Compensatory evolution in RNA secondary structures increases substitution rate variation among sites

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1778-1787

  Knies, Jennifer L ^a,b,d   Dang, Kristen K ^b   Vision, Todd J ^a   Hoffman, Noah G ^a,c   Swanstrom, Ronald ^a   Burch, Christina L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Compensatory evolution; Molecular evolution; RNA secondary structure; Transition transversion ratio

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; RETROVIRUS; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SUBSTITUTION REACTION; VIRUS GENOME;

BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CYTOSINE DEAMINASE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, ENV; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 47649093396     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msn130     Document Type: Article

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