Talk:Viral evolution

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I have been wondering how to best call and introduce this article. Many of the people I work with would say they are working in the field 'virus evolution'. Therefore, I somehow think this is a better title than 'evolution of viruses' or something similar. However, it is hard to come up with a good first sentence in which the phrase 'virus evolution' appears and can be made bold. Wilke 02:57, 2 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Yep, I had the same problem, what I put there was pretty lame, I admit, but it was a start. Should this article be about the entity that is virus evolution, or an academic field "virus evolution"? Or both? --Lexor 03:11, 2 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I will think about this some more. Maybe the best strategy is to write some more contents first, and then think about what the article actually describes, and how it should be called.Wilke 03:33, 2 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I think that the co-evolution of viruses and their host should be covered together in this page. Each is constantly evolving in a "viral-host arms race". Dr d12 19:48, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

This is only true when the virus is harmful to the host (or vice-versa). If a virus is beneficial, or neutral, then the rules are different. I just want to challenge the assumption that all viruses result in reduced host fitness. Scray (talk) 03:56, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

I do agree with the proposal to move/merge the content from Intra-host evolution and Inter-host evolution to this page. Would provide better context, and the comparison between the two is key to understanding. Scray (talk) 04:01, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

I've merged these two articles into Viral evolution --Lox (t,c) 09:41, 7 January 2008 (UTC)