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Emergency Services of Viral RNAs: Repair and Remodeling.
Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR - 1 Jun 2018
Agol Vadim I, Gmyl Anatoly P
Abstract excerpt
Reproduction of RNA viruses is typically error-prone due to the infidelity of their replicative machinery and the usual lack of proofreading mechanisms. The error rates may be close to those that kill the virus. Consequently, populations of RNA viruses are represented by heterogeneous sets of genomes with various levels of fitness. This is especially consequential when viruses encounter various bottlenecks and...
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