Investigating selection on viruses: a statistical alignment approach.
BACKGROUND: Two problems complicate the study of selection in viral genomes: Firstly, the presence of genes in overlapping reading frames implies that selection in one reading frame can bias our estimates of neutral mutation rates in another reading frame. Secondly, the high mutation rates we are li...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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BioMed Central
2008
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