The importance of being erroneous

Sebastian Bonhoeffer () and Paul Sniegowski ()
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Sebastian Bonhoeffer: ETH Zürich
Paul Sniegowski: University of Pennsylvania

Nature, 2002, vol. 420, issue 6914, 367-369

Abstract: Viruses must mutate to survive in the face of attack by their host's immune system. A new model suggests that the viral mutation rate is optimized in an evolutionary trade-off between adaptability and genomic integrity.

Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1038/420367a

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