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Biological effect of Muller's Ratchet: distant capsid site can affect picornavirus protein processing.
Journal of virology - 1 Jul 2009
Escarmís Cristina, Perales Celia, Domingo Esteban
Abstract excerpt
Repeated bottleneck passages of RNA viruses result in accumulation of mutations and fitness decrease. Here, we show that clones of foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) subjected to bottleneck passages, in the form of plaque-to-plaque transfers in BHK-21 cells, increased the thermosensitivity of th...
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