3 papers
q-bio.PE2026
Bacteriophage Q: Six Decades at the Frontier of Molecular and Viral Evolution
Ester Lázaro, Susanna Manrubia
Bacteriophage Q, first isolated in 1961, has served for more than six decades as a model system for molecular and viral evolution. The development of cell-free replication syste…
q-bio.PE2026
Shared quasispecies architecture in experimental and natural RNA virus populations
Samuel Martínez-Alcalá, Iker Atienza-Diez, Pilar Somovilla +5
RNA viruses form genetically diverse populations structured as mutant spectra, or quasispecies, whose internal organization influences their evolutionary and adaptive dynamics. Whi…
q-bio.PE2024
Hierarchical genotype networks and incipient ecological speciation in Q phage quasispecies
Luis F Seoane, Henry Secaira-Morocho, Ester Lázaro +1
Understanding how viral mutant spectra organize and explore genotype space is essential for unraveling the mechanisms driving evolution at the finest scale. Here we use deep-sequen…