What is a quasispecies?

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The concept of the quasispecies as a society formed from a clone of an asexually reproducing organism is reviewed. A broad spectrum of mutants is generated that compete one with another. Eventually a steady state is formed where each mutant type is represented according to its fitness and its formation by mutation. This quasispecies has a defined wild type sequence, which is the weighted average of all genotypes...

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