Natural selection for nucleotide usage at synonymous and nonsynonymous sites in influenza A virus genes

Journal of Virology

Volumn 82, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 4938-4945

  Kryazhimskiy, Sergey ^a,b   Bazykin, Georgii A ^a,c   Dushoff, Jonathan ^a,d  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; NATURAL SELECTION; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUBSTITUTION REACTION; VIRUS GENE; BIOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

INFLUENZA A VIRUS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, VIRAL; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION (GENETICS); VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 43249098166     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.02415-07     Document Type: Article

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