《Nature,4月6日,Considering mutational meltdown as a potential SARS-CoV-2 treatment strategy》

  • 来源专题:COVID-19科研动态监测
  • 编译者: zhangmin
  • 发布时间:2020-04-07
  • Considering mutational meltdown as a potential SARS-CoV-2 treatment strategy

    Jeffrey D. Jensen & Michael Lynch

    Heredity (2020)

    With the rapid global spread of SARS-CoV-2, tremendous efforts have been focused upon potential treatment strategies (Li and De Clercq 2020). Evolutionary theory has an important role to play in this search, and we here discuss one potentially under-appreciated research avenue.

  • 原文来源:https://www.nature.com/articles/s41437-020-0314-z
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