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Selection, recombination, and G----A hypermutation of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 genomes.
Journal of virology - 1 Apr 1991
Vartanian J P, Meyerhans A, Asjö B, Wain-Hobson S
Abstract excerpt
Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) isolates are genetically so heterogeneous that they must be described in terms of populations of related but distinct genomes called quasispecies. A recent study of the influence of ex vivo culturing on HIV-1 quasispecies demonstrated that usually low-abundance genomes outgrew the more prominent forms. Here it is shown that multiple passages of an HIV-1 isolate on...
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