HIV competition dynamics over sexual networks: first comer advantage conserves founder effects.

Outside Africa, the global phylogeography of HIV is characterized by compartmentalized local epidemics that are typically dominated by a single subtype, which indicates strong founder effects. We hypothesized that the competition of viral strains at the epidemic level may involve an advantage of the...

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Main Authors: Bence Ferdinandy, Enys Mones, Tamás Vicsek, Viktor Müller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-02-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004093&type=printable