West Nile Virus Experimental Evolution in vivo and the Trade-off Hypothesis
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West Nile Virus Experimental Evolution in vivo and the Trade-off Hypothesis
In nature, arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) perpetuate through alternating replication in vertebrate and invertebrate hosts. The trade-off hypothesis proposes that these viruses maintain adequate replicative fitness in two disparate hosts in exchange for superior fitness in one host. Releasing the virus from the constraints of a two-host cycle should thus facilitate adaptation to a single ...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Pathogens
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1553-7374
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002335