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An adaptive walk by human immunodeficiency virus type 1 through a fluctuating fitness landscape.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Apr 2010
da Silva Jack
Abstract excerpt
The mutational landscape model of adaptive sequence evolution has been used to explain an unexpected strong positive linear relationship between marginal fitness and mean site-specific amino acid frequency in the functionally important HIV-1 gp120 V3 protein region. The model predicts a positive linear relationship between the probability that a particular beneficial allele, among several, is the next to spread...
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