A large variation in the rates of synonymous substitution for RNA viruses and its relationship to a diversity of viral infection and transmission modes

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1074-1080

  Hanada, Kousuke ^a   Suzuki, Yoshiyuki ^a   Gojobori, Takashi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Evolution; Infection mode; Replication frequency; RNA virus; Synonymous substitution rate; Transmission mode

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; ERROR; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA REPLICATION; RNA VIRUS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS MUTANT; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

DATABASES, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; RNA VIRUSES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS); VIRUS REPLICATION;

RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 2442658990     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh109     Document Type: Article

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