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Date: January 24, 2012 7:16:42 PM EST
To: Bart Hazes mailto:bha...@ualberta.ca>>
Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] quasispecies
This remark brings to mind a paper published recently by Ariel Fernandez and
Mike Lynch:
Nature 474:502, 2011: Non-adaptive Origins of Inter
On Jan 24, 2012, at 10:31 PM, Bart Hazes wrote:
> For some RNA viruses the rate of mutation is so high that they basically
> sample a flat region of the fitness-landscape. If you could take two
> individual viruses out of this sample to establish two independent infections
> than over time eac
On 12-01-24 11:20 AM, Jacob Keller wrote:
Inspired by the recent post about "quasispecies:"
I have been bothered recently by the following problem: why do species
of genetic uniformity exist at all (or do they?)? This first came up
when I saw a Nature paper describing live bacteria extracted fro
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JPK
> Inspired by the recent post about "quasispecies:"
>
> I have been bothered recently by the following problem: why do species
> of genetic uniformity exist at all (or d
