Contact-number-driven virus evolution: a multi-level modeling framework for the evolution of acute or persistent RNA virus infection
J. Sunagawa, R. Komorizono, W. Hart, R. Thompson, A. Makino, K. Tomonaga, S. Iwami, R. Yamaguchi
This study models virus evolution under different contact histories, finding that high-contact environments favor acute infections while low-contact environments favor persistent infections.
bioRxiv · Dec 22, 2022Evolutionary Biology