A phylogenetic method for detecting positive epistasis in gene sequences and its application to RNA virus evolution

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1724-1730

  Shapiro, Beth ^a   Rambaut, Andrew ^a   Pybus, Oliver G ^a   Holmes, Edward C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coevolution; Epistasis; Phylogenetics; RNA viruses; Viral evolution

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC EPISTASIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; RNA VIRUS; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS RECOMBINANT;

DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, VIRAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA VIRUSES;

RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 33748170576     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msl037     Document Type: Article

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