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Natural selection and neutral mutations through the lens of viruses

2022-10-10

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The Neutral Theory and the Modern Synthesis, a modified version of Darwin’s theory, have been arguing for decades about the influence of natural selection on molecular evolution 1-10 . Here we elucidate through the lens of viruses that a frequently used method 11-17 employing the ratio of nonsynonymous versus synonymous substitution rates has dramatically underestimated the influence of natural selection on mole...

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Literature Corpus work: 1dd607ca-eecd-5ac8-bc56-d4dc47020a20
DOI: 10.1101/2022.10.10.511542

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