Geoghegan and Holmes describe the history of evolutionary ideas in the study of viruses,
showing that two different approaches to studying virus evolution—the comparative and the …

RNA viruses are the main agents of emerging disease. To understand how RNA viruses are
able to jump species boundaries and spread in new hosts it is essential to determine the …

RNA viruses are unique in their evolutionary capacity, exhibiting high mutation rates and
frequent recombination. They rapidly adapt to environmental changes, such as shifts in …

Viruses represent a serious problem faced by human and veterinary medicine and
agronomy. New viruses are constantly emerging while old ones evolve and challenge the …

The study of virus evolution has historically been concerned with disease and its emergence
and has not been integrated into the general study of evolution. Yet viruses dominate our …

In their search to understand the evolution of biological complexity, John Maynard Smith and
Eörs Szathmáry put forward the notion of major evolutionary transitions as those in which …

Although differing rates of environmental turnover should be consequential for the dynamics
of adaptive change, this idea has been rarely examined outside of theory. In particular, the …

RNA viruses are notorious for rapidly generating genetically diverse populations during a
single replication cycle, and the implications of this mutant population, often referred to as …

Despite advances in understanding the patterns and processes of microevolution in RNA
viruses, little is known about the determinants of viral diversification at the macroevolutionary …

The physical and biological worlds, and our knowledge of them, are evolving constantly.
Viruses, being totally dependent on the cell for replication, their evolution must have been …