Questions tagged [retrovirus]
Retroviruses are single-stranded RNA viruses that reverse-transcribe their genome into DNA that is then integrated into the host genome.
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How does HIV mutate into other strains while keeping their virulent phenotype?
How does a virus like HIV mutate into so many strains, and yet all of them are harmful to our immune system? What gives this virus the ability to mutate so efficiently?
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Why does increased humidity decrease coronavirus "survival"?
All news I can see scientist telling that the SARS-CoV-2 virus survive more in cold and dry weather. I can understand cold as hot weather will desiccate virus, but why dry weather.
Would not dry ...
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Mutation rate in viruses
Mutation rate is a phenotypic trait that evolves. The process of evolution of such kind of traits are often referred to as evolvability. I am wondering about the evolution of the mutation rates in ...
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Since RNA viruses and retroviruses all have high mutation rates, why do only a few viruses have the virtue of variability?
We have been taught that it's difficult to make vaccines to influenza, HIV and HCV because they lack the proofreading mechanism, hence have high mutation rates. But most RNA viruses and retroviruses ...
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What book teaches you about endogenous retroviruses [closed]
I'm interest in ERVs as evidence for evolution and want to learn more about them.