Strong Epistatic Selection on the RNA Secondary Structure of HIV

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Assis, Raquel ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISTASIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOMICS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; BASE PAIRING; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; VIROLOGY;

BASE PAIRING; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 84907587066     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004363     Document Type: Article

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