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Viruses: Friends or foes.

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2021-10-11

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Michan, Carmen
Michan-Doña, Alfredo

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Wiley
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Biological evolution can be defined as the change of inherited traits over successive generations in populations. Evolution is also related to adaptation, the process by which altered organisms become better suited for survival in specific ecological habitats. Thus, the instability of the environment conditions the mechanism of adaptation, the so-called r/k strategies. ‘r’ populations are related to unpredictable environments and produce many offspring, thus have more options of mutations, whereas ‘k’ strategists live in more stable niches and have only a few descendants.

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Viruses
Mutation
Biochemical Phenomena

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Fenómenos bioquímicos
Mutación
Virus

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Área de Gestión Sanitaria de Jerez, Costa Noroeste y Sierra de Cádiz, Ecosystem, Biological Evolution

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Michán C, Michán-Doña A. Viruses: Friends or foes. Microb Biotechnol. 2022 Jan;15(1):88-90