Quantifying In-Host Quasispecies Evolution

What takes decades, centuries or millennia to happen with a natural ecosystem, it takes only days, weeks or months with a replicating viral quasispecies in a host, especially when under treatment. Some methods to quantify the evolution of a quasispecies are introduced and discussed, along with simple simulated examples to help in the interpretation and understanding of the results. The proposed methods treat the molecules in a quasispecies as individuals of competing species in an ecosystem, where the haplotypes are the competing species, and the ecosystem is the quasispecies in a host, and the evolution of the system is quantified by monitoring changes in haplotype frequencies. The correlation between the proposed indices is also discussed, and the R code used to generate the simulations, the data and the plots is provided. The virtues of the proposed indices are finally shown on a clinical case.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:24

Enthalten in:

International journal of molecular sciences - 24(2023), 2 vom: 09. Jan.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Gregori, Josep [VerfasserIn]
Ibañez-Lligoña, Marta [VerfasserIn]
Quer, Josep [VerfasserIn]

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Distributions similarity
Journal Article
Mutagenesis
Quasispecies evolution
Quasispecies fitness partition
Viral treatment

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 24.01.2023

Date Revised 02.02.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/ijms24021301

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM351855467