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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-12-9
pubmed:abstractText
The population dynamics of RNA viruses have an important influence on fitness variation and, in consequence, on the adaptative potential and virulence of this ubiquitous group of pathogens. Earlier work with vesicular stomatitis virus showed that large population transfers were reproducibly associated with fitness increases, whereas repeated transfers from plaque to plaque (genetic bottlenecks) lead to losses in fitness. We demonstrate here that repeated five-plaque to five-plaque passage series yield long-term fitness stability, except for occasional stochastic fitness jumps. Repeated five-plaque passages regularly alternating with two consecutive large population transmissions did not cause fitness losses, but did limit the size of fitness gains that would otherwise have occurred. These results underscore the profound effects of bottleneck transmissions in virus evolution.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0026-8925
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
28
pubmed:volume
252
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
733-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Repeated transfer of small RNA virus populations leading to balanced fitness with infrequent stochastic drift.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0116, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't