The Evolution of Infectious Diseases with Justin Meyer: Lecture 10 - Interpreting Evolutionary Process from DNA: Molecular Clocks and dN/dS Ratios

5/5/2020; 76 minutes

UC San Diego professor of biology Justin Meyer, who specializes in infectious disease research presents his course The Evolution of Infectious Diseases with special attention to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the COVID-19 disease and its pandemic spread throughout the world. In this lecture he shows how evolutionary changes in infectious agents can be traced through careful analysis of DNA sequences. Recorded on 04/30/2020. (#35826)

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