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Chikungunya virus 3' untranslated region: adaptation to mosquitoes and a population bottleneck as major evolutionary forces.
PLoS pathogens - 1 Jan 2013
Chen Rubing, Wang Eryu, Tsetsarkin Konstantin A, Weaver Scott C
Abstract excerpt
The 3' untranslated genome region (UTR) of arthropod-borne viruses is characterized by enriched direct repeats (DRs) and stem-loop structures. Despite many years of theoretical and experimental study, on-going positive selection on the 3'UTR had never been observed in 'real-time,' and the role of the arbovirus 3'UTR remains poorly understood. We observed a lineage-specific 3'UTR sequence pattern in all available...
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