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Genome Scale Patterns of Recombination between Coinfecting Vaccinia Viruses
27 Feb 2014
Abstract excerpt
UNLABELLED: Recombination plays a critical role in virus evolution. It helps avoid genetic decline and creates novel phenotypes. This promotes survival, and genome sequencing suggests that recombination has facilitated the evolution of human pathogens, including orthopoxviruses such as variola virus. Recombination can also be used to map genes, but although recombinant poxviruses are easily produced in culture,...
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