Nels and Vincent discuss an analysis of the drivers of evolution of SARS-CoV-2 during chronic infections, indicating that a tradeoff exists between antibody evasion and fitness.
TWiEVO 73: With a little help from your hosts
- December 28, 2021
- Tagged as: coronavirus, COVID-19, evolution, fitness, natural selection, Omicron, pandemic, RNA insertion, SARS-CoV-2
Nels and Vincent review three aspects of SARS-CoV-2: phylogenetics of Omicron, a two-step fitness selection for SARS-CoV-2 variants, and putative RNA insertions from host genomes.
Nels and Vincent speak with Hopi Hoekstra about her career and the work of her laboratory on developmental mechanisms of stripe patterns in rodents.