Hello everyone,

This Friday at journal club we will discuss the following paper (which
is the third paper in our series of three meetings on viral evolution):

* "The fittest versus the flattest: experimental confirmation of the
quasispecies effect with subviral pathogens" by F.M. Codoner, J.-A.
Daros, R.V. Sole and S.F. Elena, PLoS Pathogens 2, 1187-1193 (2006)
(http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.0020136).

Some other interesting papers are:

* "Response on foot-and-mouth disease virus to increased mutagenesis:
influence of viral load and fitness in loss of
infectivity" by S. Sierra, M. Davila, P.R. Lowenstein and E. Domingo, J.
Virology 74, 8316-23 (2000) (http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/reprint/74/18/8316).

* "High nucleotide substitution error frequencies in clonal pools of
vesicular stomatis virus" by D.A. Steinhauer, J. Carlos de la Torre and
J.J. Holland, J. Virology 63, 2063-71 (1989)
(http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/reprint/63/5/2063).

* "Extreme heterogeneity in populations of vesicular stomatis virus" by
D.A. Steinhauer, J. Carlos de la Torre, E. Meier and J.J. Holland
2072-80 (1989) (http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/reprint/63/5/2072)

* "What is a quasispecies?" by M.A. Nowak, Trends in Ecology and
Evolution 7, 118-121 (1992)
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6VJ1-4B0P9VX-3M-1&_cdi=6081&_user=10&_orig=browse&_coverDate=04%2F30%2F1992&_sk=999929995&view=c&wchp=dGLzVzz-zSkzS&md5=afe8689a9981d7b471efa33fdc21f768&ie=/sdarticle.pdf
<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6VJ1-4B0P9VX-3M-1&_cdi=6081&_user=10&_orig=browse&_coverDate=04%2F30%2F1992&_sk=999929995&view=c&wchp=dGLzVzz-zSkzS&md5=afe8689a9981d7b471efa33fdc21f768&ie=/sdarticle.pdf>).

We will meet at 2:45 pm in Bill's office (YH3047).

Best,

Peter