Kai Kupferschmidt on Nostr: In theory there is a shortcut for the virus to acquire a lot of changes at once and ...
In theory there is a shortcut for the virus to acquire a lot of changes at once and that is reassortment: The influenza genome is made up of 8 separate segments and when two different viruses infect the same cell they can get reshuffled like two decks of cards coming together.
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