Increased evolutionary rate in the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak is due to transient polymorphism and not positive selection
Stephanie J. Spielman, Austin G. Meyer, Claus O. Wilke
The paper challenges claims of rapid Ebola virus evolution during the 2014 outbreak, attributing the apparent increased substitution rate to technical artifacts rather than adaptive evolution.
bioRxiv · Nov 19, 2014 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology