…“superbug” as some researchers had feared. Virologists consider mutation and reassortment to be two distinct phenomena. The mutation rate of the virus is determined by error-prone RNA synthesis. The host…
…error-prone RNA replication. Long before the laboratory-engineered strain circled the globe, mutations would likely occur that restore its ability to undergo reassortment. There is at least one practical use for…
…of Clinical Investigation. *Author Mark Pendergrast and former EIS officer Patrick Moore have reminded me that Gerberding was not a member of this training program. My apologies for the error….
…can be very useful when you need to edit an assembled/annotated sequence for an occasional sequencing error.Figure 1A. Differences between sequences are high-lighted. Blue=nt substitution; Green=nt deletion; Red=nt insertion. Figure…
…was an error, and recommend reverting to the traditional virus name, Ebola virus: Retrospectively, the virus nomenclature in most published articles will then be correct. Likewise, press articles, which almost…
…diversity that is made possible by the error-prone nature of RNA synthesis. Viruses with segmented genome have another mechanism for generating diversity: reassortment (illustrated). An example of the evolutionary importance…
