A Branching Process for Virus Survival
Probability
2011-09-26 v1 Populations and Evolution
Abstract
Quasispecies theory predicts that there is a critical mutation probability above which a viral population will go extinct. Above this threshold the virus loses the ability to replicate the best adapted genotype, leading to a population composed of low replicating mutants that is eventually doomed. We propose a new branching model that shows that this is not necessarily so. That is, a population composed of ever changing mutants may survive.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1109.5124,
title = {A Branching Process for Virus Survival},
author = {J. Theodore Cox and Rinaldo B. Schinazi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.5124},
year = {2011}
}