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If we could rewind the tape of evolution and play it again, would it turn out to be similar to or different from what we know? Obviously, this key question can only be addressed by fragmentary experimental approaches. Twenty-two years ago, we described the establishment of BHK-21 cells persistently infected with foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV), a system that displayed as its major biological feature a coevolution of the cells and the resident virus in the course of persistence. Now we report the establishment of two persistently infected cell lines in parallel, starting with the same clones of FMDV and BHK-21 cells used 22 years ago. We have asked whether the evolution of the two newly established cell lines and of the earlier cell line would be similar or different. The main conclusions of the study are: (i) the basic behaviour characterized by virus–cell coevolution is similar in the three carrier cell lines, despite differences in some genetic alterations of FMDV; (ii) a strikingly parallel behaviour has been observed with the two newly established cell lines passaged in parallel, unveiling a deterministic virus behaviour during persistence; and (iii) selective RT-PCR amplifications have detected imbalances in the proportion of positive- versus negative-strand viral RNA, mediated by both viral and cellular factors. The results confirm coevolution of cells and virus as a major and reproducible feature of FMDV persistence in cell culture, and suggest that rapidly evolving viruses may constitute adequate test systems to probe the influence of historical contingency on evolutionary events.

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