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Host alternation of chikungunya virus increases fitness while restricting population diversity and adaptability to novel selective pressures.
Journal of virology - 1 Jan 2011
Coffey Lark L, Vignuzzi Marco
Abstract excerpt
The mechanisms by which RNA arboviruses, including chikungunya virus (CHIKV), evolve and maintain the ability to infect vertebrate and invertebrate hosts are poorly understood. To understand how host specificity shapes arbovirus populations, we studied CHIKV populations passaged alternately betwe...
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