The not-so-infinite malleability of RNA viruses: Viral and cellular determinants of RNA virus mutation rates

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Everett Clinton Smith

* E-mail: ecsmith@sewanee.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Sewanee: The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, United States of America

The author has declared that no competing interests exist.

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