Periodic Reporting for period 2 - RNAVirFitness (The dark side of evolution: the deleterious mutational landscape of RNA viruses)

Viruses evolve extremely rapidly, as exemplified amply in the ongoing SARS-Coronavirus-2 pandemic. New variants are created in viruses due to two forces: (i) erroneous copying of the genetic material of viruses, leading to the creation of mutations, and (ii) selection that...