Talk:Reassortment

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[edit] Exchange

Is it really an exchange (i.e. a two way street), or should it be a passing of genetic material? Rich Farmbrough. 20:16, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Yes, it is really an exchange. You have a cell in which two different strains have all their genentic material making huge numbers of copies of themselves and self assembling into virons. How can this be anything other than "exchange"? It's not like either of the two strains is actively keeping track of its multiplying RNA strands in the inter-cellular soup of componets. I'm not aware of any factors that cause one strain to self assemble with the other's RNA and not vice-versa. WAS 4.250 21:38, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fleshing out some social implications of reassortment

This article has a lot of promise, and it would be great to see it get technical while preserving readability by non-scientists. My edit added content from a Web site and cited the source. I hope others can add some more clarification, along with details... Wipfeln 19:45, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

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