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ArticleEvolution; international journal of organic evolution2013

Intergenerational phenotypic mixing in viral evolution.

Claude Loverdo, James O Lloyd-Smith

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Article in Evolution; international journal of organic evolution, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Claude LoverdoDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California-Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. loverdo@ucla.edu
James O Lloyd-Smith
University of California, Los Angeles · US

Funding

FIC NIH HHS Y99 TW999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Viral particles (virions) are made of genomic material packaged with proteins, drawn from the pool of proteins in the parent cell. It is well known that when virion concentrations are high, cells can be coinfected with multiple viral strains that can complement each other. Viral genomes can then interact with proteins derived from different strains, in a phenomenon known as phenotypic mixing. But phenotypic mixing is actually far more common: viruses mutate very often, and each time a mutation occurs, the parent cell contains different types of viral genomes. Due to phenotypic mixing, changes in viral phenotypes can be shifted by a generation from the mutations that cause them. In the regime of evolutionary invasion and escape, when mutations are crucial for the virus to survive, this timing can have a large influence on the probability of emergence of an adapted strain. Modeling the dynamics of viral evolution in these contexts thus requires attention to the mutational mechanism and the determinants of fitness.

Indexed as

Evolution, MolecularModels, GeneticMutationPhenotypeAdaptation, BiologicalGenetic FitnessGenome, ViralTime FactorsVirusesVirus Replication

Identifiers

PMID23730772
PMCPMC3676872
OpenAlexW2143545316

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