How should one refer to intrahost HIV diversity? I've always used "quasispecies" but I recall reading that this has a specific evolutionary connotations that doesn't match that of HIV.
Perhaps @ElEarlyBird or @K_G_Andersen can straighten me out here?
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*I* would do that. I'm co-authoring a paper and they've included this term. I'm looking for the underlying reason why one should avoid the term so as to hopefully convince them not to include it.
You should avoid using it because @edwardcholmes says so - and Eddie knows best 
. Here's a good little commentary outlining some of the considerations: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20493194
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Yes,
@edwardcholmes knows best! Thanks for pointing me in the right direction! (What is wrong with my brain that I didn't think to @ him in the original tweet?) -
‘Intra-host diversity’ is good. For a quasispecies you need to prove that selection acts on the population as a whole and there is zero evidence for that in HIV, nor in any virus in nature as I can tell
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