Quasispecies: From Theory to Experimental Systems

1. What Is a Quasispecies? Historical Origins and Current Scope
Esteban Domingo, Peter Schuster

2. The Nucleation of Semantic Information in Prebiotic Matter
Bernd-Olaf Küppers

3. Evolution of RNA-Based Networks
Peter F. Stadler

4. Quasispecies on Fitness Landscapes
Peter Schuster

5. Mathematical Models of Quasi-Species Theory and Exact Results for the Dynamics
David B. Saakian, Chin-Kun Hu

6. Theoretical Models of Generalized Quasispecies
Nathaniel Wagner, Yoav Atsmon-Raz, Gonen Ashkenasy

7. Theories of Lethal Mutagenesis: From Error Catastrophe to Lethal Defection
Héctor Tejero, Francisco Montero, Juan Carlos Nuño

8. Estimating Fitness of Viral Quasispecies from Next-Generation Sequencing Data
David Seifert, Niko Beerenwinkel

9. Getting to Know Viral Evolutionary Strategies: Towards the Next Generation of Quasispecies Models
Susanna Manrubia, Ester Lázaro

10. Cooperative Interaction Within RNA Virus Mutant Spectra
Yuta Shirogane, Shumpei Watanabe, Yusuke Yanagi

11. Arenavirus Quasispecies and Their Biological Implications
Ana Grande-Pérez, Veronica Martin, Hector Moreno, Juan C. Torre

12. Models of Viral Population Dynamics
Pranesh Padmanabhan, Narendra M. Dixit

13. Fidelity Variants and RNA Quasispecies
Antonio V. Bordería, Kathryn Rozen-Gagnon, Marco Vignuzzi

14. Antiviral Strategies Based on Lethal Mutagenesis and Error Threshold
Celia Perales, Esteban Domingo

Keywords: Biomedicine, Virology, Human Genetics, Immunology