Viral quasispecies

Layer 3 — Biologyin the Virology subtree

RNA-virus population concept (Eigen): swarm of related variants generated by high mutation rate (~10⁻⁴-10⁻⁵ per base). Natural-selection unit = quasispecies, not single genome. Relevance: HIV, HCV, SARS-CoV-2.

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