Theoretical study about the variability of the genome of foot-and-mouth disease viruses.

doi:10.1016/0020-711x(92)90265-3

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Theoretical study about the variability of the genome of foot-and-mouth disease viruses.

The International journal of biochemistry - 1 Feb 1992

Franco R, Centelles J J

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1. The possibilities of change in amino acids of a protein are discussed in terms of a point mutation. 2. Whereas Met and Trp are forced to change due to a point mutation, other amino acids (Ala, Arg, Gly, Leu, Pro and Val) have a probability of 1/3 to survive in the sequence. 3. On basis of thes...

Topics

Aphthovirus
Biological Evolution
Codon
Genetic Variation
Genome, Viral
Mutation
RNA, Viral
Species Specificity

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