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Effects of epistasis and recombination between vaccine-escape and virulence alleles on the dynamics of pathogen adaptation.
Nature ecology & evolution - 1 Jun 2022
McLeod David V, Gandon Sylvain
Abstract excerpt
Pathogen adaptation to public health interventions such as vaccination may take tortuous routes and involve multiple mutations at different locations in the pathogen genome, acting on distinct phenotypic traits. Yet how these multi-locus adaptations jointly evolve is poorly understood. Here we consider the joint evolution of two adaptations: pathogen escape from the vaccine-induced immune response and adjustments...
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