Rates of evolutionary change in viruses: patterns and determinants.
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...However, replication fidelity is but one of several variables that affect viral population diversity (Duffy et al., 2008; Moya et al., 2000)....
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...However, based on observations that some ssDNA viruses can evolve rapidly, it was recently suggested that they may have mutation rates close to those of RNA viruses (32)....
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...The authors set out to examine the ability of current inference tools to estimate relatively low evolutionary rates such as those thought to commonly characterize dsDNA viruses (Duffy et al. 2008)....
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...Most exogenous viruses are characterized by extremely rapid substitution rates that are often three to six orders of magnitude faster than those of their hos...
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...Although there is a rich literature detailing how the patterns and processes of mutation differ among species, the biochemical and evolutionary determinants of mutation rate remain poorly understood in all but a few organism...
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...The elevated rate of nucleotide substitution within hosts might be because this part of the viral life cycle is dominated by the positive selection of amino-acid changes that facilitate immune escap...
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