Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Modelling the role of immunity in reversion of viral antigenic sites
Carmen H. S. Chan, Lloyd P. Sanders, Mark M. Tanaka
The paper models how immunity influences viral antigenic site evolution, finding that RSV-A's higher reversion rates result from faster immunity decay, not higher escape costs.
DOI 10.1016/j.jtbi.2015.12.008