Considering the use of the terms strain and adaptation in prion research

Evolutionary biologists and disease biologists use the terms strain and adaptation in Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) research in different ways. In evolutionary biology, a strain is a nascent genetic lineage that can be described by a genealogy, and a phylogenetic nomenclature constructed to reflect...

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Main Author: Robert M. Zink
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-04-01
Series:Heliyon
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240584402100904X