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Characterization of the mutant spectra of a fish RNA virus within individual hosts during natural infections Characterization of the mutant spectra of a fish RNA virus within individual hosts during natural infections

Infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV) is an RNA virus that causes significant mortalities of salmonids in the Pacific Northwest of North America. RNA virus populations typically contain genetic variants that form a heterogeneous virus pool, referred to as a quasispecies or mutant spectrum. This study characterized the mutant spectra of IHNV populations within individual fish...
Authors
Eveline J. Emmenegger, Ryan M. Troyer, Gael Kurath

Growth models and the expected distribution of fluctuating asymmetry Growth models and the expected distribution of fluctuating asymmetry

Multiplicative error accounts for much of the size-scaling and leptokurtosis in fluctuating asymmetry. It arises when growth involves the addition of tissue to that which is already present. Such errors are lognormally distributed. The distribution of the difference between two lognormal variates is leptokurtic. If those two variates are correlated, then the asymmetry variance will scale...
Authors
John H. Graham, Kunio Shimizu, John M. Emlen, D. Carl Freeman, John Merkel
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