Evolutionary BiologyMolecular Biology and EvolutionPeer-reviewed
Navigating a fine balance: point-mutant cheater viruses disrupt the viral replication cycle
Moran Meir, Arielle Kahn, Carmel Farage…·Adi Stern
The paper identifies point-mutant cheater viruses in MS2 bacteriophage that disrupt the replication cycle with dual defects and advantages, and shows helper mutations often co-occur nearby.