Article
A revised evolutionary history of hepatitis B virus (HBV).
Journal of molecular evolution - 1 Jun 2002
Fares Mario Ali, Holmes Edward C
Abstract excerpt
Previous studies of the evolutionary history of hepatitis B virus (HBV) have been compromised by intergenotype recombination and complex patterns of nucleotide substitution, perhaps caused by differential selection pressures. We examined the phylogenetic distribution of recombination events among human HBV genotypes and found that genotypes A plus D, and genotypes B plus C, had distinct patterns of recombination...
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