The fitness effects of synonymous mutations in DNA and RNA viruses

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 17-20

  Cuevas, José M ^a   Domingo Calap, Pilar ^a   Sanjuán, Rafael ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c Centro Superior de Investigacion en Salud Publica CSISP   (Spain)

Author keywords

Codon usage bias; DNA virus; Evolution; Mutational fitness effects; Mutational robustness; Nonsynonymous substitutions; RNA structure; RNA virus; Selection; Silent substitutions; Site directed mutagenesis; Synonymous substitutions

Indexed keywords

SINGLE STRANDED DNA; SINGLE STRANDED RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE PHI X 174; CODON; DNA VIRUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA VIRUS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SUBSTITUTION LINE; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS MUTATION;

BACTERIOPHAGES; CODON; DNA VIRUSES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC FITNESS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; RNA VIRUSES; SELECTION, GENETIC;

DNA VIRUSES; RNA VIRUSES; SSDNA VIRUSES;

EID: 84861312619     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msr179     Document Type: Article

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