RNA virus populations as quasispecies - PubMed (original) (raw)
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RNA virus populations as quasispecies
J J Holland et al. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol. 1992.
Abstract
RNA virus mutation frequencies generally approach maximum tolerable levels, and create complex indeterminate quasispecies populations in infected hosts. This usually favors extreme rates of evolution, although periods of relative stasis or equilibrium, punctuated by rapid change may also occur (as for other life forms). Because complex quasispecies populations of RNA viruses arise probabilistically and differentially in every host, their compositions and exact roles in disease pathogenesis are indeterminate and their directions of evolution, and the nature and timing of "new" virus outbreaks are unpredictable.
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