Host range mutant

... at a pace that often makes their DNA-based hosts ' evolution look glacial by comparison. Over ... by Cooper et al. (1974) which showed that mutants of poliovirus could be mapped by recombination ... that the population structure in viruses could range from completely clonal, if no recombination ...

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... with the activity of mobile elements. Mutant phenotypes range from subtle changes in tissue specificity to dramatic ... possible coadaptations between elements and their hosts that appear to have evolved because of selection to ...

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... bacteria when injected into infected hosts. A single E. coli cell injected with a single ... that phages have a very narrow host range [27], success rates of 80-95% have been reported ... through the circulations of mice to isolate mutants that resist sequestration. This selection ...

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