory adaptation for genotypes carrying (1) mutations with varying deleterious fitness effects, (2) one or two deleterious mutations, and...
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