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From Darwinism to the Modern Age: How Evolutionary Paradigms Shape the Understanding of Host-Virus Coevolutionary Processes – A Review

Version 1 : Received: 16 May 2023 / Approved: 17 May 2023 / Online: 17 May 2023 (04:58:34 CEST)
Version 2 : Received: 12 September 2023 / Approved: 13 September 2023 / Online: 14 September 2023 (09:07:16 CEST)

How to cite: Feronato, S.G.; Silveira, G.F. From Darwinism to the Modern Age: How Evolutionary Paradigms Shape the Understanding of Host-Virus Coevolutionary Processes – A Review. Preprints 2023, 2023051188. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202305.1188.v2 Feronato, S.G.; Silveira, G.F. From Darwinism to the Modern Age: How Evolutionary Paradigms Shape the Understanding of Host-Virus Coevolutionary Processes – A Review. Preprints 2023, 2023051188. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202305.1188.v2

Abstract

Synthesizing evolution in the post-Darwinan era has been a very challenging endeavor, both because of the great number of perspectives regarding the same natural phenomena and because of the growing technology involving mapping the origin of novelties and selection of biological variation that surpass Darwin’s original proposal of evolution by means of natural selection. Since 1859 a lot has changed, and many have presented new perspectives on evolution; either dismissing, correcting or incorporating Darwin’s ideas. This review aims to approach these different theories focusing on virus host interactions and descriptions of host-switching events in 3 different viral lineages, as well as their implications on the understanding of host-switching phenomena itself.

Keywords

evolution; pos-Darwin; virology

Subject

Biology and Life Sciences, Virology

Comments (1)

Comment 1
Received: 14 September 2023
Commenter: Guilherme Silveira
Commenter's Conflict of Interests: Author
Comment: The updated version of this preprint includes some basic typing error corrections as well as the addition of an Introduction - where we argument the importance of treating viruses as parasites in terms of symbiosis - and a 9th topic where we briefly discuss the emergence of a new interaction in terms of the host population information space. Although the modern understanding of host-pathogen interactions discusses the parasite’s phenotypic alterations during the interaction consolidation, we needed to add to the discussion the same level of complexity involving the other symbiont in the interaction. Having this complexity in mind shows how both symbionts are affected by the interaction, even if in different intensities.
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