Punctuated evolution of myxoma virus: rapid and disjunct evolution of a recent viral lineage in Australia
P. J. Kerr, J.-S. Eden, F. Di Giallonardo, D. Peacock, J. Liu, T. Strive, A. F. Read, E. C. Holmes
This paper shows that Myxoma virus in Australia experienced a sudden evolutionary change with a faster mutation rate and disrupted clock-like evolution between 1996 and 2012, likely due to environmental changes affecting rabbit populations.
bioRxiv · Nov 8, 2018Evolutionary Biology