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Dynamics of deletion genotypes in an experimental insect virus population.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 Apr 2006
Simón Oihane, Williams Trevor, Caballero Primitivo, López-Ferber Miguel
Abstract excerpt
Defective viruses, that are deficient in certain essential genes, are maintained in the population by trans-complementation, exploiting the gene products of complete genotypes in co-infected cells. This process becomes prevalent only when cells are frequently infected by several virus particles, and only then will the fitness of defective viruses be subjected to frequency-dependent selection. Deletion variants...
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