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KIN SELECTION IN VIRUSES

Altruism in a virus

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A recent study finds that viruses cooperate altruistically to overcome innate host immunity and that this can be explained in the same way we explain altruism between animals.

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Fig. 1: Blocking interferon release indicates altruistic cooperation in a virus.

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