A Selective Advantage for Conservative Viruses
种群与进化
2009-11-10 v1 软凝聚态物质
摘要
In this letter we study the full semi-conservative treatment of a model for the co-evolution of a virus and an adaptive immune system. Regions of viability are calculated for both conservatively and semi-conservatively replicating viruses interacting with a realistic semi-conservatively replicating immune system. The conservative virus is found to have a selective advantage in the form of an ability to survive in regions with a wider range of mutation rates than its semi-conservative counterpart. This may help explain the existence of a rich range of viruses with conservatively replicating genomes, a trait which is found nowhere else in nature.
引用
@article{arxiv.q-bio/0401022,
title = {A Selective Advantage for Conservative Viruses},
author = {Yisroel Brumer and Eugene I. Shakhnovich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:q-bio/0401022},
year = {2009}
}
备注
4 pages, 2 figures