recombination

Viral bioinformatics: Recombination

This week€™s addition to the virology toolbox was written by Danielle Coulson and Chris Upton Comparing genomes of viral strains can provide very useful insight into evolutionary relationships. Recombination, defined by Posada et al (2001) as the exchange of genetic information between two nucleotide sequences, is quite common in many viruses. Because recombination accounts for …

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