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The Evolutionary Genetics of Emerging Viruses

2009-12-01

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RNA viruses are the main agents of emerging disease. To understand how RNA viruses are able to jump species boundaries and spread in new hosts it is essential to determine the basic processes of evolutionary change in these infectious agents. RNA virus evolution is largely shaped by very high rates of mutation. This, coupled with potentially enormous intra- and interhost population sizes and continual replication,...

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Literature Corpus work: de77058f-0649-59b0-9a75-0365d0b84c34
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.110308.120248

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