Radical amino acid change versus positive selection in the evolution of viral envelope proteins

Gene

Volumn 385, Issue , 2006, Pages 83-88

  Hanada, Kousuke ^a   Gojobori, Takashi ^b   Li, Wen Hsiung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conservative change; Positive selection; Radical change; RNA virus; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA VIRUS; VIRUS STRAIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; DNA, VIRAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HEPACIVIRUS; MODELS, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 34548203941     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2006.06.029     Document Type: Article

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