Virus evolution - The importance of being erroneous

被引:33
作者
Bonhoeffer, S [1 ]
Sniegowski, P
机构
[1] Swiss Fed Inst Technol, Dept Environm Sci, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
[2] Univ Penn, Dept Biol, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
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D O I
10.1038/420367a
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Viruses must mutate to survive in the face of attack by their host's immune system. A new model suggests that the viral mutation rate is optimized in an evolutionary trade-off between adaptability and genomic integrity.
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