Monkeypox may not mutate as fast as coronaviruses, but it can still adapt to new hosts - Scroll.in
6/28/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 10 months ago
by Connor Bamford, The Conversation
by Connor Bamford, The Conversation
Although all viruses can evolve rapidly due to their vast population sizes and rapid generation times, RNA viruses change faster than DNA ones.
The recent outbreak of the monkeypox virus has called into question the capabilities of these kinds of large DNA viruses to evolve, adapt and change their biology. Compared with small RNA viruses su… [+4201 chars]
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