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Fitness ranking of individual mutants drives patterns of epistatic interactions in HIV-1.
PloS one - 31 Mar 2011
Martínez Javier P, Bocharov Gennady, Ignatovich Anna, Reiter Jochen, Dittmar Matthias T, Wain-Hobson Simon, Meyerhans Andreas
Abstract excerpt
Fitness interactions between mutations, referred to as epistasis, can strongly impact evolution. For RNA viruses and retroviruses with their high mutation rates, epistasis may be particularly important to overcome fitness losses due to the accumulation of deleterious mutations and thus could influence the frequency of mutants in a viral population. As human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) resistance to...
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