Effects of spatial competition on the diversity of a quasispecies.

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The diversity harbored by populations of RNA viruses results from high mutation rates, as well as from the characteristics of the environment where they evolve. By means of a simple model for structured quasispecies, we quantify how competition for space among phenotypic types shapes their distribution at the mutation-selection equilibrium. We introduce a general framework to treat this problem and relate...

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