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error catastrophe: a standalone construct

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Virology

pushing a virus's mutation rate past a threshold destroys the information in its population and ends replication.

In virology, error catastrophe refers to pushing a virus's mutation rate past a threshold destroys the information in its population and ends replication. This meaning comes from Eigen (2002) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[1]

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References

  1. Eigen, M. (2002). Error catastrophe and antiviral strategy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 99(21), 13374-13376. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.212514799

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