Why are viral genomes so fragile? The bottleneck hypothesis

• Nono S. C. Merleau,

  Roles Investigation, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3150-6250

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• Sophie Pénisson,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Université Paris Est Créteil, CNRS, LAMA, Creteil, France, Université Gustave Eiffel, LAMA, Marne-la-Vallée, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6268-3842

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• Philip J. Gerrish,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

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• Santiago F. Elena,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Instituto de Biología Integrativa de Sistemas (I2SysBio), CSIC-Universitat de València, València, Spain, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8249-5593

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• Matteo Smerlak

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: smerlak@mis.mpg.de

  Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0844-8868

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