2 papers
q-bio.PE2026
Lag-Induced Critical Transitions to Extinction in Replicating Systems
Edward A. Turner, Francisco Crespo, Joan Gimeno +3
Replicating systems sustained by error-prone enzymatic amplification can undergo critical transitions between persistence and extinction. In RNA viruses, such transitions are class…
math.DS2024
Quasineutral multistability in an epidemiological-like model for defective-helper betacoronavirus infection in cell cultures
Juan C. Muñoz-Sánchez, J. Tomás Lázaro, Julia Hillung +3
It is well known that, during replication, RNA viruses spontaneously generate defective viral genomes (DVGs). DVGs are unable to complete an infectious cycle autonomously, and depe…