Noise-induced bistability in the quasi-neutral coexistence of viral RNAs under different replication modes

Journal of the Royal Society, Interface
Josep SardanyésTomás Alarcón

Abstract

Evolutionary and dynamical investigations into real viral populations indicate that RNA replication can range between the two extremes represented by so-called 'stamping machine replication' (SMR) and 'geometric replication' (GR). The impact of asymmetries in replication for single-stranded (+) sense RNA viruses has been mainly studied with deterministic models. However, viral replication should be better described by including stochasticity, as the cell infection process is typically initiated with a very small number of RNA macromolecules, and thus largely influenced by intrinsic noise. Under appropriate conditions, deterministic theoretical descriptions of viral RNA replication predict a quasi-neutral coexistence scenario, with a line of fixed points involving different strands' equilibrium ratios depending on the initial conditions. Recent research into the quasi-neutral coexistence in two competing populations reveals that stochastic fluctuations fundamentally alter the mean-field scenario, and one of the two species outcompetes the other. In this article, we study this phenomenon for viral RNA replication modes by means of stochastic simulations and a diffusion approximation. Our results reveal that noise has a strong imp...Continue Reading

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