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ReviewRNA (New York, N.Y.)2025

A general and biomedical perspective of viral quasispecies.

Esteban Domingo, Brenda Martínez-González, Pilar Somovilla, Carlos García-Crespo, María Eugenia Soria, Ana Isabel de Ávila, Ignacio Gadea, Celia Perales

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Review in RNA (New York, N.Y.), 2025. 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
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Intra-host diversity of proviral FeLV and clinical outcomes.Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] · 2025
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  4. SARS-CoV-2 mutant spectrum complexity is an epidemiologically evolvable trait.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Esteban DomingoCentro de Biología Molecular "Severo Ochoa" (CSIC-UAM), 28049 Madrid, Spain edomingo@cbm.csic.es celia.perales@cnb.csic.es.ORCID 0000-0002-0573-1676
Brenda Martínez-GonzálezDepartment of Molecular and Cell Biology, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), 28049 Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-4482-5181
Pilar SomovillaCentro de Biología Molecular "Severo Ochoa" (CSIC-UAM), 28049 Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-8368-3641
Carlos García-CrespoCentro de Biología Molecular "Severo Ochoa" (CSIC-UAM), 28049 Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-6561-5389
María Eugenia SoriaCentro de Biología Molecular "Severo Ochoa" (CSIC-UAM), 28049 Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-4719-3351
Ana Isabel de ÁvilaCentro de Biología Molecular "Severo Ochoa" (CSIC-UAM), 28049 Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-9381-0963
Ignacio GadeaDepartment of Clinical Microbiology, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria-Fundación Jiménez Díaz University Hospital, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (IIS-FJD, UAM), 28040 Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-4684-7816
Celia PeralesDepartment of Molecular and Cell Biology, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), 28049 Madrid, Spain edomingo@cbm.csic.es celia.perales@cnb.csic.es.ORCID 0000-0003-1618-1937

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Viral quasispecies refers to the complex and dynamic mutant distributions (also termed mutant spectra, clouds, or swarms) that arise as a result of high error rates during RNA genome replication. The mutant spectrum of individual RNA virus populations is modified by continuous generation of variant genomes, competition and interactions among them, environmental influences, bottleneck events, and bloc transmission of viral particles. Quasispecies dynamics provides a new perspective on how viruses adapt, evolve, and cause disease, and sheds light on strategies to combat them. Molecular flexibility, together with ample opportunity of mutant cloud traffic in our global world, are key ingredients of viral disease emergences, as exemplified by the recent COVID-19 pandemic. In the present article, we present a brief overview of the molecular basis of mutant swarm formation and dynamics, and how the latter relates to viral disease and epidemic spread. We outline future challenges derived of the highly diverse cellular world in which viruses are necessarily installed.

Indexed as

COVID-19QuasispeciesSARS-CoV-2Evolution, MolecularGenome, ViralHumansMutationRNA, ViralVirus ReplicationRNA, Viralcomplexitydefective genomemutationsRNA virusesviral disease

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PMID39689947
PMCPMC11874995

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