Article
Cycles, chaos, and evolution in virus cultures: a model of defective interfering particles.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 30 Aug 1994
Kirkwood T B, Bangham C R
Abstract excerpt
Defective interfering particles (DIP) are spontaneous deletion mutants of viruses that replicate at the expense of the parent virus. DIP have complex effects on the growth of viruses in vitro, including the establishment of persistent infection, cyclical variation in virus titer, eradication of replicating virus, and rapid evolution of the virus. We show here that a simple mathematical model, based only on...
Topics
- Biological Evolution
- Cells, Cultured
- Defective Viruses
- In Vitro Techniques
- Models, Biological
- Mutation
- Viral Interference
- Virus Replication
- Viruses
