Article
Genetic bottlenecks and population passages cause profound fitness differences in RNA viruses.
Journal of virology - 1 Jan 1993
Clarke D K, Duarte E A, Moya A, Elena S F, Domingo E, Holland J
Abstract excerpt
Repeated clone-to-clone (genetic bottleneck) passages of an RNA phage and vesicular stomatitis virus have been shown previously to result in loss of fitness due to Muller's ratchet. We now demonstrate that Muller's ratchet also operates when genetic bottleneck passages are carried out at 37 rather than 32 degrees C. Thus, these fitness losses do not depend on growth of temperature-sensitive (ts) mutants at...
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