Animation of influenza virus replication
…spread of a new, mutated virus”. It is visually appealing but contains at least one error. If you think you know what it is, post it in the comments below….
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The quasispecies concept
…of a large number of different individual sequences. This variation, which is a consequence of the error prone nature of viral replication, has since been confirmed using other viral systems….
Viral quasispecies and bottlenecks
…the population. Error-prone replication ensures that the members of the new population have many other mutations in their genomes. The type of population selection illustrated above most likely took place…
Influenza A/Mexico/2009 (H1N1) virulence and transmission
…reference to a ‘molecular clock’ in the previous paragraph, having read previous posts on the error-prone nature of RNA virus replication. These approaches allow an estimation of the onset of…
Influenza 101
…influenza virus neuraminidase Release of influenza viral RNA into cells Influenza HA cleavage is required for infectivity RNA Synthesis Influenza viral RNA synthesis The error-prone ways of RNA synthesis The…