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TWiEVO 71: Faster than a speeding coronavirus

This Week in Evolution

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Mutation Rate and Proof Reading in Viruses

The word mutation rate, for me, means something different than it does in this paper. There's all these proteins that we deploy, the apobecks, which actually go in and are monkeying around with the literally causing mutations. And there's some evidence of that for sars too as welland so how do you the authors do point to that?

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