Ecological connectivity shapes quasispecies structure of RNA viruses in an Antarctic lake

• Published in: Molecular Ecology
• Main Authors: López-Bueno, Alberto, Rastrojo, Alberto, Peiró-Pastor, Ramón, Arenas, Miguel, Alcamí, Antonio
• Other Authors: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Blackwell Publishing 2015
• Subjects: Metagenomics; Picornavirales; Quasispecies; RNA; Virus; Ecological connectivity; Antarctica; Antarctic; Livingston Island; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/133635; https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13321; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003329

© 2015 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. RNA viruses exist as complex mixtures of genotypes, known as quasispecies, where the evolution potential resides in the whole community of related genotypes. Quasispecies structure and dynamics have been studied in detail for virus infecting animals and plants but r...