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Even Adaptable Viruses Have Trouble Surviving Erratic Temperatures

By Guest PostFebruary 6, 2013Health8 degree c, adaptable viruses, barry alto, brian r wasik, climate change, climate change models, common cold, environmental change, erratic temperatures, evolutionarily nimble, fitness problem, historic examples, human immunity, nadya m morales, paul turner, rapid temperature fluctuations, rna virus, strains of influenza, sudden temperature changes, temperature fluctuations, university of florida, yale university

Viruses such as those that cause the common cold are some of the most hardy and adaptable things on earth, but even they have trouble surviving the unpredictable and sudden temperature changes predicted by climate change models.

A simple RNA virus subjected to random temperature fluctuations within a window of just 8 degree C showed inability to adapt to this environmental change, according to research by Yale University and University of Florida scientists published Jan. 31 in the journal Evolution. (more…)

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Even Adaptable Viruses Have Trouble Surviving Erratic Temperatures