Viruses and the Evolution of the Immune System Using Fitness Landscapes

Fitness landscapes are the perfect way to describe how viruses from chronic or persistent infections evade the host immune system's repeated efforts to neutralize them. University of california, san francisco, virologist raoul and dino pavlovsky: By sketching out fitness landscapes, researchers can try to figure out why some variants are transmitted far more frequently than others. How much to renonce ofputation, which is also called robustness to mutations, contribute to the volutionaf a virus.