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Evidence for Positive Selection in Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Capsid Genes From Field Isolates
1 Jan 2001
Abstract excerpt
The nature of selection on capsid genes of foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) was characterized by examining the ratio of nonsynonymous to synonymous substitutions in 11 data sets of sequences obtained from six different serotypes of FMDV. Using a method of analysis that assigns each codon position to one of a number of estimated values of nonsynonymous to synonymous ratio, significant evidence of positive...
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