In silico predicted robustness of viroids RNA secondary structures. I. The effect of single mutations

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1427-1436

  Sanjuán, Rafael ^a   Forment, Javier ^a   Elena, Santiago F ^a  

^a Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación   (Spain)

Author keywords

Mutational robustness; Neutrality; Plant pathogens; RNA folding; Viroids

Indexed keywords

SINGLE STRANDED RNA; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; COVALENT BOND; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EVOLUTION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; RNA FOLDING; RNA STRUCTURE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THERMODYNAMICS; VIRAL PLANT DISEASE; VIROID; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; GENOME, VIRAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT VIRUSES; POINT MUTATION; RNA; RNA, VIRAL; THERMODYNAMICS; VIROIDS;

VIROIDS;

EID: 33745614283     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msl005     Document Type: Article

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