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Viral quasispecies
Originally used to model the evolution of the first macromolecules on earth , the quasispecies concept has been applied to populations of a virus within its host [1]. The quasispecies model is deemed to be relevant to RNA viruses because they have high mutation rates in the order of one per round of replication [2], and viral populations, while not infinite, are extremely large.
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