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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2003

Resistance of virus to extinction on bottleneck passages: study of a decaying and fluctuating pattern of fitness loss.

Ester Lázaro, Cristina Escarmís, Juan Pérez-Mercader, Susanna C Manrubia, Esteban Domingo

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers.

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46 citing papers in PubMed, 107 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Ester LázaroCentro de Astrobiología (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial), Associated with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Astrobiology Institute, Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, Spain.
Cristina Escarmís
Juan Pérez-Mercader
Susanna C Manrubia
Esteban Domingo
Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa · ESCentro de Astrobiología · ESConsejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas · ES

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

RNA viruses display high mutation rates and their populations replicate as dynamic and complex mutant distributions, termed viral quasispecies. Repeated genetic bottlenecks, which experimentally are carried out through serial plaque-to-plaque transfers of the virus, lead to fitness decrease (measured here as diminished capacity to produce infectious progeny). Here we report an analysis of fitness evolution of several low fitness foot-and-mouth disease virus clones subjected to 50 plaque-to-plaque transfers. Unexpectedly, fitness decrease, rather than being continuous and monotonic, displayed a fluctuating pattern, which was influenced by both the virus and the state of the host cell as shown by effects of recent cell passage history. The amplitude of the fluctuations increased as fitness decreased, resulting in a remarkable resistance of virus to extinction. Whereas the frequency distribution of fitness in control (independent) experiments follows a log-normal distribution, the probability of fitness values in the evolving bottlenecked populations fitted a Weibull distribution. We suggest that multiple functions of viral genomic RNA and its encoded proteins, subjected to high mutational pressure, interact with cellular components to produce this nontrivial, fluctuating pattern.

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AnimalsCell LineCricetinaeFoot-and-Mouth Disease VirusSerial Passage

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PMID12960384
PMCPMC196888
OpenAlexW1991729182

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