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Thu, 8 Mar 2018 13:07:09 -0500
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Re: Viability of DWV virus off its host?
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> Is it possible that those irradiated viruses that "appear to be unaffected" can actually be mutated into a more virulent strain?

> Of course this is possible.  Does anything have a probability of 0.0?  Possible is the entirely wrong question to ask.  A more meaningful question would be what is the probability of a more virulent strain being produced by radiation? 

Actually, I'd consider this from the virus side. ssRNA viruses like DWV mutate faster than you can sneeze, generating quasispecies by the truckload. It's much more likely that the resistant strain was generated prior to the irradiation event and simply represented a mutation that was able to survive the assault.

S

Skillman, NJ

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