Hello everyone,
This week we want to look at virus evolution and phylogeny. We will discuss the following paper at journal club: "Viruses' life history: towards a mechanistic basis of a trade-off between survival and reproduction among phages" by Marianne De Paepe and Francois Taddei (2006), PloS Biology 4 (7): e193.
The paper can be found here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0040193 .
Note that there is a mistake in the paper: in the abstract, the mortality rate is described as being negatively correlated with multiplication rate, whereas it is positively correlated. (see http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0040273). If you have any other interesting papers on virus evolution or phylogeny please bring them along.
See you this Thursday at 3:30 pm in Bill's office,
Peter