Mutant clouds and occupation of sequence space in plant RNA viruses.

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In nature, RNA viruses of plants often must adapt to ever-changing environments in the form of frequent host switches. This would favor a highly diverse population for transmission. However, most viruses that have been studied have been viruses of monocultural crops. In crop viruses, the mutation frequency of individual viral quasispecies varies greatly, both in experiment evolution studies and in populations of...

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