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Viruses, Volume 16, Issue 7 (July 2024) – 178 articles

Cover Story (view full-size image): We use computational models to explain why plus, minus and double-strand RNA viruses can be successful in different circumstances. For viruses that do not incorporate a polymerase in the capsid, virions containing minus strands are not infectious. Packaging only plus strands is advantageous if RNAs are in excess over capsid proteins. Transmission of only plus strands is advantageous unless the multiplicity of infection is very high. If double strands are transmitted, it is advantageous to eliminate minus-strand transcription and produce only single plus strands inside the cell. Minus-strand virions are infectious if a polymerase is encapsulated, but transmission of only minus strands is advantageous only if there are separate replicable and translatable plus strands (as is true for real minus-strand viruses). View this paper
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