Inferring the distribution of fitness effects in patient-sampled and experimental virus populations: two case studies.

ABSTRACT: We here propose an analysis pipeline for inferring the distribution of fitness effects (DFE) from either patient-sampled or experimentally-evolved viral populations, that explicitly accounts for non-Wright-Fisher and non-equilibrium population dynamics inherent to pathogens. We examine the performance of this approach via extensive power and performance analyses, and highlight two illustrative applications - one from an experimentally-passaged RNA virus, and the other from a clinically-sampled DNA virus. Finally, we discuss how such DFE inference may shed light on major research questions in virus evolution, ranging from a quantification of the population genetic processes governing genome size, to the role of Hill-Robertson interference in dictating adaptive outcomes, to the potential des

SUBMITTER: Morales-Arce AY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8728706 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature